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141 With many riche portraitures;
142 And bothe the ymages and the peyntures
143 Gan I biholde bysyly.
144 And I wole telle you, redyly,
145 Of thilk ymages the semblaunce,
146 As fer as I have in remembraunce.
147 Amyd saugh I a hate stonde,
148 That for hir wrathe, yre, and onde,
149 Semede to ben an Mynoresse,
150 An angry wight, a chideresse;
151 And ful of gyle, and felle corage,
152 By semblaunt was that ilk ymage.
153 And she was no thyng wel Arraied,
154 But lyk a wode woman Afraied;
155 ffrounced foule was hir visage,
156 And grennyng for dispitous rage;
157 Hir nose snorted up for tene.
158 fful hidous was she forto sene,
159 fful foule and rusty was she, this.
160 Hir heed writhen was, y wis,
161 fful grymly with a greet towayle.
162 An ymage of another entayle,
163 A lyft half, was hir by;
164 Hir name above hir heed saugh I,
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