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

                                
                                  They fouhten al daie and ȝit þeire parte was none
                                
                                  There come a kite whil þat þei were so wroþe
                                
                                  That bare awaie þe bone be-twex hem boþe
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                                  Ac þere-fore att þe kinges courte my broþer
                                
                                  Eche mon for him self þere is none oþer
                                
                                  Loue if þou list for .I. loue and ay schall
                                
                                  And soþeli leue broþer þis is all
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                                  Here in þis prison most we endure
                                
                                  And eueryche of vs tak his aventure
                                
                                  ¶ Grete was þe strif and longe be-twex hem tweie
                                
                                  If þat .I. had leiser for to seie
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                                  Bot to þis effecte it happened on a daye
                                
                                  To tellen it ȝow as schortly as .I. maye
                                
                                  A worthi Duc þat hiht. Perotheus [III. 47.] 
                                
                                  That felowe was vn-to Duc Theseus
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                                  Sen þilke daie þat þei weren childern lite
                                
                                  Was commen to Athenes his felawe to visite
                                
                                  And for to pleie as he was wont to do
                                
                                  ffor in þis werlde he louede no man so
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                                  And he loue him also as tendrely a-ȝeine
                                
                                  So wele þey loued as olde bokes seine
                                
                                  That whanne þat one was dede sothely to tell
                                
                                  His felaw went and sowht him downe in hell
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                                  Bot of þat stori leste me nouht to write
                                
                                  Duc Perotheus louede wel Arcite [III. 51-4] 
                                
                                  And him knowe att Thebes ȝere be ȝere
                                
                                  And ffinally . att request . and prayere
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                                  Of Perotheus wiþ-owten any Raunson.
                                
                                  Duc Theseus him lete owte of prison
                                
                                  ffrely to gone where þat him list ouer all
                                
                                  In suche a gise as .I. ȝowe telle schall
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                                  This was þe forward pleinly to endite
                                
                                  Be-twex Theseus and him Arcite
                                
                                  That if so were þat Arcite was fownde
                                
                                  Euere in his lif be daie or nyht or stownde
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                                  In any Contre of þis Theseus

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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 35
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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