The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 492] 
                                  
                                  And as .I. am a kinges douhter trewe
                                
                                  If þat .I. verrayly þe cause knewe
                                
                                  Of yowre disease if laie in my myht
                                
                                  .I. wold amend it or þat it wer nyht
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                                  As wissely helpe me grete god of kinde
                                
                                  And herbes schal .I. riht y-nowe finde
                                
                                  To hele wiþþe ȝowre hurtes hastely
                                
                                  Tho schright þis faukon more pitously
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                                  Than euer sche dede and fel to grounde a-none
                                
                                  And lieþ on swowne dede as any stone
                                
                                  This Canace haþe in hir lappe hir take
                                
                                  Vn-to þat time sche gan of swoune a-wake
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                                  And after þat sche of swowne gan a-braide
                                
                                  Riht in hir haukes loden þus sche seid
                                
                                  That pite renneþ sone in gentil hert
                                
                                  Feleynge is similitude in peines smert
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                                  Is proued al daie as men maie it see [folio 85a] 
                                
                                  As wele be werke as be auctorite
                                
                                  For gentil hert kepeþ gentillesse
                                
                                  I. see wele þat ȝe hane of me destresse
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                                  Compassione my faire Canacee
                                
                                  Of verrey wommanly benyngnite
                                
                                  Þat nature in ȝoure principles haþe sett
                                
                                  Bot for no hope for to fare þe bett
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                                  Bot for to obeie vnto ȝoure hert fre
                                
                                  And for to maken oþere be war be me
                                
                                  As be þe whelpe chastized es þe lyon
                                
                                  Riht for þat cause and for þat conclusion
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                                  While þat .I. haue a leiser and a space.
                                
                                  Myne harme .I. wil confessen ar .I. pace
                                
                                  And euer while þat one hire sorwe tolde
                                
                                  þe toþer weped as sche to water wolde
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                                  Til þat þe faukon bad hir to be still
                                
                                  And wiþ a sike þus sche seide hir till
                                
                                  There .I. was bred alas þat ilke daie
                                
                                  And fosterd in a roche of Marble graie

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 207
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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