Full strait y-tied, and shoes full moist 159 and new. Bold was her face, and fair and red of hue. She was a worthy woman all her live, Husbands at the church door had she had five, Withouten other company in youth; But thereof needeth not to speak as nouth. 160 And thrice had she been at Jerusalem; She haddë passed many a strangë stream; At Rome she had been, and at Bologne, 161 In Galice at Saint James, 162 and at Cologne; She coudë 163 much of wand’ring by the way. Gat-toothed 164 was she, soothly for to say. Upon an ambler easily she sat, Y-wimpled well, and on her head an hat

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