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

                                
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                                  And as I am / a kynges doghter trewe
                                
                                  If þat I verraily / the cause knewe
                                
                                  Of youre disese / if it lay in my myght
                                
                                  I wolde amenden it er þat it were nyght
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                                  As wisly helpe me / the grete god of kynde
                                
                                  And herbes / shal I right ynowe yfynde
                                
                                  To heele with / youre hurtes hastily
                                
                                  ¶ Tho shrighte this ffaucon / moore yet pitously
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                                  Than euer she dide / and fil to grounde anon
                                
                                  And lith aswowne deed / and lyk a stoon
                                
                                  Til Canacee / hath in hire lappe hire take
                                
                                  Vn to the tyme / she gan of swough awake
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                                  ¶ And after that she of hir swough gan breyde [folio 124b] 
                                
                                  Right in hir haukes ledene / thus she seyde
                                
                                  That pitee / renneth soone in gentil herte
                                
                                  ffeelynge his similitude / in peynes smerte
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                                  Is preued al day / as men may see
                                
                                  As wel by werk as by Auctoritee
                                
                                  ffor gentil herte / kitheth gentillesse
                                
                                  I se wel / ye han of my distresse
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                                  Compassion / my faire Canacee
                                
                                  Of verray wommanly benignytee
                                
                                  That nature / in youre principles hath yset
                                
                                  But for noon hope / for to fare the bet
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                                  But for obeye / vn to youre herte free
                                
                                  And for to maken othere / be war by me
                                
                                  As by the whelpe / chasted is the leon
                                
                                  Right for that cause / and for that conclusion
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                                  Whil þat I haue / a leyser and a space
                                
                                  Myn harm / I wol confessen er I pace
                                
                                  ¶ And euere / whil þat oon hir sorwe tolde
                                
                                  That oother weepe / as she to water wolde
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                                  Til that the ffaucon / bad hire to be stille
                                
                                  And with a syk / right thus she seyde hir wille
                                
                                  ¶ That I was bred / allas that harde day
                                
                                  And fostred in a Roche / of Marbul gray

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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 326
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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