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"Amidde saugh I Hate sonde, That for hir wrathe, ire, and onde, Semed to been a moveresse..."

"Amidde saugh I Hate sonde, That for hir wrathe, ire, and onde, Semed to been a moveresse..."
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"Amidde saugh I Hate sonde, That for hir wrathe, ire, and onde, Semed to been a moveresse..."

from: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer (P. 244) -  1958
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"Amidde saugh I Hate stonde, That for hir wrathe, ire, and onde, Semed to been a moveresse, An angry wight, a chideresse; And ful of gyle, and fel corage, By semblaunt was that ilke image." (p. 242) "An image of another entayle, Felonye A lift half, was hir faste by; Hir name above hir heed saugh I, And she was called Felonye. Another image, that Vilanye Ycleped was, saugh I and fond Upon the walle on hir right hond. Vilanye was lyk somdel That other image; and, trusteth wel, She semed a wikked creature." (p. 243)