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

                                
                                  Ne may the venym / voyden ne expelle
                                
                                  The pipes of his longes / gan to swelle
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                                  And euery lacerte / in his brest adown
                                
                                  Is shent with venym and corrupcioun
                                
                                  Hym gayneth neither / for to gete his lyf
                                
                                  Vomyt vpward / ne downward laxatyf
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                                  Al is to brosten / thilke regioun
                                
                                  Nature / hath no dominacioun
                                
                                  And certeinly / ther nature wol nat werche
                                
                                  ffare wel Phisyk . go ber the man to cherche
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                                  This al and som / þat Arcita moot dye
                                
                                  ffor which / he sendeth after Emelye
                                
                                  And Palamon / þat was his cosyn deere
                                
                                  Thanne seyde he thus / as ye shal after heere
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                                  ¶ Nat may the woful spirit in myn herte
                                
                                  Declare a point of alle my sorwes smerte
                                
                                  To yow my lady / þat I loue moost
                                
                                  But I byquethe / the seruice of my goost
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                                  To yow / abouen euery creature
                                
                                  Syn þat my lyf / may no lenger dure
                                
                                  Allas the wo / allas the peynes stronge
                                
                                  That I for yow haue suffred / and so longe
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                                  Allas the deeth / allas myn Emelye [folio 37a] 
                                
                                  Allas / departyng of oure compaignye
                                
                                  Allas myn hertes queene / allas my wif
                                
                                  Myn hertes lady / endere of my lyf
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                                  What is this world / what axeth men to haue
                                
                                  Now with his loue / now in his colde graue
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . .
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                                  ¶ I haue heer / with my cosyn Palamon
                                
                                  Had stryf and rancour / many a day gon
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                                  ffor loue of yow / and for my Ialousye
                                
                                  And Iuppiter / so wys my soule gye

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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 79
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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