The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 483] 
                                  
                                  youre excellent doughter þat is heere
                                
                                  The vertu of þis ring if ȝe wol heere
                                
                                  Is þis. þat if hir list it for to were /
                                
                                  vpon hir þombe or in hir purs it bere
                                  Line 148 
                                
                                  Ther is no foule þat fleigh vnder þe heuene
                                
                                  þat she ne schal vnderstonde his steuene
                                
                                  And knowe his menyng openly and pleyn
                                
                                  And answere him in his langage ageyn
                                  Line 152 
                                
                                  And euery gras þat groweþ vpon a roote / [folio 92b] 
                                
                                  Sche schal wel knowe and whom it wol do boote
                                
                                  Al be his woundes neuer so deepe and wyde
                                
                                  This naked swerd þat hongeth by my syde
                                  Line 156 
                                
                                  Swich vertu haþ þat what man so ye smyte
                                
                                  Thurghout his armour it wole kerue and byte
                                
                                  Were it as þikke as is a braunched oke
                                
                                  And what man þat is wounded wiþ þe stroke
                                  Line 160 
                                
                                  Schal neuer be hol til þat yow list of grace
                                
                                  To stroke him wiþ þe plat in þilke place
                                
                                  Ther he is hurt þis is as moche to sayn
                                
                                  ye moote with þe platte swerd agayn
                                  Line 164 
                                
                                  Stroke him on þe wounde and it wil close
                                
                                  This is a verray soth wiþouten glose
                                
                                  It failleþ nought whiles it is in youre hold
                                
                                  And whan þis knight haþ þus his tale told
                                  Line 168 
                                
                                  he rydeth out of þe halle and doun he light
                                
                                  his steede which þat schon as sonne bright
                                
                                  Stant in þe court stille as ony stoon
                                
                                  This knight in to his chambre is lad anoon
                                  Line 172 
                                
                                  And is vnarmed and to þe mete y-set
                                
                                  The presentes ben ful richely y-fet
                                
                                  This is to sein þe swerd and þe mirour
                                
                                  And born anon vnto þe hihe tour
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                                  Wiþ certein officers ordeyned þerfore
                                
                                  And vnto Canacee þe ryng is bore
                                
                                  Solempnely þer sche sitt atte table
                                
                                  But sikerly wiþouten eny fable /

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 198
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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