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

                                
                                  And now / thow woldest falsly been aboute
                                
                                  To loue my lady / whom I loue and serue [folio 16b] 
                                
                                  And euere shal / til þat myn herte sterue
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                                  Now certes false Arcite / thow shalt nat so
                                
                                  I loued hire first and tolde thee my wo
                                
                                  As to my conseil / and my brother sworn
                                
                                  To forthre me / as I haue told biforn
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                                  ffor which / thow art ybounden / as a knyght
                                
                                  To helpe me / if it laye in thy myght
                                
                                  Or ellis artow fals / I dar wel sayn
                                
                                  This Arcite / ful proudly spak agayn
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                                  ¶ Thow shalt quod he / be rather fals than I.
                                
                                  And thow art fals / I telle thee outrely
                                
                                  ffor paramour / I loued hire first er thow
                                
                                  What wiltow seyn / thow woost nat yet now
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                                  Wheither she be a womman / or goddesse
                                
                                  Thyn is / affeccion of holynesse
                                
                                  And myn is loue / as to a creature
                                
                                  ffor which / I tolde thee myn auenture
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                                  As to my cosyn / and my brother sworn
                                
                                  I pose / that thow louedest hire biforn
                                
                                  Wostow nat wel / the olde clerkes sawe
                                
                                  That who shal / yeue a louere any lawe // [Quis legem det amantibus.] 
                                
                                  Loue is a gretter lawe / by my pan
                                
                                  Than may be yeue / to any erthely man
                                
                                  And therfore / posityf lawe / and swich decree
                                
                                  Is broke al day for loue / in ech degree
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                                  A man moot nedes loue / maugree his heed
                                
                                  He may nat fleen it / thogh he sholde be deed
                                
                                  Al be she mayde / wydwe / or ellis wyf
                                
                                  And eek it is nat likly / al thy lyf
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                                  To stonden in hir grace / namoore shal .I.
                                
                                  ffor wel thow woost thy self verraily
                                
                                  That thow and I / been dampned to prison
                                
                                  Perpetuelly / vs gayneth no raunson
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                                  We stryue / as dide the houndes for the boon

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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 34
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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