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

                                
                                  Arraide was þis god as as he toke kepe
                                
                                  As he was whan þat Argus toke his slepe
                                
                                  And seide him þus to Athenes þow schalt wende [folio 18b] 
                                
                                  Where is þe schapen of þi woo an ende
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                                  ¶ And wiþ þat worde Arcite woke and sterte
                                
                                  Now trewli how sore þat me smerte
                                
                                  Quod he to Athenes riht nowe wil .I. fare
                                
                                  Ne for þe drede of deþe schal .I. nouht spare
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                                  To se my lady þat .I. loue and serue
                                
                                  In hire presence .I. reche not to sterue
                                
                                  And wiþ þat worde he cauht a grete Mirroure
                                
                                  And sauhe þat chaunged was al his coloure
                                  Line 1400 
                                
                                  And sauhe his vesage al in anoþer kinde
                                
                                  And riht anone it ran him in his mynde [IV. 38.] 
                                
                                  That seþ his face was so disfigurede
                                
                                  Of þe Maledy whiche he had endurede
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                                  He myht wele if þat he bare him lowe
                                
                                  Leue in Athenes euer more vnknowe
                                
                                  An seen his lady wel ny day be daye
                                
                                  And riht anone he chaunged his Araye
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                                  And clad him as poure laborere [pover valletto, IV. 22.] 
                                
                                  An al alone saue onely o swiere [umil garzone, IV. 22.] 
                                
                                  That knewe his priuete and al his case [povero valletto IV. 40.] 
                                
                                  Whiche was disgised pouerly as he was
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                                  To Athenes is gone þe next waye
                                
                                  And to þe courte he went vpon a daye
                                
                                  And att þe gate he proferd his seruyse
                                
                                  To drugge and drawe what so men wil deuise
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                                  And schortly of þis mater for to seine
                                
                                  He fel in office wiþ a chamburleine
                                
                                  The whiche þat was dwellinge wiþ Emelye
                                
                                  ffor he was wise and sone couþe aspye
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                                  ffor euery seruant whiche þat serueþ here
                                
                                  Wele couþe he hewen wode and water bere
                                
                                  ffor he was ȝonge and myhti for þe nones
                                
                                  And þer-to he was stronge and briht of bones

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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 41
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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