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

                                
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                                  Moste by force / his deere doghter yeuen
                                
                                  Vn-to the Iuge / in lecherie to lyuen
                                
                                  He goth hym hom / and sette hym in his halle
                                
                                  And leet anoon / his deere doghter calle
                                  Line 208 
                                
                                  And with a face deed / as asshen colde
                                
                                  Vp-on hir humble face / he gan biholde
                                
                                  With fadres pitee / stikyng thurgh his herte
                                
                                  Al wolde he / from his purpos nat conuerte
                                  Line 212 
                                
                                  ¶ Doghter quod he / Virginia by thy name
                                
                                  Ther been two weyes / outher deeth / or shame
                                
                                  That thow most suffre / allas þat I was bore
                                
                                  ffor neuere / thow deseruedest wherfore
                                  Line 216 
                                
                                  To dyen / with a swerd / or with a knyf
                                
                                  O deere doghter / endere of my lyf
                                
                                  Which I haue fostred vp / with swich plesance
                                
                                  That thow were neuere / out of my remembrance
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                                  O doghter / which that art my laste wo
                                
                                  And in my lyf my laste ioye also
                                
                                  O gemme of chastitee / in pacience
                                
                                  Tak thow thy deeth / for this is my sentence
                                  Line 224 
                                
                                  ffor loue / and nat for hate / thow most be deed
                                
                                  My pitous hand / moot smyten of thyn heed
                                
                                  Allas / þat euere Apius thee say
                                
                                  Thus hath he falsly / Iugged thee to day
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                                  And tolde hire al the cas / as ye bifore
                                
                                  Han herd / nat nedeth for to telle it moore
                                
                                  ¶ O mercy deere fader / quod this mayde
                                
                                  And with that word / she bothe hir armes layde
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                                  Aboute his nekke / as she was wont to do
                                
                                  The teeris borste / out of hir eyen two
                                
                                  And seyde / goode fader / shal I dye
                                
                                  Is ther no grace / is ther no remedye
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                                  ¶ No certes / deere doghter myn quod he [folio 194b] 
                                
                                  ¶ Thanne yif me leyser / fader myn quod she
                                
                                  My deeth for to compleyne / a litel space
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                                  ffor pardee Iepte / yaf his doghter grace [¶ Iudicum cap.o xj.o]

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 446
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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