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

                                
                                  Nowe vp nowe downe as a boket in a welle
                                
                                  Riht as þe fridaie soþeli for to telle
                                
                                  Nowe it schineþe nowe it reineþ fast
                                
                                  Riht so gan geri venus ouer cast
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                                  The hertes of hir folke riht as hir daie
                                
                                  Is gerful riht so chaungeþ sche arraie
                                
                                  Seld is þe fridaie al þe weke ylike
                                
                                  ¶ Whan þat Arcite had songe he gan to sike
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                                  And set him doune wiþ-owten any more
                                
                                  Alas quod he þat daie þat .I. was bore
                                
                                  Howe longe Iuno þoruhe þi crueltee
                                
                                  Wiltow werien Thebes þe Citee
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                                  Alas brouht it is to confusione [See IV. 13, 14.] 
                                
                                  The blode Roial of Cadine and Amphione
                                
                                  Of Cadinus whiche þat was þe first man
                                
                                  That Thebes bulet or first þe toune be-gan
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                                  And of þe Cite first was Crouned kinge
                                
                                  Of his linage am .I. and of his ospringe
                                
                                  Be verrei. ligne as of þe stok Roialle. [See IV. 31.] 
                                
                                  And Now .I. am so caitif and so þralle.
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                                  That he þat is my mortal ennemye [See IV. 85.] 
                                
                                  .I. serue him as his swier pouerelye
                                
                                  And ȝit doþe me Iuno wel more schame
                                
                                  ffor .I. dar .I. not be-knowe myne owne name
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                                  Bot þere as .I. was wonte hiht Arcite [See IV. 84.] 
                                
                                  Now .hiht. Philostrate not worþe a myte [[Penteo, IV. 84.]] 
                                
                                  Allas þou fel mars Allas þou Iuno. [See IV. 17.] 
                                
                                  Thus haþe ȝower ire owre lignage al for-do.
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                                  Saue only me and wreched palamon [folio 20b] 
                                
                                  That Theseus Martireþ in prison
                                
                                  And ouer al þis to slene me vtterly [IV. 82.] 
                                
                                  Loue haþ faire his darte so brinyngly
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                                  Istiked þoruhe my trewe careful herte
                                
                                  That schapen was my deþ arst þan my scherte
                                
                                  Ȝe slene me wiþe ȝowere yhen Emelye
                                
                                  The be þe cause were-for þat .I. die

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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 45
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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