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

                                
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                                  Gladeþ him selfe þus seine men as .I. gesse
                                
                                  Men loue of propre kinde newefangelnesse
                                
                                  As birdes done þat men in cage fede
                                
                                  For þouhe þe nyht and daie take of hem hede
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                                  And strewe hir cage faire and soft as silke
                                
                                  And ȝiue hem suger hony brede and melke
                                
                                  Ȝit riht anone as þat his dore is huppe
                                
                                  He wiþþe wiþ his fete wi[l] sporne doune his cuppe
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                                  And to þe wode he wil and wermes ete
                                
                                  So new fongel be þei of her mete
                                
                                  And louen none leueres of propre kinde
                                
                                  Ne gentilles of maie hem binde
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                                  So ferde þis tarselet alas þis daie
                                
                                  þouhe he ware gentil borne frische and gaie
                                
                                  And goodly for to see and humble and free
                                
                                  He sawe vp-on a time a kite fle
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                                  And sodanly he loued þis kite soo
                                
                                  þat al his loue is clene fro me goo
                                
                                  And haþ his trouþe falsed in þis wise
                                
                                  þus haþe þe kite my loue in her seruise
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                                  And .I. am lorne wiþ-oute remedie
                                
                                  And wiþ þat worde þis fawkon gan to crie
                                
                                  And swowned eft in Canace barme
                                
                                  Grete was þe sorwe of þat haukes harme
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                                  That Canacee and al hir wemmen maade
                                
                                  Thei nest howe þat þei myht þe faukon glade
                                
                                  Bot Canace home bereþ hir in lappe
                                
                                  And softely in plastres gan hir wrappe
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                                  þer as sche wiþe hire beke hadde hert hir selue
                                
                                  Nowe can nouȝt Canace bot herbes delue
                                
                                  Oute of þe grounde and maken salues newe
                                
                                  Of herbes precious and fyne of hewe
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                                  To helen wiþ þe hauke fro daie to nyht
                                
                                  Sche doþe hire besines and al hir myht
                                
                                  And be hir beddes hede sche maade a mewe
                                
                                  And couerd it wiþ veluetes blewe

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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 211
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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