The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 496] 
                                  
                                  Gladyth hym self thus seye men as I gesse
                                
                                  Men loue of propyr kynde newefangilnesse
                                
                                  As bryddys don that men in cage feede
                                
                                  ffor thow thu nyȝt & day of hem take heede
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                                  And strawe hyre [[a word scratcht out]]  cage / as softe as ony silk
                                
                                  And ȝeue hym sugere hony breed & Mylk [[2 leaves out of the Camb. MS]] 
                                
                                  [Ȝit riȝt a none as þat hys dore ys vppe [Sloane MS 1685 folio 85b] 
                                
                                  he with hys feete wille spurne doune hys Cuppe
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                                  And to þe woode he wolle & wormes ete
                                
                                  So newefangylle bene þei of hyr mete
                                
                                  And louen noueleryes of propre kynde
                                
                                  No gentyllnesse of bloode may hem bynde
                                  Line 620 
                                
                                  So farithe þis Tarselet allas þe day
                                
                                  Thouȝe he were gentylle fresshe & gay
                                
                                  And goodly for to sene and humble & fre
                                
                                  he sawe opon a tyme a kyte fle
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                                  And sodeynly he louythe þis kyte so
                                
                                  þat alle his loue ys clene fro me goo
                                
                                  And hathe his trouthe falsehede in þis wyse
                                
                                  Thus hathe þe kyte my loue in hys seruyce
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                                  And I am lorne with oute remedy
                                
                                  And with þat worde þis faucon gan to crye
                                
                                  And swoned efte in Canaces barme [Sloane MS 1685 folio 86a] 
                                
                                  Grete was þat sorowe of þat haukes harme
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                                  þat Canacee and alle hir women made
                                
                                  þei · nyste howe þei myȝt þe faucon glade
                                
                                  But Canace home berithe hir in hir lappe
                                
                                  And softely in plastres gan hir wrappe
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                                  There as she with hir beeke hathe hurte hir silfe
                                
                                  Nowe can not Canace but erbys delue
                                
                                  Of herbes precious and fyne of hewe
                                
                                  Oute of þe grounde and maken salues newe
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                                  To helyn with þe hauke fro day to nyȝt
                                
                                  Scho dothe hir besynesse & alle hir myȝt
                                
                                  And by hir beddys hede sho made and muwe
                                
                                  And couerid hit with velowetys blewe

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 326
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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