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

                                
                                  Now vp / now down / as boket in a welle
                                
                                  Right as the friday / soothly for to telle
                                
                                  Now it shyneth / now it reyneth faste
                                
                                  Right so / kan gery Venus ouercaste
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                                  The hertes of hir folk. right as hir day
                                
                                  Is gerful / right so chaungeth she array
                                
                                  Selde is the friday / al the wike ylike
                                
                                  ¶ Whan þat Arcite hadde songe / he gan to syke
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                                  And sette hym down / with outen any moore
                                
                                  Allas quod he / that day / þat I was bore
                                
                                  How longe Iuno / thurgh thy crueltee [folio 21b] 
                                
                                  Woltow werreyen / Thebes the Citee
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                                  Allas / ybroght is to confusion
                                
                                  The blood roial / of Cadme and Amphion
                                
                                  ¶ Cadmus / which þat was the firste man
                                
                                  That Thebes bulte / and first bigan
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                                  And of the Citee / first was crowned kyng
                                
                                  Of his lynage am I / and his of-spryng
                                
                                  By verray ligne / as of the stok roial
                                
                                  And now I am / so caytyf and so thral
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                                  That he þat is / my mortal enemy
                                
                                  I serue hym / as his Squyer pourely
                                
                                  And yet dooth Iuno / me wel moore shame
                                
                                  ffor I dar noght biknowe myn owen name
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                                  But ther as I was wont to highte Arcite
                                
                                  Now highte I Philostrate / noght worth a myte
                                
                                  ¶ Allas thow felle Mars / allas Juno
                                
                                  Thus hath youre Ire / oure lynage al fordo
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                                  Saue oonly me / and wrecchid Palamon
                                
                                  That Theseus / martireth in prison
                                
                                  And ouer al this / to sleen me outrely
                                
                                  Loue hath his firy dart so brennyngly
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                                  Ystiked / thurgh my trewe careful herte
                                
                                  That shapen was my deeth / erst than my sherte
                                
                                  Ye sleen me with youre eyen / Emelye
                                
                                  Ye been the cause / wherfore þat .I. dye

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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 45
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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