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

                                
                                  And he weere caught. it was acorded thus
                                
                                  That with a swerd / he sholde lese his heed
                                
                                  Ther nas noon oother / remedye ne reed
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                                  But taketh his leue / and homward he hym spedde
                                
                                  Lat hym be war / his nekke lyth to wedde
                                
                                  ¶ How greet a sorwe / suffreth now Arcite
                                
                                  The deeth he feeleth / thurgh his herte smyte
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                                  He wepeth / wayleth / cryeth pitously
                                
                                  To sleen hym self / he wayteth pryuely
                                
                                  He seyde allas / the day þat I was born [folio 17b] 
                                
                                  Now is my prison / worse than biforn
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                                  Now is me shape / eternally to dwelle
                                
                                  Noght in purgatorie / but in helle
                                
                                  Allas / þat euere knew I Parotheus
                                
                                  ffor ellis / hadde I dwelled with Theseus
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                                  Yfettred in his prison eueremo
                                
                                  Thanne hadde I been in blisse / and nat in wo
                                
                                  Oonly the sighte of hire / whom þat I serue
                                
                                  Thogh þat I neuere / hir grace may disserue
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                                  Wolde haue suffised / right ynogh for me
                                
                                  ¶ O deere cosyn / Palamon / quod he
                                
                                  Thyn is the victorie / of this auenture
                                
                                  fful blisfully in prison maystow dure
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                                  In prison? / nay certes / but in paradys
                                
                                  Wel hath ffortune / yturned thee / the dys
                                
                                  That hast the sighte of hire / and I thabsence
                                
                                  ffor possible is / syn thow hast hire presence
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                                  And art a knyght a worthy and an able
                                
                                  That by som caas / syn ffortune is chaungeable
                                
                                  Thow mayst to thy desir / som tyme atteyne
                                
                                  But I / that am exiled and bareyne
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                                  Of alle grace / and in so greet despeyr
                                
                                  That ther nys Erthe / water / fyr / ne Eyr
                                
                                  Ne creature / that of hem maked is
                                
                                  That may me helpe / or do confort in this
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                                  Wel oghte I sterue / in wanhope / and distresse

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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 36
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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