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

                                
                                     [6-text p 483] 
                                  
                                  Ȝowre excellent douhter þat is here
                                
                                  The vertue of þis ringe if ȝe wil here
                                
                                  Is þis þat if hire list it for to were
                                
                                  Vpon hir þome or in hir purse it bere
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                                  There is no foule þat flieþ vnder heuen
                                
                                  Þat sche ne shal vnder-stonde his steuen
                                
                                  And knowe his meneynge openly and pleyne
                                
                                  And answere him in his langage aȝeine
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                                  And euery grasse þat groweþ vpon rote
                                
                                  Se schal wel knowe and whom it wil do bote
                                
                                  Al be his wondes neuer so depe and wide
                                
                                  ¶ This naked swerde þat hingeþ be my side
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                                  Suche vertue haþ þat what man so it smyte
                                
                                  þoruhe oute his armour it wil kerue and bite
                                
                                  Were it as þikke as is a braunched oke
                                
                                  And what man þat is wonded wiþ þe stroke
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                                  Schal neuere be hole til þat ȝou list of grace
                                
                                  To stroke him wiþ þe plat in þilke place
                                
                                  There he is hurte þis is as muche to seine
                                
                                  Ȝe most wiþ þe platte swerde a-ȝeine
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                                  stroke him in þe wounde and it wil close
                                
                                  This is a verrei soþe wiþ-outen glose
                                
                                  It faileþ nouht whiles it is in ȝoure holde
                                
                                  ¶ And whan þis knyht haþe þus his tale tolde
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                                  He rideþe oute of þe hall and doune he liht
                                
                                  His stede which þat schone as sonne briht
                                
                                  Stant in þe courte stille as any stone
                                
                                  Þis knyht is to his chambre lad anone
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                                  And is armede and is to þe mete y-set
                                
                                  The presentes bien ful richely .y-fett
                                
                                  This is to seine þe swerde and þe mirrour
                                
                                  And borne a-none vnto þe hihe toure
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                                  Wiþ certeine oficeres y-ordeyned þere fore
                                
                                  And vnto Canacee þe ringe is bore
                                
                                  Solemply þer sche sit att þe table
                                
                                  Bot sekurly wyþ-outen any fable

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 198
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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