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

                                
                                  Bifore me / sorweful wrecched creature
                                
                                  Out of this prison / help þat we may scape
                                
                                  And if so be / my destynee be shape
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                                  By eterne word / to dyen in prison
                                
                                  Of oure lynage / haue som compassion
                                
                                  That is so lowe ybroght by tirannye
                                
                                  ¶ And with that word / Arcite gan espye
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                                  Where as this lady / romed to and fro
                                
                                  And with that sighte / hir beautee hurte hym so
                                
                                  That if þat Palamon / was wounded soore
                                
                                  Arcite is hurt. as muche as he / or moore
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                                  And with a syk /. he seyde pitously
                                
                                  The fresshe beautee / sleeth me sodeynly
                                
                                  Of hire / þat rometh in the yonder place
                                
                                  And but I haue / hir mercy / and hir grace
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                                  That I may seen hire / at the leeste weye
                                
                                  I nam but deed / ther nys namoore to seye
                                
                                  ¶ This Palamon / whan he tho wordes herde
                                
                                  Despitously he loked / and answerde
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                                  Wheither seistow this / in ernest or in pley
                                
                                  ¶ Nay quod Arcite / in ernest by my fey
                                
                                  God help me so / me list ful yuele pleye
                                
                                  This Palamon / gan knytte his browes tweye
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                                  ¶ It were to thee quod he / no greet honour
                                
                                  ffor to be fals / ne for to be traytour
                                
                                  To me / that am thy cosyn and thy brother
                                
                                  Ysworn ful depe / and ech of vs til oother
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                                  That neuere / for to dyen in the peyne
                                
                                  Til þat the deeth / departe shal vs tweyne
                                
                                  Neither of vs / in loue to hyndre oother
                                
                                  Ne in noon oother caas / my leeue brother
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                                  But þat thow sholdest trewely forthre me
                                
                                  In euery caas / and I shal forthren thee
                                
                                  This was thyn ooth / as myn also certeyn
                                
                                  I woot right wel / thow darst it nat withseyn
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                                  Thus artow of my conseil / out of doute

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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 33
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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