The Squire's Tale
Folio 137r
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Out of the grownd / and maken saues newe
Of herbes perciouse / and fyn of hewe
To heelen with this hauk / fro day to nyght
She dooth hir bisynesse / and al hir myght
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And by hir beddes heed / she made a Muwe
And couered it / with veluettes blue
In signe of trouthe / that is in wommen sene
And al with oute / the Muwe is peynted grene
In which were peynted / alle thise false fowles
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As been thise tydyues / terceletz / and Owles
Right for despit were peynted hem bisyde
And Pyes / on hem / for to crye / and chyde
¶ Thus lete I Canacee / hir hauk kepyng
I wol namoore as now / speke of hir ryng
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Til it come eft to purpos for to seyn
How that this Faukon / gat hir loue ageyn
Repentant / as the storie telleth vs
By mediacion / of Cambalus
The kynges sone / of which I to yow tolde
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But hennes fort I wol my proces holde
To speke of auentures / and of batailles
That neuere yet was herd / so greet meruailles
¶ First wol I telle yow / of Cambyuskan
That in his tyme / many a Citee wan
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¶ And after / wol I speke / of Algarsyf
How that he wan / Theodora to his wyf
For whom ful ofte / in gret peril he was
Ne hadde he been holpen / by the Steede of bras
¶ And after / wol I speke of Cambalo
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That faught in lystes / with the bretheren two
For Canacee / er that he myghte hir wynne
And ther I lefte / I wol ayein bigynne
¶ Explicit secunda pars ~