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

                                
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                                  Of fremde londe and euermore as sche stood
                                
                                  Sche swounede now and now for lak of blood
                                
                                  Til wel neigh is sche fallen fro þe tree
                                
                                  This faire kinges doughter þis kanacee
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                                  That on hir fynger bar þe queynte ryng
                                
                                  þurgh which sche vnderstood wel euery þing
                                
                                  That any foul may in his ledne sayn
                                
                                  And kowde answere him in his ledne agayn
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                                  haþ vnderstande þat þis fawkon sayde
                                
                                  And wel neigh for þe rouþe almost sche deyde
                                
                                  And to þe tree sche goþ ful hastily [folio 96b] 
                                
                                  And on þis fawkon lokeþ pitously
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                                  And held hire lappe abrood for wel sche wiste /
                                
                                  The fawkon moste falle from þe twyste /
                                
                                  whan þat it swownede next for lakke of blood
                                
                                  A long while to wayte hire sche stood
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                                  Til atte laste sche spak in þis maneere
                                
                                  Vnto þe hauk as ȝe schal after heere
                                
                                  what is þe cause if it be for to telle
                                
                                  That ye ben in þis furial peyne of helle
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                                  Quod Canacee vnto þis hawk aboue
                                
                                  Is þis for sorwe of deth or los of loue
                                
                                  ffor as I trowe þise beþ causes tuo
                                
                                  That causen moost a gentil herte woo
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                                  Of oþer harm it redeþ nought/ to speke
                                
                                  ffor þi your self vpon your self yow wreke
                                
                                  which þat proueþ wel þat eyþer Ire or drede
                                
                                  Moot ben encheson of youre cruel dede
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                                  Syn þat I se non oþer wight yow chace
                                
                                  ffor loue of god so doþ your selue grace
                                
                                  Or what may be your help for west nor est
                                
                                  Ne saugh I neuer er now no bryd ne best
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                                  That ferde with himself so pitously
                                
                                  ye slee me with youre sorwe verrayly
                                
                                  I haue of yow so gret compassioun
                                
                                  ffor goddes loue com fro þe tree a doun

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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 206
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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