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Robbins Library Digital Projects > Visualizing Chaucer > The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer > "Hir lemman was bisyde alway, In swich a gyse, that he hir kiste..."

"Hir lemman was bisyde alway, In swich a gyse, that he hir kiste..."

"Hir lemman was bisyde alway, In swich a gyse, that he hir kiste..."
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"Hir lemman was bisyde alway, In swich a gyse, that he hir kiste..."

by: Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Artist) from: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer (P. 257) -  1958
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"Hir lemman was bisyde alway, In swich a gyse, that he hir kiste At alle tymes that him liste, That al the daunce mighte it see; They make no force of privetee; For who spak of hem yvel or wel, They were ashamed never a del, But men mighte seen hem kisse there, As it two yonge douves were. For yong was thilke bachelere, Of beaute wot I noon his pere; And he was right of swich an age As Youthe his leef, and swich corage. The lusty folk thus daunced there, And also other that with hem were, That weren alle of hir meynee; Ful hende folk, and wys, and free, And folk of fair port, trewely, Ther weren alle comunly." (p. 256)