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

                                
                                  To speken / of a seruaunt proprely
                                
                                  With circumstaunces alle / trewely
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                                  That is to seyn / trouthe / honour / knyghthede
                                
                                  Wisdom / humblesse / estaat / and heigh kynrede
                                
                                  ffredom / and al / that longeth to that art
                                
                                  So Iuppiter / haue of my soule part
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                                  As in this world / right now ne knowe I non
                                
                                  So worthy to been loued / as Palamon
                                
                                  That serueth yow / and wol doon al his lyf
                                
                                  And if þat euere / ye shal been a wyf
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                                  fforyet nat Palamon / the gentil man
                                
                                  And with that word / his speche faille gan
                                
                                  ffor from his feet vp to his brest was come
                                
                                  The coold of deeth / þat hadde hym ouercome
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                                  And yet moore ouer / for in his armes two
                                
                                  The vital strengthe / is lost and al ago
                                
                                  Oonly the Intellect with oute moore
                                
                                  That dwelled in his herte / syk and soore
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                                  Gan faillen / whan the herte felte deeth
                                
                                  Dusked hise eyen two / and fayled breeth
                                
                                  But on his lady / yet caste he his eye
                                
                                  His laste word / was mercy Emelye
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                                  His spirit chaunged hous / and wente ther
                                
                                  As I cam neuere / I kan nat tellen wher
                                
                                  Therfore I stynte / I nam no dyuynystre
                                
                                  Of soules / fynde I nat in this Registre
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                                  Ne me ne lyst thilke opynyons to telle
                                
                                  Of hem / thogh þat they writen wher they dwelle
                                
                                  Arcite is coold / ther Mars his soule gye
                                
                                  Now wol I speken / forth of Emelye
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                                  ¶ Shrighte Emelye / and howleth Palamon [folio 37b] 
                                
                                  And Theseus / his suster took anon
                                
                                  Swownynge / and baar hire fro the corps away
                                
                                  What helpeth it to tarien forth the day
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                                  To tellen how she weepe / bothe eue and morwe
                                
                                  ffor in swich caas / wommen haue swich sorwe

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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 80
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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