The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 483] 
                                  
                                  Ȝour excellente doughter þat is heere
                                
                                  ¶ The vertu of þis ryng and ȝe wol heere;
                                
                                  Is þis / þat who . so lust it for to were
                                
                                  vpon hir thomb / or in hir purs to bere
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                                  Ther is no foul / þat fleeth vnder þe heuen
                                
                                  That schal vnderstonden his steuen.
                                
                                  And know his menyng openly and pleyn
                                
                                  and answer him in his langage aȝeyn
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                                  And euery gras . þat groweþ vpon roote
                                
                                  Sche schal eek know / to whom it wol do boote
                                
                                  Al be his woundes neuer so deep and wyde
                                
                                  ¶ This naked swerd þat hangeþ by my syde
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                                  Such vertu hath þat what man þat it smyte
                                
                                  Thurghout his armur it wol kerue and byte
                                
                                  were it as þikke as a braunched ook
                                
                                  And what man is I-wounded with þe strook
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                                  Schal neuer be hool / til þat ȝou lust of grace [folio 151a] 
                                
                                  To strok him wiþ þe plat in þilke place;
                                
                                  Ther he is hurt . þis is as moche to seyn
                                
                                  Ȝe moote with þe platte swerd aȝein
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                                  Stroke him in þe wound and it wol close /
                                
                                  This is þe verray soth wiþouten glose /
                                
                                  It failleth nought whil it is in ȝour hold
                                
                                  And whan þis knight þus had his tale told
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                                  he rit out of þe halle and doun he light
                                
                                  his steede which þat schon as sonne bright
                                
                                  Stant in þe court as stille as eny stoon
                                
                                  This knight is to his chambre lad anoon
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                                  he is vnarmed and to mete I-sett
                                
                                  This presentȝ ben ful richely I-fett
                                
                                  This is to sayn, the swerd and the myrrour
                                
                                  And born anon vnto þe highe tour
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                                  with certein officers ordeynd þerfore
                                
                                  And vnto Canace þe ryng is bore;
                                
                                  Solempnely ther sche syt atte table
                                
                                  But sikerly wiþouten eny fable

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 341
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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