[markede] my weeply compleynte with office of pointel, I saw,

stondinge aboven the heighte of myn heved, a woman of ful greet

reverence by semblaunt, hir eyen brenninge and cleer-seinge over

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the comune might of men; with a lyfly colour, and with swich

vigour and strengthe that it ne mighte nat ben [empted]; al were it

so that she was ful of so greet age, that men ne wolde nat trowen,

in no manere, that she were of oure elde. The stature of hir was

of a [doutous] Iugement; for som-tyme she constreinede and shronk

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