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

                                
                                  Be-for me sorweful wriched creature
                                
                                  Owte of þis prison helpe þat we maie scape
                                
                                  And if so be my destanye be schape
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                                  Bi eterne werlde to dyȝen in prisōne
                                
                                  Of owre linage haue some compassiōne
                                
                                  þat is so lowe y-brouht be tirannye
                                
                                  ¶ And wiþ þat worde Arcite gan aspie
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                                  Where þat þis ladi romede to and fro
                                
                                  And wiþ þat siht hire beaute hurte him so
                                
                                  That if palamon was wounded sore [III. 16-17. (reversing the or|der of the names.)] 
                                
                                  Arcite is hurte as muche as he or more
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                                  And wiþ a sike he seide Pitously
                                
                                  The frische bewte sleþe me sodeynly
                                
                                  Of hir þat romeþ in þat ȝonder place
                                
                                  And bot .I. haue hir merci and hir grace
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                                  That .I. maie seen hire att þe lest weie
                                
                                  .I. ne am bot dede þer nys no more to seie
                                
                                  This Palamon whan he þes wordes herde
                                
                                  Dispitusli he loked and and Answerde
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                                  Wheþer seistowe þou þis in ernest or in pleye
                                
                                  Naie quod Arcite in ernest be my feye
                                
                                  God helpe me so me list fu yuel pleie
                                
                                  This Palamon gan knyte his browes tweie
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                                  Itt weere to þe quod he no grete honour [The whole debate in prison is an imitation of the longer debate (in the Teseide) when they meet in the grove.]  [V. 43.] 
                                
                                  ffor to be false or for to be traitour
                                
                                  To me þat am þi cosin and þi broþere
                                
                                  .I.-sworne ful depe and iche of vs to oþere
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                                  þat neuer for to diȝen in þe peyne
                                
                                  Til deþe haþe departe vs tweyne
                                
                                  Neyþer in loue to hinder oþer [folio 15b] 
                                
                                  Ne in none oþere case my leue broþer
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                                  Bot þat þou scholdest trewly forþer more
                                
                                  In euery case and .I. schal forþer þe þore
                                
                                  This was þine oþe and myne certeine
                                
                                  .I. wote riht wele þou darste it nouht wiþ-seine
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                                  Thus art þou of my counsel owte of dowte

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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 33
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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