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

                                
                                  And heer agayns / no creature on lyue
                                
                                  Of no degree / auailleth for to stryue
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                                  ¶ Thanne is it wisdom / as it thynketh me
                                
                                  To maken vertu / of necessitee
                                
                                  And take it wel / þat we may nat eschue
                                
                                  And nameliche / that to vs alle is due
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                                  And who so gruccheth oght he dooth folye
                                
                                  And rebel is / to hym þat al may gye
                                
                                  And certeinly / a man hath moost honour
                                
                                  To dyen / in his excellence and flour
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                                  Whan he is siker / of his goode name
                                
                                  Thanne hath he doon / his freend ne hym no shame
                                
                                  And gladder oghte / his freend been of his deeth
                                
                                  Whan with honour / yolden is vp his breeth
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                                  Than whan his name / apalled is for age
                                
                                  ffor al forgeten is his vasselage
                                
                                  Thanne is it best as for a worthy fame
                                
                                  To dyen / whan he is best of name
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                                  ¶ The contrarie of al this / is wilfulnesse
                                
                                  Why grucchen we / why haue we heuynesse
                                
                                  That goode Arcite / of chiualrie flour [folio 40b] 
                                
                                  Departed is / with duetee / and with honour
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                                  Out of this foule prison / of this lyf
                                
                                  Why gruccheth heere / his cosyn and his wyf/
                                
                                  Of his welfare / þat loueth hem so weel
                                
                                  Kan he hem thank? nay good woot neuer a deel
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                                  That bothe his soule / and eek hem self offende
                                
                                  And yet they mowe / hir lustes nat amende
                                
                                  ¶ What may I conclude / of this longe serye
                                
                                  But after wo / I rede vs to be merye
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                                  And thanken Iuppiter / of al his grace
                                
                                  And er we / departen from this place
                                
                                  I rede we make / of sorwes two
                                
                                  O parfit Ioye / lastynge euere mo
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                                  And loketh now / wher moost sorwe is her Inne
                                
                                  Ther wol I first amenden and bigynne

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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 87
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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