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

                                
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                                  Gladeþ himself / þus seyn men as I gesse /
                                
                                  Men louen of propre kynde newfangilnesse /
                                
                                  As briddes doon þat men in cages feede /
                                
                                  ffor þeigh þou night & day take of hem heede /
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                                  And strawe here cages faire as softe as silk
                                
                                  And yeue hem sucre hony bred and mylk
                                
                                  Yet right anon as þat his dore is vppe
                                
                                  he wiþ his feet wil sporne doun his cuppe
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                                  And to þe woode he wole and wormes ete
                                
                                  So newefangel ben þei of here mete
                                
                                  And louen noueleries of propre kynde [folio 99a] 
                                
                                  No gentilesse of blood may hem bynde
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                                  So ferde þis tercelet allas þe day
                                
                                  Though he were gentil born fressche and gay
                                
                                  And goodly for to seen and humble and fre
                                
                                  he saugh vpon a tyme a kyte flee
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                                  And sodeinly he loued þe kyte so
                                
                                  That alle his loue is clene fro me go
                                
                                  And haþ his trouþe falsed in þis wyse
                                
                                  Thus haþ þe kite my loue in hire seruise
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                                  And I am lorn wiþoute remedye
                                
                                  And wiþ þat word þis faukon gan to crye
                                
                                  And swouned eft/ in Canacees barm
                                
                                  Gret was þe sorwe for þe haukes harm
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                                  That Canacee and alle hire wommen maade
                                
                                  They nyste how þey mighte þe fawkon glade
                                
                                  But Canacee home bereþ hire in hire lappe
                                
                                  And softely in plastres gan hire wrappe
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                                  Ther as sche with hir beek haþ hurt hir selue
                                
                                  Now kan not Canace but herbes delue
                                
                                  Out of þe grounde and maken salues newe
                                
                                  Of herbes preciouses and fyn of hewe
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                                  To helen wiþ þe hauk fro day to nyght
                                
                                  Sche doþ hir besynesse and alle hire myght
                                
                                  And by hire beddes heed sche made a muwe
                                
                                  And couered it with veluettes bluwe

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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 211
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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