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

                                
                                  That if yow list I shal wel haue my loue
                                
                                  ¶ Thy temple / wol I worshipe euere mo
                                
                                  And on thyn Auter / wher I ryde or go
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                                  I wol doon sacrifice / and fyres beete
                                
                                  And if ye wol noght so / my lady sweete
                                
                                  Thanne praye I thee / to morwe with a spere
                                
                                  That Arcita / me thurgh the herte bere
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                                  Thanne rekke I noght whan I haue lost my lyf [folio 30b] 
                                
                                  Thogh þat Arcita / wynne hire to his wyf
                                
                                  This is theffect and ende of my prayere
                                
                                  Yif me my loue / thow blisful lady deere
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                                  ¶ Whan the orison was doon / of Palamon
                                
                                  His sacrifice he dide / and that anon
                                
                                  fful pitously / with alle circumstances
                                
                                  Al telle I nat as now / his obseruances
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                                  But at the laste / the Statue of Venus shook
                                
                                  And made a signe / wher by þat he took
                                
                                  That his prayere / accepted was that day
                                
                                  ffor thogh the signe / shewed a delay
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                                  Yet wiste he wel / þat graunted was his boone
                                
                                  And with glad herte / he wente hym hoom ful soone
                                
                                  ¶ The thridde hour in equal / þat Palamon
                                
                                  Bigan / to Venus temple / for to gon
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                                  Vp roos the soone / and vp roos Emelye
                                
                                  And to the temple of Diane / gan hye
                                
                                  Hir maydens / þat she thider with hire ladde
                                
                                  fful redily with hem / the fyr they hadde
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                                  Thencens / the clothes / and the remenant al
                                
                                  That to the sacrifice / longen shal
                                
                                  The hornes ful of Mede / as was the gyse
                                
                                  Ther lakked noght to doon hir sacrifise
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                                  ¶ Smokynge the temple / ful of clothes faire
                                
                                  This Emelye / with herte debonaire
                                
                                  Hir body wessh / with water of a welle
                                
                                  But hou she dide hir ryte / I dar nat telle
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                                  But it be / any thyng in general

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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 65
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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