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

                                
                                  Arrayed was this god / as he took keepe
                                
                                  As he was / whan þat Argus took his sleepe
                                
                                  And seyde hym thus / to Atthenes shaltow wende
                                
                                  Ther is thee shapen / of thy wo an ende
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                                  ¶ And with that word / Arcite wook and sterte
                                
                                  Now trewely / how sore þat me smerte
                                
                                  Quod he / to Atthenes right now wol I fare
                                
                                  Ne for the drede of deeth / shal I nat spare
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                                  To se my lady / þat I loue and serue
                                
                                  In hir presence / I recche nat to sterue
                                
                                  ¶ And with that word / he caughte a greet Mirour
                                
                                  And saugh / þat chaunged was al his colour
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                                  And saugh his visage / al in another kynde
                                
                                  And right anoon / it ran hym in his mynde
                                
                                  That sith his face / was so disfigured
                                
                                  Of maladie / the which he hadde endured
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                                  He myghte wel / if þat he bar hym lowe
                                
                                  Lyue in Atthenes / eueremoore vnknowe
                                
                                  And seen his lady / wel ny / day by day
                                
                                  And right anoon / he chaunged his array
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                                  And cladde hym / as a poure laborer
                                
                                  And al allone / saue oonly a Squyer
                                
                                  That knew his pryuetee / and al his cas
                                
                                  Which was disgised / pourely as he was
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                                  To Atthenes / is he goon / the nexte way
                                
                                  And to the Court he wente vp on a day
                                
                                  And at the gate / he profreth his seruyse
                                
                                  To drugge and drawe / what so men wol deuyse
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                                  ¶ And shortly / of this matere / for to seyn
                                
                                  He fil in office / with a Chambreleyn
                                
                                  The which / þat dwellyng was with Emelye
                                
                                  ffor he was wys / and koude soone espye
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                                  Of euery seruant which þat serueth here
                                
                                  Wel koude he / hewen wode / and water bere
                                
                                  ffor he was yong. and myghty for the nones [folio 20a] 
                                
                                  And ther to / he was strong and byg of bones

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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 41
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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