[Sidenote: Her clothes were finely wrought and indissoluble, but
dark and dusky, like old
besmoked
images.
Chaucer - Boethius
e stature of hir was of a doutous iugement. for
su{m}tyme sche constreyned[e] {and} schronk hir selue{n}
lyche to ?e comune mesure of men. {and} su{m}tyme it
semed[e] ?at sche touched[e] ?e heuene wi? ?e hey?te 40
of hir heued. and when sche hef hir heued heyer sche
p{er}ced[e] ?e selue heuene. so ?at ?e sy?t of men lokyng
was i{n} ydel.
[Sidenote: Her clothes were finely wrought and indissoluble, but
dark and dusky, like old
besmoked
images.
]
? Hir clo?es weren maked of ry?t delye
?redes {and} subtil crafte of p{er}durable matere. ?e wyche 44
clo?es sche hadde wouen wi? hir owen hondes: as I
knew wel aftir by hir selfe. declaryng {and} schewyng
to me ?e beaute. ?e wiche clo?es a derkenes of a forleten
and dispised elde had[de] duskid {and} dirkid as 48
it is wo{n}t to dirken by-smoked ymages.
[Sidenote: On the lower hem of her garment was the letter ?
