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

                                
                                  Gan for to wepe and so dide Emelie
                                
                                  And al þe ladies in þe companye
                                
                                  Grete pite was as hem þouht alle
                                
                                  That euer suche a chaunce shold falle
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                                  ffor gentilmen þei were of grete astate
                                
                                  And noþinge bot for loue was þis debate
                                
                                  And sauhe hire blody woundes wide and sore
                                
                                  And al criden boþe lasse and more
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                                  Haue merci lorde vpon vs wemmen alle
                                
                                  And on her bare knees downe þei falle
                                
                                  And wolde haue kist his fote þere as he stode
                                
                                  Til att laste a-slaked was his moode
                                  Line 1760 
                                
                                  ffor pite renneþ sone in gentil herte
                                
                                  And þouhe he firste fore Ire quoke and sterte
                                
                                  He considered schortly in a clause
                                
                                  The trespas of hem boþe and eke þe cause
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                                  And al-þouhe þat his Ire hir gilte accusede
                                
                                  Ȝit in his reson he hem boþ excusede
                                
                                  And þus he þouht wele þat euery man
                                
                                  Wil helpe him selfe in loue if þat he can
                                  Line 1768 
                                
                                  And eke deliuere him self owte of prisone
                                
                                  And eke his herte had compassione
                                
                                  Of wemmen for þei wepen euer in one [folio 23a] 
                                
                                  And in his gentill hert. he þouht anone
                                  Line 1772 
                                
                                  And soft vn to him self he seide fie
                                
                                  Vpon a lorde þat wille haue no mercye
                                
                                  Bot he be lyone boþe in worde and in dede
                                
                                  To hem þat bene in repentance and drede
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                                  Al so wele as to a proude dispitous man
                                
                                  That wil Maiten þat he first be-gan
                                
                                  That lorde haþ litel of discrecion
                                
                                  That in suche cas can no deuision
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                                  And weieþe pride and humblenesse after one
                                
                                  And whan his Ire is þus a-gone
                                
                                  He gan to Loken vpe wiþ yhe liht
                                
                                  And spake þis same wordes al on hiht

                                  Line 1784

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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 51
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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