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

                                
                                  And in the rescous / of this Palamon
                                
                                  The stronge kyng lygurge / is born adoun
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                                  And kyng Emetrius / for al his strengthe
                                
                                  Is born out of his sadel / a swerdes lengthe
                                
                                  So hitte hym Palamon / er he were take
                                
                                  But al for noght he was broght to the stake
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                                  His hardy herte / myghte hym helpe naught
                                
                                  He moste abyde / whan þat he was caught
                                
                                  By force / and eek by composicion
                                
                                  ¶ Who sorweth now / but woful Palamon
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                                  That moot namoore / goon agayn to fighte
                                
                                  And whan þat Theseus / hadde seen this sighte
                                
                                  Vn to the folk / that foghten thus echon
                                
                                  He cryde / hoo namoore / for it is doon
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                                  I wol be trewe Iuge / and nat partye [folio 35b] 
                                
                                  Arcite of Thebes / shal haue Emelye
                                
                                  That by his fortune / hath hire faire ywonne
                                
                                  Anon ther is a noyse of peple bigonne
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                                  ffor ioye of this / so loude and heigh with alle
                                
                                  It semed / þat the lystes sholde falle
                                
                                  ¶ What kan now faire Venus / doon aboue
                                
                                  What seith she now / what dooth this queene of loue
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                                  But wepeth so / for wantyng of hir wille
                                
                                  Til þat hir teerys / in the lystes fille
                                
                                  She seyde / I am ashamed doutelees
                                
                                  ¶ Saturnus seyde / doghter hoold thy pees
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                                  Mars hath his wyl / his knyght hath al his boone
                                
                                  And by myn heed / thow shalt been esed soone
                                
                                  ¶ The trompours / with the loude Mynstralcye
                                
                                  The heraudes / þat ful loude yelle and crye
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                                  Been in hir wele / for ioye of daun Arcite
                                
                                  But herkneth me / and stynteth noyse a lite
                                
                                  Which a myracle / ther bifel anon
                                
                                  ¶ This fierse Arcite / hath of his helm ydon
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                                  And on a Courser / for to shewe his face
                                
                                  He priketh / endelong the large place

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 76
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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