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

                                
                                  Gan for to wepe / and so dide Emelye
                                
                                  And alle the ladies / in the compaignye
                                
                                  Greet pitee was it / as it thoughte hem alle
                                
                                  That euere swich a chaunce / sholde falle
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                                  ffor gentil men they weere / of greet estaat
                                
                                  And no thyng but for loue / was this debaat
                                
                                  And sawe / hir blody wowndes / wide and soore
                                
                                  And alle cryden / bothe lasse and moore
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                                  Haue mercy lord / vp on vs wommen alle
                                
                                  And on hir bare knees / adown they falle
                                
                                  And wolde haue kist his feet ther as he stood
                                
                                  Til at the laste / aslaked was his mood
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                                  ffor pitee / renneth soone in gentil herte
                                
                                  And thogh he first for Ire quook and sterte
                                
                                  He hath considred / shorthly in a clause
                                
                                  The trespas of hem bothe / and eek the cause
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                                  And al thogh þat his Ire / hir gilt accused
                                
                                  Yet in his reson / he hem bothe excused
                                
                                  ¶ As thus / he thoghte wel þat euery man
                                
                                  Wol helpe hym self in loue / if þat he kan
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                                  And eek / deliuere hym self / out of prison
                                
                                  And eek / his herte hadde compassion
                                
                                  Of wommen / for they wepten euere in oon
                                
                                  And in his gentil herte / he thoghte anoon
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                                  And softe vn to hym / self he seyde fy
                                
                                  Vp on a lord / that wol haue no mercy [¶ nota] 
                                
                                  But be a leon / bothe in word / and dede
                                
                                  To hem / that been in repentaunce and drede
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                                  As wel / as to a proud despitous man
                                
                                  That wol mayntene / that he first bigan
                                
                                  That lord / hath litel of discrecion
                                
                                  That in swich caas / kan no dyuysion
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                                  But weyeth pryde / and humblesse / after oon
                                
                                  And shortly / whan his Ire is thus agoon
                                
                                  He gan to loken vp / with eyen lighte [folio 24b] 
                                
                                  And spak thise same wordes / al on highte

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 51
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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