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

                                
                                  And war cauht it was accorded þus
                                
                                  That wiþe a swerde he scholde lese his hede [III. 54.] 
                                
                                  Ther nas none oþere remedye ne rede
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                                  Bot takeþe his leue and homwarde he him spedde
                                
                                  Lat him be war his nek liþe to wedde
                                
                                  How grete a sorwe suffurþe nowe arcite [folio 16b] 
                                
                                  The deþe he feleþ þoruhe his hert smite
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                                  He wepeþe he weyleþ and crieþ pitously
                                
                                  To slene him self he waiteþ priuely
                                
                                  He seide alas þat .I. was borne [[Gen. resembl. See III. 75, &c.]] 
                                
                                  Nowe is my prison werse þan be-forne
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                                  Nowe is me schape eternalie to dwelle
                                
                                  Nouht in purgatorie Bot in helle
                                
                                  Alas þat euer .I. knewe Perotheus
                                
                                  ffor elles had .I. dwelled wiþ Theseus
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                                  Ifetterd in his prison euer mo
                                
                                  Than had .I. bene in blisse and nowht in woo
                                
                                  Onely þe siht of hire whome þat .I. serue
                                
                                  Thouhe þat .I. neuere hir grace miht deserue
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                                  Wholde haue ysuffised riht .I.-nowhe for me
                                
                                  ¶ O dere Cosine Palamon quod he
                                
                                  Thine is þe victorie of þis auenture
                                
                                  fful blisfully in prisōn mayght þou dure
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                                  In prison sertes naye bot Paradise
                                
                                  Wele haþ fortune turned þe dise
                                
                                  That haþe þe siht of hire and .I. þe absence
                                
                                  ffor possible is seþþe þou hast hir presence
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                                  And art a kny[ght] a worþi and an able
                                
                                  That be som caas fortune is chaungeable
                                
                                  Thou maiste to þi desire somtime ateigne
                                
                                  Bot .I. þat am exiled and bareigne
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                                  Of al grace and in so grete dispeire
                                
                                  That þer nys erþe water fire ne ayre
                                
                                  Ne creature þat of hem Maked is
                                
                                  That may me helpe ne do me comford in þis
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                                  Wele owht .I. sterue In wanhope and distris

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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 36
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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