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

                                
                                  ¶ Be proces and be lengthe of certein ȝeres
                                
                                  Al stinte is þe morneynge and þe teres [XII. 3, 'giorni,' instead of years.] 
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                                  Of Greges be one general assent
                                
                                  Than semede þare was A parlement
                                
                                  Att Athenes vppon a certeine pointe and caas
                                
                                  A-monge þe whiche poyntes spoken was
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                                  To haue wiþ certein crontres alliaunce
                                
                                  And haue fully of Thebane obeisaunce
                                
                                  ffor whiche þis noble Theseus a-none
                                
                                  Lete sende after gentil Palamone [XII. 4.] 
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                                  Vnwiste of him whatt was þe cause and whie
                                
                                  Bot in his blake cloþes sorwfully
                                
                                  He came att his commandement in hye.
                                
                                  Tho sente Theseus for faire Emelye
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                                  Whan þei were sett and huyst was in þe place [XII. 5.] 
                                
                                  And Theseus abiden haþ a space
                                
                                  Or any worde cam fro his wise breste
                                
                                  His eyȝen sett he þere as was his leste
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                                  And wiþ a sadde visage he siked stille
                                
                                  And af[t]erward riht þus his wille
                                
                                  ¶ The firste mouere of þe cause aboue [IX. 51.] 
                                
                                  Whan he first maade þe faire cheine of loue [mondo, for cheine of loue.'] 
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                                  Grete was þeffect . and hihe was his entente
                                
                                  Wele wiste he whi . and what þere-of he mente [IX. 51.] 
                                
                                  ffor wiþ þat faire cheine of loue he bonde
                                
                                  The fire þe Aire . þe watere and þe londe.
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                                  In certeine boundes þat þei maie nouht fle [folio 37b] 
                                
                                  That same prince and þat meuer quod he [[See IX. 51, 52, and XII. 6.]] 
                                
                                  Haþ stabled in þis wrechede werlde a-doun
                                
                                  Certeine daies and d[omi]nacioun
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                                  To al þat ben engrendred in þis place
                                
                                  Ouere þe whiche daie þei maie nouht pace
                                
                                  All mowe þei ȝute þo daies a-brugge
                                
                                  There nedeþ none auctorite to lugge.
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                                  ffor it is proued be experience
                                
                                  Bot þat me lust declaren my sentence

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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 85
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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