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

                                
                                  And Arcita þat in þe courte roial
                                
                                  Wiþ Theseus his swier principal
                                
                                  Is resen and lokeþ on þe mery daie
                                
                                  And for to done his obseruance to maie
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                                  Remembringe on þe pointe of his desire
                                
                                  He on his coursere stertynge as fire
                                
                                  Is reden to þe feldes him to pleie
                                
                                  Owte of þe Court were it a meyle or tweye
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                                  And to þe groue of whiche as [I] ȝow tolde
                                
                                  Be aventur his weie he gan to holde
                                
                                  To Maken him a garlonde of þe greues [IV. 62.] 
                                
                                  Were it of wodebinde or of heiþorne leues
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                                  And loude he songe a-ȝein þe sonne schene
                                
                                  Maie wiþ al þi floures and þi grene
                                
                                  Welcom be þou feire fresche Maie
                                
                                  I. hop þat .I. sume grene get maie
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                                  And from his coursur wiþ a lusti herte
                                
                                  In to þe groue ful hastely he sterte
                                
                                  And in a paþe he romeþ vp and doune
                                
                                  Thar as be aventur of þis Palamon
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                                  Was in a busshe þat no man miht him see [folio 20a] 
                                
                                  ffor sore aferde of his deþe was he
                                
                                  No þinge knewe he þat it was Arcite
                                
                                  God wote he wolde haue trowed it ful lite
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                                  Bot soþe is seide gon siþe many ȝeres
                                
                                  That felde haþe yȝen. and wode haþe eres
                                
                                  It [is] ful faire a man to bere him euen
                                
                                  ffor aldaie meteþ men att vn-sette steuen
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                                  fful litel wote arcite of his felawe
                                
                                  Þat was so nyhe to herken of his sawe
                                
                                  ffor in þe busche he sitteþ now ful still
                                
                                  Whan þat Arcite had romede al his fill
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                                  And songen al þe roundel lustely
                                
                                  In to a stody he fel sodanly
                                
                                  As done þes louers in hir queynte geres
                                
                                  Nowe in þe crope nowe downe in þe breres

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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 44
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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