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

                                
                                  With outen doute / it moot stonden so
                                
                                  The answere of this / lete I to diuynys
                                
                                  But wel I woot þat in this world / greet pyne is
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                                  ¶ Allas / I se a serpent or a theef
                                
                                  That many a trewe man / hath doon mescheef
                                
                                  Goon at his large / and where hym lust may turne
                                
                                  But I moot been in prison / thurgh Saturne
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                                  And eek thurgh Juno / Ialous / and eek wood
                                
                                  That hath destroyed / wel neigh al the blood
                                
                                  Of Thebes / with his waste walles wyde
                                
                                  And Venus / sleeth me / on that oother syde
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                                  ffor Ialousie / and feere / of hym Arcite
                                
                                  ¶ Now wol I stynte / of Palamon alite
                                
                                  And lete hym / in his prison stille dwelle
                                
                                  And of Arcita / forth I wol yow telle
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                                  ¶ The Somer / and the nyghtes longe
                                
                                  Encreecen / double wise / the peynes stronge
                                
                                  Bothe of the louere / and the prisoner
                                
                                  I noot which hath / the sorwefuller myster
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                                  ffor soothly for to seyn / this Palamon
                                
                                  Perpetuelly / is dampned to prison
                                
                                  In cheynes / and in fettres / to been deed [folio 19a] 
                                
                                  And Arcite / is exiled / vp on his heed
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                                  ffor euere mo / as out of that contree
                                
                                  Ne neueremo / ne shal his lady see
                                
                                  ¶ Yow loueris / axe I now / this question
                                
                                  Who hath the worse / Arcite / or Palamon
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                                  That oon may seen his lady / day by day
                                
                                  But in prison / moot he dwelle alwey
                                
                                  That oother where hym list may ride or go
                                
                                  But seen his lady / shal he neuere mo
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                                  Now demeth as yow list ye þat kan
                                
                                  ffor I wol telle forth / as .I. bigan

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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 39
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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