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

                                
                                  There-fore .I. passe al so lihtly as .I. maye
                                
                                  ¶ It fel þat in þe seuent ȝere of maie
                                
                                  The þridde nyhte as holde bokes seine
                                
                                  That all þis story telleþ more pleine
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                                  Were it be aventure or destanye
                                
                                  As whan a þinge is schape it schal bye
                                
                                  Þat sone after þe mydenyht Palamon [V. 25-7.] 
                                
                                  Be helpinge of a frende brake prison
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                                  And fleeth þe Cite fast as he mai goo
                                
                                  ffor he had gif his Gailer drinke soo [V. 24.] 
                                
                                  Of a clarre maade of a certein wyne
                                
                                  Wiþ nercotiks and opie of Thebes fyne
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                                  That al þat nyht þouhe þat men wold him schake
                                
                                  The Gaillere slepe he myht nouht awake.
                                
                                  And þus he flieþ as fast as euere he maie [folio 19b] 
                                
                                  The nyht was schort and fast be þe daie
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                                  That nedes coste he most him self hiden
                                
                                  And til a groue faste fast þere be-siden [V. 33.] 
                                
                                  Wiþ dredful fote þan stalkeþ Palamon
                                
                                  ffor schort þis was his opinion
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                                  That in þat groue he wolde him hide aldaie
                                
                                  And in þe nyht þan wolde he take his waie
                                
                                  To Thebes-warde his frendes for to praye
                                
                                  On Theseus to helpe him to werreie
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                                  Or schortly he wolde lese his lif
                                
                                  Ore wynnen Emely to his louely wif
                                
                                  This is þefecte and his entente pleine
                                
                                  ¶ Now whiles turne we to Arcite aȝeine
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                                  That litel wiste how nihe þat was his care
                                
                                  Til þat fortone hadde cauht him in his snare
                                
                                  The besi larke messagiere of daie
                                
                                  Salueþ in hir songe þe morwe greie
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                                  And firy phebus riseþ vp so bright
                                
                                  Þat al þe orient lawheþ of þe sight
                                
                                  And wiþ his streme drieþ in þe greues
                                
                                  The siluer dropes hangeinge on þe leues

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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 43
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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