The Squire's Tale
Folio 136v
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xxxx xx xnswerde / it nedeth nat reherse
xxx kan seyn bet than he / who kan doon werse
xhan he hath al wel seyd / thanne hath he doon
Ther fore bihoued hir / a ful long spoon
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That shal ete with a feend / thus herde I seye
So at the laste / he moste forth his weye
And forth he fleeth / til he cam ther hym leste
¶ Whan it cam hym / to purpos for to reste
I trowe he hadde / thilke text in mynde
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That alle thyng repeiryng to his kynde
Gladeth hym self / thus seyn men as I gesse
Men louen of propre kynde / Newfangelnesse
As bryddes doon / that men in Cages feede
For theigh thow / nyght and day / take of hem hede
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And strawe hir Cages / faire / and softe as sylk /
And yeue hem sugre / hony / breed / and Milk
Yet right anon / as þt his dore is vppe
He with his feet wol sporne doun his cuppe
And to the wode he wole / and wormes ete
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So newfangel / been they of hir mete
And louen nouelries / of propre kynde
No gentilesse of blood / may hem bynde
¶ So ferde this gentil tercelet allas the day
Thogh he were gentil born / and fressħ and gay
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And goodlich for to seen / and humble and free
He saw vp on a tyme / a kyte flee
And sodeynly / he loued this kyte so
That al his loue / is clene fro me ago
And hath his trouthe / falsed in this wise
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Thus hath the kyte / my loue in hir seruyse
And I am lorn / with outen remedye
And with that word / this Faukon gan to crye
And swowned eft / in Canacees barm
¶ Greet was the sorwe / for the haukes harm
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That Canacee / and alle hir wommen made
They nyste / how þt they myghte the Faukon glade
But Canacee / hom bereth hire / in hir lappe
And softely / in plastres gan hir wrappe
Ther as she with hir beek / hadde hurt hir selue
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¶ Now kan nat Canacee / but herbes delue