| | A forster was he sothly as I gesse | |
| | T | Here was also a nonne a prioresse | |
| | That of hir smylynge was simpil & koy | |
| 120 | Here grettest oth was be seynt loy | |
| | And she was clepid dame Eglentyn | |
| | Ful wel she song seruise diuine | |
| | Entoyned in hir voys ful semely | |
| | And frensh she spak ful fetously | |
| 125 | Aftir the scole of stratforde at the bowe | |
| | For frensh of Paris was to hir vnknowe | |
| | At mete wel taught was she with al | |
| | She lete no morsel fro hir lippis fal | |
| | Ne wete hire fingres in hir sauce depe | |
| 130 | Wel coude she cary a morsel of mete | |
| | That no drope fil on hir brest | |
| | In curtesie was set ful mykil hir lest | |
| | Hir ouerlippe wiped she so clene | |
| | That in hir cup ther was no ferthyng sene | |
| 135 | Of grece whan she hadde dronke her draught | |
| | Ful semely aftir hir mete she raught | |
| | And sikirly she was of greet disport | |
| | Of plesaunce and amyable of port | |
| | And peyned here to countrefete chiere | |
| 140 | Of courte to be statly of manere | |
| | And to be holde digne of reuerence | |
| | But forto speke of hir conscience | |
| | She was so charitable and so pietous | |
| | She wolde wepe and she saw a mous | |
| 145 | Kawght in a trappe if it were deed or bledde | |
