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

                                
                                     [6-text p 309] 
                                  
                                  Moste by force his deere doughter ȝyuen
                                
                                  vnto þe Iuge in lecchorie to lyuen
                                
                                  he goþ him hom and sette him in his halle
                                
                                  And leet anon his deere douȝter calle /
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                                  And with a face deed as ayssches colde
                                
                                  vppon hire humble face he gan biholde
                                
                                  Wiþ fadres pite stiking þorugh his herte
                                
                                  Al wolde he not from his purpos conuerte
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                                  Doughter quod he virginea by þy name
                                
                                  þer ben tuo weyes oþer deþ or schame
                                
                                  That þou most suffre allas þat I was bore
                                
                                  ffor neuer þou deseruedest wherfore
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                                  To deyen with a swerd or wiþ a knyf
                                
                                  O deere doughter endere of my lijf
                                
                                  Which I haue fostred vp wiþ such plesaunce
                                
                                  þat þou ne were out of my remembrance /
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                                  O doughter which þat art my laste wo /
                                
                                  And in my lijf my laste ioye also
                                
                                  O gemme of chastite in pacience
                                
                                  Tak þou þi deþ for þis is my sentence /
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                                  ffor loue and nat/ for hate þou most be deed
                                
                                  My pitous hond moot smyten of þin heed
                                
                                  Allas þat euer Apius þe say
                                
                                  þus haþ he falsly iugged þe to day
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                                  And tolde hire al þe cas as ȝe bifore [folio 194a] 
                                
                                  han herd it nedeþ not to telle it more
                                
                                  Mercy deere fader quod þis mayde
                                
                                  And wiþ þat word sche boþe hire armes layde
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                                  Aboute his necke as sche was woned to do
                                
                                  þe teeres barsten out of hire eyen tuo
                                
                                  And sayde goode fader schal I dye
                                
                                  Is þer no grace is þer no remedye
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                                  No certes deere douȝter myn quod he
                                
                                  þanne ȝif me leue fader myn quod sche
                                
                                  My deþ to compleigne a litel space
                                
                                  ffor parde Ieffa ȝaf his douȝter grace

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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 431
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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