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

                                
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                                  Most be force his dere douhter ȝeuen
                                
                                  Vn-to þe Iuge in lichere to leuen
                                
                                  He goþe him home and sett him in his hall
                                
                                  And lete anone his dere douhter call
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                                  And wiþ a face dede as asshen colde
                                
                                  Vpon hire hum[ble] face he gan be-holde
                                
                                  Wiþ faders pite stikinge þoruhe his hert
                                
                                  Al wolde he nouht from his purpos conuert
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                                  Douhter quod he virginea be þi name
                                
                                  There bien tuo weys eyþer oþer schame
                                
                                  þat þou must soffer alas þat .I. was bore
                                
                                  For neuer þou deseruest where fore
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                                  To deyen wiþ a swerde or wiþ a knyf
                                
                                  O der douhter ender of my lif
                                
                                  Whiche .I. haue fosterd vp wiþ suche plesance
                                
                                  þat þou ne weer oute my remembrance
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                                  O douhter whiche þat ert my last woo
                                
                                  And in lif my last ioy also
                                
                                  O gemme of chastite in pacience
                                
                                  Take þou þi deþ for þis is my sentence
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                                  For loue and nouht for hate þou must be dede
                                
                                  My pitous honde most smyte of þin hede
                                
                                  Alas þat euer Apius þe seyhe
                                
                                  Thus haþe he falsly Iugged þe to day
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                                  And tolde hire al þe cas as ȝe be-fore
                                
                                  Haue herd it nedeþ nouht to tel it no more
                                
                                  Merce dere fadere quod þis maide
                                
                                  And wiþe þat worde sche boþe hire armes leide
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                                  Aboute his nekke as sche was wont to do
                                
                                  The teres barsten oute of hire yen tuo
                                
                                  And seide goode fader schal .I. deye
                                
                                  Is þere no grace is þere no remedie
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                                  No certes dere douhter myne quod he
                                
                                  Than ȝeue me leue fader myn quod sche
                                
                                  My deþ to compleyne a litel space
                                
                                  For parde Ieffa ȝaue his douhter grace

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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 432
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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