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

                                
                                  ¶ Whan þat Arcite / to Thebes comen was
                                
                                  fful ofte a day / he swelte / and seyde allas
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                                  ffor seen his lady / shal he neuere mo
                                
                                  And shortly / to concluden al his wo
                                
                                  So muchel sorwe / hadde neuere creature
                                
                                  That is or shal / whil þat the world may dure
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                                  ¶ His sleepe / his mete / his drynke / is hym biraft
                                
                                  That leene he weex / and drye as is a shaft
                                
                                  Hise eyen holwe / and grisly to biholde
                                
                                  His hewe falow / and pale as asshen colde
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                                  And solitarie he was / and euere alloone
                                
                                  And waillynge al the nyght. makynge his moone
                                
                                  And if he herde / soong or Instrument
                                
                                  Thanne wolde he wepe / he myghte nat be stent
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                                  So feble eek were his spiritz / and so lowe
                                
                                  And chaunged so / þat no man koude knowe
                                
                                  His speche / nor his voys / thogh men it herde
                                
                                  And in his gere / for al the world he ferde
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                                  Nat oonly / lyk the loueris maladye
                                
                                  Of Hereos / but rather lyk Manye [Mania] 
                                
                                  Engendred / of humour malencolyk
                                
                                  Biforn his Celle fantastyk
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                                  And shortly / turned was / al vp so down
                                
                                  Bothe habit and eek disposicioun
                                
                                  Of hym / this woful louere daun Arcite
                                
                                  ¶ What sholde I al day / of his wo endite
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                                  Whanne he endured hadde / a yeer / or two
                                
                                  This cruel torment and this peyne and wo
                                
                                  At Thebes in his contree / as I seyde [folio 19b] 
                                
                                  Vp on a nyght in sleep / as he hym leyde
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                                  Hym thoughte / how þat the wynged god Mercurye
                                
                                  Biforn hym stood / and bad hym to be murye
                                
                                  His slepy yerde / in honde he bar vp righte
                                
                                  An hat he wered / vp on his herys brighte

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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 40
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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