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

                                
                                     [6-text p 492] 
                                  
                                  And as I am a kynges doughter trewe [folio 155a] 
                                
                                  If þat I verrayly þe cause knewe
                                
                                  Of ȝour disese if it lay in my might
                                
                                  I wold amenden it if þat I might
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                                  Als wisly help me grete god of kynde
                                
                                  And herbes schal I right ynowe fynde
                                
                                  To helen with ȝour hurtes hastyly
                                
                                  Tho schright þis faukoun more pitously
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                                  Than euer sche did and fil to ground anoon
                                
                                  And lay a-swowne deed as eny stoon
                                
                                  Til Canace hath in hir lap y-take
                                
                                  vnto þat tyme sche gan of swowne slake /
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                                  And after þat sche gan of swown abreyde
                                
                                  Right in hir haukes lydne thus sche seyde
                                
                                  That pite renneth sone in gentil hert
                                
                                  Felyng his similitude in peynes smerte
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                                  Is proued alday as men may see
                                
                                  As wel by werk as by auctorite
                                
                                  For gentil herte kepeth gentillesse /
                                
                                  I see wel þat ȝe haue on my distresse
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                                  Compassioun my faire Canace
                                
                                  Of verray wommanly benignite /
                                
                                  That nature in ȝour principles haþ set
                                
                                  But noon hope for to fare þe bet
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                                  But for to obeye vnto ȝour herte fre
                                
                                  And for to make othere war by me
                                
                                  As by þe whelp chastised is þe lyoun
                                
                                  And for þat cause and þat conclusioun
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                                  whiles þat I haue a leyser and a space
                                
                                  Myn harm I wil confessen er I pace
                                
                                  And whil sche euer of hir sorwe tolde
                                
                                  That oþer wept as sche to water wolde /
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                                  Til þat þe faucoun bad hir to be stille /
                                
                                  And with a sighhe / þus sche sayd hir tille
                                
                                  ¶ Ther I was allas þat ilke day
                                
                                  And fostred in a Roch of marble gray

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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 350
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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