The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
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                                  Muste by force / his deere doughter ȝiuen
                                
                                  vn-to the Iustice / in lecherye to lyuen
                                
                                  he goth him hom / and sette him in his halle
                                
                                  And leet a-noon / his deere doughter calle
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                                  And with a face deed / as asshen colde
                                
                                  vp-on hire humble face / he gan biholde
                                
                                  With fadres pitee / stikynge thurgh his herte
                                
                                  Al wolde he / from his purpos nat conuerte
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                                  ¶ Doughter quod he / virginia by thy name
                                
                                  There ben two weyes / either deth or shame
                                
                                  That thow must suffre / allas that I was bore
                                
                                  ffor neuere thow deseruedest / wherfore
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                                  To dyen with a swerd / or with a knyf
                                
                                  O deere doughter / endere of my lyf
                                
                                  Which I haue fostred vp / with swich plesaunce
                                
                                  That thow were neuere / out of myn remembraunce
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                                  O doughter / which that art / my laste woo
                                
                                  And in my lif / my laste ioye also
                                
                                  O gemme of chastitee / in pacience
                                
                                  Take thow thy deth / for this is my sentence
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                                  ffor loue / and nat for hate / thow must be ded
                                
                                  My pitous hand / moot smyten of thyn hed
                                
                                  Allas / that euere Apius the say
                                
                                  Thus hath he falsly / Iuged the to-day
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                                  And told hire al the cas / as ȝe bifore
                                
                                  han herd / nat nedeth it / to telle it more
                                
                                  ¶ O mercy deere fader / quod this mayde
                                
                                  And with that word / she bothe hir armes leyde
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                                  A-boute his nekke / as she was wont to doo
                                
                                  The teeris borst out / of hire eighen two
                                
                                  And seide / goode fader / shal I dye
                                
                                  Is there no grace / is þere no remedye
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                                  ¶ No certes / deere doughter myn quod he
                                
                                  ¶ Than ȝif me leiser / fader myn quod she
                                
                                  My deth for to compleyne / a litel space
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                                  ffor pardee / Iepte ȝaf his doughter grace [¶ Iudicum capitulo xio fuit illo tempore]

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 365
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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