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

                                
                                  I slow Sampson / shakyng the piler
                                
                                  And myne be / the maladies colde
                                
                                  The derke tresons / and the castes olde
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                                  My lookyng is the fader of pestilence
                                
                                  Now weep namoore / I shal doon diligence
                                
                                  That Palamon / that is thyn owene knyght
                                
                                  Shal haue his lady / as thow hast hym hight
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                                  Thogh Mars shal helpe his knyght yet nathelees
                                
                                  Bitwixe yow / ther moot be som tyme pees
                                
                                  Al be ye noght of o complexion
                                
                                  That causeth al day / swich diuision
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                                  I am thyn Aiel / redy at thy wille
                                
                                  Weepe now namoore / I wol thy lust fulfille
                                
                                  ¶ Now wol I stynten / of the goddes aboue
                                
                                  Of Mars / and of Venus / goddesse of loue
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                                  And telle yow / as pleynly as I kan
                                
                                  The grete effect . for which þat I bigan [[No gap in the MS.]] 
                                
                                  ¶ Greet was the feeste / in Atthenes that day
                                
                                  And eek the lusty seson / of that May
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                                  Made euery wight to been in swich plesaunce
                                
                                  That al that monday / Iusten they and daunce
                                
                                  And spenden it in Venus heigh seruyse
                                
                                  And by the cause / þat they sholde ryse
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                                  Erly / for to seen the grete sight
                                
                                  Vn to hir reste / wente they at nyght
                                
                                  And on the morwe / whan the day gan sprynge
                                
                                  Of hors and harneys / noyse and claterynge
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                                  Ther was in hostelryes / al aboute
                                
                                  And to the paleys / rood ther many a route
                                
                                  Of lordes / vp on steedes and palfreys
                                
                                  Ther maistow seen / deuysynge of harneys
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                                  So vnkouth / and so ryche / and wroght so weel [folio 33b] 
                                
                                  Of Goldsmythrye / of Broudyng and of steel

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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 71
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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