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

                                
                                  Whan þat hir housbondes / been from hem ago
                                
                                  That for the moore part they sorwen so
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                                  Or ellis fallen / in swich a maladye
                                
                                  That at the laste / certeinly they dye
                                
                                  ¶ Infinite / been the sorwes and the teerys
                                
                                  Of olde folk . and folk of tendre yeerys
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                                  In all the town for the deeth of this Theban
                                
                                  ffor hym ther wepeth bothe child a[nd] man
                                
                                  So greet wepyng was ther noon certayn
                                
                                  Whan Ector was broght al fressh yslayn
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                                  To Troye / allas the pitee þat was ther
                                
                                  Cracchynge of chekes / rentyng eek of heer
                                
                                  Why woldestow be deed / thise wommen crye
                                
                                  And haddest gold ynow / and Emelye
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                                  ¶ No man / myghte gladen Theseus
                                
                                  Sauyng his olde fader Egeus
                                
                                  That knew / this worldes transmutacioun
                                
                                  As he hadde seyn it chaungen / bothe vp and down
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                                  Ioye after wo / and wo after gladnesse
                                
                                  And shewed hem / ensample and lyknesse
                                
                                  ¶ Right as ther deyed neuere man / quod he [Argumentum.] 
                                
                                  That he ne lyued in erthe / in som degree
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                                  Right so / ther lyued neuere man he seyde
                                
                                  In al this world / þat som tyme he ne deyde
                                
                                  This world nys but a thurghfare / ful of wo
                                
                                  And we been pilgrymes / passynge to and fro
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                                  Deeth is an ende / of euery worldly soore
                                
                                  And ouer al this / yet seyde he muchel moore
                                
                                  To this effect ful wysly / to enhorte
                                
                                  The peple / that they sholde hem reconforte
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                                  ¶ Duc Theseus / with al his bisy cure
                                
                                  Caste now / wher that the sepulture
                                
                                  Of goode Arcite / may best ymaked be
                                
                                  And eek moost honurable / in his degree
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                                  And at the laste / he took conclusion [folio 38a] 
                                
                                  That ther / as first Arcite and Palamon

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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 81
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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