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

                                
                                  This sorweful prisoner / this Palamon
                                
                                  Gooth in the chambre / romyng to and fro
                                
                                  And to hym self / compleynyng of his wo
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                                  That he was born / ful ofte he seyde allas
                                
                                  And so bifel / by auenture / or cas
                                
                                  That thurgh a wyndow / thikke of many a barre
                                
                                  Of Iren greet and square as any sparre
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                                  He caste his eye / vp on Emelya
                                
                                  And ther with al he bleynte / and cryde .A.
                                
                                  As thogh / he stongen weere / vn to the herte
                                
                                  ¶ And with that cry / Arcite anoon vp sterte
                                  Line 1080 
                                
                                  And seyde cosyn myn / what eyleth thee
                                
                                  That art so pale / and deedly on to see
                                
                                  Why cridestow / who hath thee doon offence
                                
                                  ffor goddes loue / tak al in pacience
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                                  Oure prison / for it may noon oother be
                                
                                  ffortune hath yeuen vs this aduersitee
                                
                                  Som wikked aspect or disposicion
                                
                                  Of Saturne / by som constellacion
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                                  Hath yeuen vs this / al thogh we hadde it sworn
                                
                                  So stood the heuene / whan þat we were born
                                
                                  We mote endure it this is the short and playn
                                
                                  This Palamon answerde / and seyde agayn
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                                  ¶ Cosyn for sothe / of this opinion
                                
                                  Thow hast a vayn ymaginacion
                                
                                  This prison / caused me noght to crye
                                
                                  But I was hurt right now / thurgh out myn Iye
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                                  In to myn herte / that wol my bane be
                                
                                  The fairnesse / of that lady þat I se
                                
                                  Yond in the gardyn / romen to and fro
                                
                                  Is cause / of al my cryyng and my wo
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                                  I noot wher she be womman / or goddesse
                                
                                  But Venus / is it soothly as I gesse
                                
                                  And ther with al / on knees down he fil [folio 16a] 
                                
                                  And seyde / Venus if it be thy wil
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                                  Yow in this gardyn / thus to transfigure

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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 32
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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