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

                                
                                  Com for to wepe and so dide Emelye
                                
                                  And all þe ladies of þe compaignye
                                
                                  Gret pite was it as it þought hem alle
                                
                                  That euer such a chaunce schulde falle
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                                  ffor gentil men þei were of gret estat
                                
                                  And noþing but for loue was þis debat
                                
                                  And saugh hire bloody woundes wide and sore
                                
                                  And alle cryeden boþe lasse and more
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                                  Haue mercy lord vpon vs wommen alle
                                
                                  And on here bare knees doun þei falle
                                
                                  And wolde haue kist his feet þer as he stood
                                
                                  Til atte last aslaked was his mood
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                                  ffor pite renneþ sone in gentil herte /
                                
                                  And þough he ferst for Ire quook and sterte [folio 25b] 
                                
                                  he haþ considered schortly in a clause
                                
                                  The trespas of hem bothe and eek þe cause
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                                  And al þough þat his Ire hire gilt accused
                                
                                  Ȝit in his reson he hem boþe excused
                                
                                  As þus he þoughte wel þat euery man
                                
                                  Wil helpe himself in loue if þat he can
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                                  And eek deliuere himself out of prison
                                
                                  And eek his herte hadde compassion
                                
                                  Of wommen for þey wepen euer in oon
                                
                                  And in his gentil herte he þought anon
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                                  And softe vnto himself he seide fy
                                
                                  vpon a lord þat wol haue no mercy
                                
                                  But be a leon boþe in word and dede /
                                
                                  To hem þat ben in repentance and drede
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                                  As wel as to a proud dispitous man
                                
                                  That wol maintene þat he first bigan
                                
                                  That lord haþ litel of discrecion
                                
                                  That in such cas can no diuision
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                                  But weyeth pride and humblesse after oon
                                
                                  And schortly whan his Ire is þus goon
                                
                                  he gan to loken vp with eyghen light
                                
                                  And spak þis same wordes al on hight

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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 51
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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