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

                                
                                  And Nowe þou woldest falsely bene abowte
                                
                                  To loue my ladi whome .I. loue and serue
                                
                                  And euer schal til þat myne hert sterue
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                                  Nowe certes false Arcite þou schalte not so
                                
                                  I loued hir first and tolde þe my woo
                                
                                  As to my Cosin and my broþer sworne
                                
                                  To ferþer me as .I. haue tolde to forne
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                                  ffor whiche þou art bownden as a knyht
                                
                                  To helpe if it laie in þi myht
                                
                                  Or elles ert þou fals .I. dare wele seine
                                
                                  ¶ This Arcite ful prowdeli spake aȝeine
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                                  Thowe schalt quod he [be] raþer false þan .I.
                                
                                  Bot þowe ert false .I. tel þe witerly.
                                
                                  ffor paramoure .I. loued here first ar þoue
                                
                                  What wiltow seine þow wist it not ȝit nowe
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                                  Wheþer sche be a womman or a goddesse
                                
                                  Thine es affecione of holynesse
                                
                                  And myne is loue as to a creatur
                                
                                  ffor whiche .I. tolde þe myn aventur
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                                  As to my cosine and to my broþere sworne
                                
                                  ¶ .I. pose þat þou louest had . hir to forne
                                
                                  Wost þowe nouht wele þe olde clerkes sawe
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                                  That who schal ȝeue a louer any lawe. [Quis legem dat amantibus] 
                                
                                  Loue is a gretter lawe be my panne
                                
                                  Than maie be ȝeue to ani erþeli manne
                                
                                  And þere positif lawe and swyche decree
                                
                                  Is broke al daie for loue in yche degree
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                                  A man most nedes loue maugrif his hede [[See V. 51.]] 
                                
                                  He maie not fliȝen it þouhe he scholde be dede
                                
                                  Al be sche maide or wydow or elles wif
                                
                                  And eke it is nouht likely al þi lif [[See V. 45, 49.]] 
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                                  To stonde in hir grace na more schal .I.
                                
                                  ffor wele þou wost þi self verrely
                                
                                  That þou and .I. bene dampne to prison
                                
                                  Perpetuely . vs geyneþ no Raunson
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                                  We striuen as houndes for þe bone [folio 16a]

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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 34
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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