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

                                
                                  This sorweful prisonere þis Palamon
                                
                                  Goþe in his chambre romeynge to and froo
                                
                                  And to him selfe compleinynge of his woo
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                                  þat he was borne ful oft seide alas
                                
                                  And so be-fel be aventure or cas
                                
                                  That þorghe a window þikke of mony a barre [III. 11.] 
                                
                                  Of yren grete and sware as any sparre
                                  Line 1076 
                                
                                  He kest his Eyen vpon Emelya
                                
                                  And þere wiþ al he bleynte and criede A [. . . tutto stordito, Gridò, Omè!] 
                                
                                  As þouhe he stongen were vn to þe herte [III. 17.] 
                                
                                  And wiþ þat crie Arcite anone vp sterte
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                                  And seide Cosine myne what eyleþ þe
                                
                                  þat ert so pale and dedely on to see
                                
                                  Whi cridest þou who haþ þe done offence
                                
                                  ffor goddes loue tak al in pacience
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                                  Owre prisonynge for it maie none oþere be
                                
                                  ffortune haþe ȝeue vs þis aduersite
                                
                                  Som wikked aspect or disposicione
                                
                                  Of Saturne be sum constillacione
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                                  Haþe ȝeuen vs þis al-þowhe we had it sworne
                                
                                  So stode þe heuen whan þat we were borne
                                
                                  We most endure it þis is þe schorte and pleine
                                
                                  ¶ This Palamon Ansewarde and seide a-gayne.
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                                  Cosine for soþe of þis Opinione [folio 15a] 
                                
                                  Thou hast a veine ymaginacione
                                
                                  This prisonment caused not me to crie
                                
                                  Bot .I. was hurte riht nowe þoruhe-oute myn eye [III. 16.] 
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                                  In to myne hert þat wil my bane be [III. 20.] 
                                
                                  The fairnesse of þat ladi þat .I. se
                                
                                  Ȝonde in þe Gardeine Romeynge to and froo
                                
                                  Is cause of al my cryinge and woo
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                                  .I. note where sche be womman or goddes
                                
                                  Bot venus is it soþeli as .I. ges [III. 14.] 
                                
                                  And þerewiþal on knes downe he fylle
                                
                                  And seide venus if it be þi wille
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                                  Þou in þis Gardine þus to transfigure

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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 32
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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