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

                                
                                  And Arcita / that in the Court roial
                                
                                  With Theseus / Squyer principal
                                
                                  Is risen / and looketh on the murye day
                                
                                  And for to doon / his obseruance to May
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                                  Remembrynge / on the point of his desir
                                
                                  He on a Courser / startlynge as the fir
                                
                                  Is riden in to the feldes / hym to pleye [folio 21a] 
                                
                                  Out of the Court. were it a myle / or tweye
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                                  And to the groue / of which þat I yow tolde
                                
                                  By auenture / his wey he gan to holde
                                
                                  To maken hym / a gerland of the greues
                                
                                  Were it of wodebynde / or hawethorn leues
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                                  And loude he soong. ayein the sonne shene
                                
                                  May / with alle thy floures / and thy grene
                                
                                  Wel come be thow / faire fresshe May
                                
                                  In hope / þat I som grene gete may
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                                  And from his courser / with a lusty herte
                                
                                  In to the groue / ful hastily he sterte
                                
                                  And in a path / he rometh vp and doun
                                
                                  Ther as by auenture / this Palamon
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                                  Was in a bussh / þat no man myghte hym se
                                
                                  ffor soore afered / of his deeth was he
                                
                                  No thyng knew he / þat it was Arcite
                                
                                  God woot he wolde haue trowed it ful lite
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                                  But sooth is seyd / go sithen many yeris
                                
                                  That feeld hath eyen / and the wode hath erys
                                
                                  It is ful fair / a man to bere hym euene
                                
                                  ffor alday meeten men / at vnset steuene
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                                  fful litel woot Arcite / of his felawe,
                                
                                  That was so neigh / to herknen al his sawe
                                
                                  ffor in the bussh / he sitteth now ful stille
                                
                                  ¶ Whan þat Arcite / hadde romed al his fille
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                                  And songen al the roundel lustily
                                
                                  In to a studie / he fil sodeynly
                                
                                  As doon thise louerys / in hir queynte gerys
                                
                                  Now in the crope / now down in the brerys

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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 44
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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