The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                   [6-text p 483]  [hic] 
                                
                                  Youre excellente doghter/ that is heere [audir] 
                                
                                  ¶ The vertu of the ryng if ye wol heere [¶ Of the vertu of the ryng/] 
                                
                                  Is this / that if hire lust it for to were [folio 121a] 
                                
                                  Vp on hir thombe / or in hir purs it bere
                                  Line 148 
                                
                                  Ther is no fowel / þat fleeth vnder the heuene
                                
                                  That she / ne shal / wel vnderstonde his steuene
                                
                                  And knowe his menyng openly and pleyn
                                
                                  And answere hym / in his langage ageyn
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                                  And euery gras / that groweth vp on roote
                                
                                  She shal eek knowe / and whom it wol do boote
                                
                                  Al be hise woundes / neuer so depe and wyde
                                
                                  ¶ This naked swerd / þat hangeth by my syde [¶ Of the vertu of the swerde] 
                                
                                  Swich vertu hath / þat what man so ye smyte
                                
                                  Thurgh out his Armure / it wole hym kerue and byte
                                
                                  Were it as thikke / as is a branched ook
                                
                                  And what man / that is wounded with a strook
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                                  Shal neuer be hool / til þat yow list of grace
                                
                                  To stroke hym with the plat in that place
                                
                                  Ther he is hurt / this is as muche to seyn
                                
                                  Ye moote / with the plat swerd ageyn
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                                  Strike hym in the wounde / and it wol close
                                
                                  This is a verray sooth / with outen glose
                                
                                  It failleth nat whils it is in youre hoold
                                
                                  ¶ And whan this knyght hath thus his tale toold
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                                  He rideth out of halle / and doun he lighte
                                
                                  His steede / which þat shoon / as sonne brighte
                                
                                  Stant in the court stille as any stoon
                                
                                  This knyght is to his chambre lad anoon
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                                  And is vnarmed / and vn to mete yset
                                
                                  ¶ The presentes / been / ful roially yfet
                                
                                  This is to seyn / the swerd and the Mirour
                                
                                  And born anon / in to the heighe Tour
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                                  With certeine officers / ordeyned therfore
                                
                                  And vn to Canacee / this ryng was bore
                                
                                  Solempnely / ther she sit/ at the table
                                
                                  But sikerly / with outen any fable

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 317
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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