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

                                
                                  With othere rytes mo / and at the laste
                                
                                  ¶ The statue of Mars / bigan his hauberk rynge
                                
                                  And with that sown / he herde a murmurynge
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                                  fful lowe and dym / and seyde thus / Victorie
                                
                                  ffor which / he yaf to Mars / honour and glorie
                                
                                  ¶ And thus with ioye / and hope / wel to fare
                                
                                  Arcite anoon / vn to his In is fare
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                                  As fayn as fowel / is of the brighte sonne
                                
                                  ¶ And right anoon / swich stryf ther is bigonne
                                
                                  ffor thilke grauntyng in the heuene aboue
                                
                                  Bitwixe Venus / the goddesse of loue
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                                  And Mars / the sterne god armipotente
                                
                                  That Iuppiter / was bisy it to stente
                                
                                  Til þat the pale / Saturnus the colde
                                
                                  That knew so manye / of auentures olde
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                                  ffoond in his olde experience / an art
                                
                                  That he ful soone / hath plesed euery part
                                
                                  As sooth is seyd / elde hath greet auantage
                                
                                  In elde / is bothe wisdom and vsage
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                                  Men may the olde atrenne and nat atrede
                                
                                  Saturne anoon / to stynten stryf and drede
                                
                                  Al be it / þat it is agayn his kynde
                                
                                  Of al this stryf he kan remedie fynde
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                                  ¶ My deere doghter Venus / quod Saturne
                                
                                  My cours / that hath so wyde for to turne
                                
                                  Hath moore power / than woot any man
                                
                                  Myn is the drenchyng in the See so wan
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                                  Myn is the prison / in the derke cote [folio 33a] 
                                
                                  Myn is the stranglyng and hangyng by the throte
                                
                                  The murmur / and the cherles rebellynge
                                
                                  The groynyng and the pryuee empoysonynge
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                                  I do vengeance / and pleyn correccion
                                
                                  Whil I dwelle / in the signe of the leon
                                
                                  Myn is the ruyne / of the heighe halles
                                
                                  The fallyng of the toures / and of the walles
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                                  Vp on the Mynour / or the Carpenter

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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 70
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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