Crossword-Solution: CANACE 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Ther was a king which Eolus Was hote, and it befell him thus, That he tuo children hadde faire, The Sone cleped was Machaire, The dowhter ek Canace hihte.

But certainly no worde writeth he Of *thilke wick’* example of Canace, *that wicked* That loved her own brother sinfully; (Of all such cursed stories I say, Fy), Or else of Tyrius Apollonius, How that the cursed king Antiochus Bereft his daughter of her maidenhead; That is so horrible a tale to read, When he her threw upon the pavement.

Wherefore, against this lusty summer-tide, This mirror, and this ring that ye may see, He hath sent to my lady Canace, Your excellente daughter that is here.

Thus hath the kite my love in her service, And I am lorn* withoute remedy.” *lost, undone And with that word this falcon gan to cry, And swooned eft* in Canacee’s barme** *again **lap Great was the sorrow, for that hawke’s harm, That Canace and all her women made; They wist not how they might the falcon glade.* *gladden But Canace home bare her in her lap, And softely in plasters gan her wrap, There as she with her beak had hurt herselve.

Now cannot Canace but herbes delve Out of the ground, and make salves new Of herbes precious and fine of hue, To heale with this hawk; from day to night She did her business, and all her might.