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

                                
                                  And in þe rescous of þis Palamon
                                
                                  The stronge kinge Ligurge is borne a doune
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                                  And kenge Emetrius for al his strenkeþ
                                
                                  Is borne owte of his sadel a swerdes lengeþ
                                
                                  So it him Palamon ar he were take
                                
                                  Bote al for nouht brouht he was to þe stake
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                                  His hardy herde myht him helpe nouht
                                
                                  He moste abide whan þat he was cauht
                                
                                  Be force and eke be composicione
                                
                                  Who sorewþe nowe Bot woful palamone [VIII. 123.] 
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                                  That moote no more gone aȝeine to fiht
                                
                                  And whan þat Theseus had seen þis siht
                                
                                  He criede ho no more for it is done
                                
                                  Ne none schal longer to his felowe gone.
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                                  .I. will be trewe Iugge and not partie [folio 33b] 
                                
                                  ArCite Of Thebes Schal haue Emelye
                                
                                  That be his fortune haþe hire faire ywonne
                                
                                  Anone þer is a noise of peple be-gunne
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                                  ffor Ioy of þis so lowde and lihte wiþ al
                                
                                  It semed þat þe listes scholde fal
                                
                                  ¶ Whan kan nowe faire venus done aboue
                                
                                  What seiþe sche nowe what doþe þis queene of loue
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                                  Bot wepeþ so for wantynge of hire wille
                                
                                  Til þat hire teres in þe listes fille
                                
                                  Sche seide .I. am aschamede dowteles
                                
                                  Saturnus seide douhter holde þi pes
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                                  Mars haþ his wil his knyht haþe al his bone
                                
                                  And be my hede þou schalte bene esed sone
                                
                                  ¶ The trompoures wiþ þe loude menstralcie
                                
                                  The heraudes þat ful loude ȝelle and crie
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                                  Ben in here wele for ioye of dann Arcite
                                
                                  Bot herkeneþ me and stinte noy a lite
                                
                                  Whiche a miracle þere be-fel anone
                                
                                  This fers Arcite haþe of his helme. y-done [VIII. 131.] 
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                                  And on a koursour for to schewe his face
                                
                                  He Prikkeþe endlonge þe large place

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 76
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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