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

                                
                                  As it were / in a lystes roially
                                
                                  ¶ This Palamon / answerde hastily
                                
                                  And seyde / sire / what nedeth wordes mo
                                
                                  We haue / the deeth / disserued bothe two
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                                  Two woful wrecches been we / two caytyues
                                
                                  That been encombred / of oure owene lyues
                                
                                  And as thou art a rightful lord and Iuge
                                
                                  Ne yeue vs / neither mercy ne refuge
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                                  But sle me first for seinte charitee
                                
                                  But sle my felawe eek as wel as me
                                
                                  Or sle hym first . for though thow knowest it lite
                                
                                  This is thy mortal foo / this is Arcite
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                                  That fro thy lond / is banysshed on his heed
                                
                                  ffor which / he hath deserued to be deed
                                
                                  ffor this is he / þat cam vn to thy gate
                                
                                  And seyde / þat he highte Philostrate
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                                  Thus hath he iaped thee / ful many a yer
                                
                                  And thou hast maked hym thy chief Squier
                                
                                  And this is he / that loueth Emelye
                                
                                  ffor sith the day is come / þat I shal dye
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                                  I make pleynly / my confession
                                
                                  That I am / thilke woful Palamon
                                
                                  That hath / thy prison broken wikkedly
                                
                                  I am thy mortal foo / and it am I
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                                  That loueth so hoote / Emelye the brighte
                                
                                  That I wol dye / present in hir sighte
                                
                                  Therfore I axe deeth / and my Iuwise
                                
                                  But sle my felawe / in the same wise
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                                  ffor bothe / han we deserued to be slayn
                                
                                  ¶ This worthy duc answerde anon agayn
                                
                                  And seyde / this is a short conclusion
                                
                                  Youre owene mouth / by youre confession
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                                  Hath dampned yow / and I wol it recorde
                                
                                  It nedeth noght / to pyne yow with the corde
                                
                                  Ye shal be deed / by myghty Mars the rede
                                
                                  ¶ The queene anon / for verray wommanhede

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 50
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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