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

                                
                                  And with that word / the Arwes in the Caas
                                
                                  Of the goddesse / clateren faste and rynge
                                
                                  And forth she wente / and made a vanysshynge
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                                  ffor which / this Emelye astoned was
                                
                                  And seyde / what amounteth this allas
                                
                                  I putte me / in thy proteccion
                                
                                  Diane / and in thy disposicion
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                                  And hoom she gooth anoon / the nexte weye
                                
                                  This is theffect ther nys namoore to seye
                                
                                  ¶ The nexte houre of Mars / folwynge this
                                
                                  Arcite / vn to the temple walked is
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                                  Of fierse Mars / to doon his sacrifise
                                
                                  With alle the rytes / of his payen wise
                                
                                  With pitous herte / and heigh deuocion
                                
                                  Right thus to Mars / he seyde his orison
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                                  ¶ O stronge god / þat in the regnes colde
                                
                                  Of Trace / honoured art and lord yholde
                                
                                  And hast in euery regne / and euery lond
                                
                                  Of armes / al the brydel in thyn hond
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                                  And hem fortunest as thee list deuyse [folio 32a] 
                                
                                  Accepte of me / my pitous sacrifise
                                
                                  If so be / þat my youthe may disserue
                                
                                  And þat my myght be worthy for to serue
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                                  Thy godhede / þat I may be oon of thyne
                                
                                  Thanne praye I thee / to rewe vp on my pyne
                                
                                  ffor thilke peyne / and thilke hote fyr
                                
                                  In which / thow whilom brendest for desir
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                                  Whan þat thow vsedest the beautee
                                
                                  Of faire yonge / fresshe Venus free
                                
                                  And haddest hire in armes at thy wille
                                
                                  Al though thee ones / on a tyme mysfille
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                                  Whan Vulcanus / hadde caught thee in his laas
                                
                                  And foond thee lyggyng by his wyf allas
                                
                                  ffor thilke sorwe / þat was in thyn herte
                                
                                  Haue routhe as wel / vp on my peynes smerte
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                                  I am yong / and vnkonnyng as thow woost/

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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 68
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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