And sikerly[[56]] she had a likerous[[57]] eye,

Ful smal ypulled[[58]] were hire browës two,

And they were bent and black as any slo,

She was wel morë blisful on to see

Than is the newë perjenetë[[59]] tree,

And softer than the wolle is of a wether.

And by hire girdle heng a purse of lether,

Tasseled with silk and perlëd with latoun,[[60]]

In all this world to seken up and doun

Ther n'is no man so wise that coude thenche[[61]]