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

                                
                                  And hereth hym / come russhynge in the greues
                                
                                  And breketh / bothe bowes / and the leues
                                
                                  And thynketh / here cometh my mortal enemy
                                
                                  With oute faille / he moot be deed / or .I.
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                                  ffor outher / I moot sleen hym / at the gappe
                                
                                  Or he moot sle me / if þat me myshappe
                                
                                  So ferden they / in chaungyng of hir hewe
                                
                                  As fer / as euerich / oother of hem knewe
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                                  ¶ Ther nas no good day / ne no saluynge
                                
                                  But streight with outen word / or rehersynge
                                
                                  Euerich of hem / heelp for to armen oother
                                
                                  As frendly / as he weere / his owene brother
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                                  And after that / with sharpe speres stronge
                                
                                  They foynen / ech at oother / wonder longe
                                
                                  Thou myghtest wene / þat this Palamon
                                
                                  In his fightynge were a wood leon
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                                  And as a crewel Tygre / was Arcite
                                
                                  As wilde boores / gonnen they to smyte
                                
                                  That frothen / whit as foom / for Ire wood
                                
                                  Vp to the Anclees / foghte they in hir blood
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                                  And in this wise / I lete hem fightyng dwelle
                                
                                  And forth I wole / of Theseus yow telle
                                
                                  ¶ The destynee / Ministre general [folio 23a] 
                                
                                  That executeth / in the world ouer al
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                                  The purueiance / that god hath seyn biforn
                                
                                  So stroong it is / þat thogh the world hadde sworn
                                
                                  The contrarie of a thyng by ye / or nay
                                
                                  Yet som tyme / it shal fallen on a day
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                                  That falleth nat eft / with Inne a thousand yeer
                                
                                  ffor certeinly / oure appetites heer
                                
                                  Be it of werre / or pees / or hate / or loue
                                
                                  Al is this ruled / by the sighte aboue
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                                  ¶ This mene I now / by myghty Theseus
                                
                                  That for to hunten / is so desirus
                                
                                  And namely / at the grete hert in May
                                
                                  That in his bed / ther daweth hym no day

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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 48
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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