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

                                
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                                  Moste by force his deere douȝter ȝiuen
                                
                                  Vnto þe Iuge in lecchery to lyuen
                                
                                  he goþ him hom and sette him in his halle /
                                
                                  And leet anoon his deere douȝter calle /
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                                  And wiþ a face deed as aisshen colde
                                
                                  vpon hir humble face he gan byholde
                                
                                  with fadres pite stiking þorugh his herte
                                
                                  Al wolde he from his purpos not conuerte /
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                                  Doughter quod he virginea by þy name
                                
                                  Ther ben tuo weyes eyþer deþ or schame
                                
                                  That þou most suffre allas þat I was bore
                                
                                  For neuer þou deseruedest wherfore
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                                  To deyen with a swerd or with a knyf
                                
                                  O deere doughter ender of my lif
                                
                                  which I haue fostred vp with such plesaunce·
                                
                                  That þou nere oute of my remembraunce [folio 184b] 
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                                  O doughter which . þat art my laste wo
                                
                                  And in þis lif my laste ioye also
                                
                                  O gemme of chastite in pacience
                                
                                  Tak þou þy deth for þis is my sentence
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                                  For loue and not for hate þou most be deed
                                
                                  My pitous hond mot smyten of þin heed
                                
                                  Allas þat euer apius þe say
                                
                                  Thus haþ he falsly iugged þe to day
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                                  And told hir al þe caas as ȝe bifore
                                
                                  han herd . it nedeth nought to telle it more
                                
                                  Mercy deere fader quod þis mayde
                                
                                  And with þat word sche boþe hir armes layde /
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                                  Aboute his nekke as sche was wont to doo
                                
                                  The teeres brast out of hir eyȝen tuo
                                
                                  And sayde goode fader schal I dye
                                
                                  Is ther no grace is þer no remedye
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                                  No certeyn deere doughter myn quod he /
                                
                                  Than ȝeue me leue fader myn quod sche /
                                
                                  My deþ for to compleyne a litel space /
                                
                                  For par dy Ieffa ȝaf his douȝter grace

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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 421
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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