The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  And as I am a kinges doughter trewe
                                
                                  If þat I verraily þe causes knewe
                                
                                  Of youre disease if it lay in my might
                                
                                  I wolde amende it or þat it were night
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                                  Als wisly help me grete god of kynde
                                
                                  And herbes schal I right ynowe fynde
                                
                                  To hele wiþ ȝour hurtes hastily
                                
                                  Tho schrighte þis faukon yet more pitously
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                                  Than euer sche dide and fil to grounde anon
                                
                                  And liþ on swowne deed as ony stoon
                                
                                  Til Canacee haþ in hir lappe hire take [folio 97a] 
                                
                                  vnto þat tyme sche gan of swowne awake /
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                                  And after þat sche of swowne gan abreide
                                
                                  Right in hir hawkes leodne þus sche seyde
                                
                                  That pite renneth sone in gentil herte
                                
                                  ffeelyng his similitude in peynes smerte /
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                                  Is proued alday as men may it see
                                
                                  As wel by werk as by auctorite
                                
                                  ffor gentil herte kepeþ gentillesse
                                
                                  I se wel þat ye han of my distresse
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                                  Compassion my faire Canace /
                                
                                  Of verray wommanly benignite /
                                
                                  That nature in youre principles haþ set
                                
                                  But for non hope for to fare þe bet
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                                  But for to obeye vnto youre herte fre /
                                
                                  And for to maken oþer be war by me /
                                
                                  As by þe whelp chastised is þe leon
                                
                                  Right for þat cause and for þat conclusion
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                                  Whil þat I haue a leyser and a space
                                
                                  Myn harm I wol confessen er I pace
                                
                                  And euer whil sche can hir sorwe tolde
                                
                                  That oþer wepte as sche to water wolde
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                                  Til þat þe fawkon bad hir to be stille /
                                
                                  And with a sike þus sche seyde hire tille
                                
                                  Ther I was bred allas þat ilke day
                                
                                  And fostred in a roche of marbul gray

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 207
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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