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

                                
                                  Gan for to wepe and so dede Emelye
                                
                                  And alle þe ladies in companye
                                
                                  Great pite was it as it þought hem alle
                                
                                  That euere such a chaunce schulde falle
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                                  For gentil men þei were and of gret estate
                                
                                  And noþing but for loue was þis debate
                                
                                  And saw here bloody woundes wyde and sore
                                
                                  And alle þey cryde lesse and þe more
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                                  Haue mercy lord vpon vs wommen alle
                                
                                  And on here bare knees anoon þey falle
                                
                                  And wolde haue kissed his bare feet right as he stood
                                
                                  Till atte laste aslaked was his mood
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                                  For pite renneþ sone in gentil herte
                                
                                  And þough he for Ire quok and sterte
                                
                                  he haþ it al considered in a clause
                                
                                  The trespas of hem boþe and here cause
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                                  And al-þough his Ire here gylt accused
                                
                                  Ȝet he in his resoun hem boþe excused
                                
                                  And þus he þought þat euery maner man
                                
                                  wol help himself in loue if þat he can
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                                  And eek delyuer himself out of prisoun
                                
                                  And eek in his hert/ had compassioun
                                
                                  Of wommen for þey wepen euer in oon
                                
                                  And in his gentil hert he þought anoon
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                                  And soþly he to himself seyde fy.
                                
                                  vpon a lord þat wol haue no mercy
                                
                                  But be a lyoun boþe in word in dede
                                
                                  To hem þat ben in repentaunce and drede
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                                  As wel as to a proud dispitious man
                                
                                  That wol maynteyne þat he first bigan
                                
                                  That lord haþ litel of discrecioun
                                
                                  That in such caas can no diuisioun
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                                  But wayteþ pride and humblenesse after oon
                                
                                  And schortly whan his Ire is ouer gon
                                
                                  He gan to loke on hem with eyen blake and light
                                
                                  And spak þese same wordes al in hight

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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 51
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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