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

                                
                                  Whiche þat þou seist .I. haue maade to þe
                                
                                  Whatt verreie foole þinke wele þat loue is fre [V. 51.] 
                                
                                  And .I. wil loue hir Maugre al þi myht
                                
                                  Bot for al so muche as þou ert a worþi knyht
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                                  And wilneste to darreine hir be Bataile
                                
                                  Haue here my trowþe to morne wil .I. nouht faile
                                
                                  Wiþouten weteinge of any oþere wight
                                
                                  That here .I. wil be founden as a knyht
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                                  And bringen herneys riht. ynowhe for þe
                                
                                  And chese þe beste and leue þe werst for me
                                
                                  And mete and drinke þis nyht wil .I. bringe
                                
                                  .Y.-nowghe for þe and cloþes for þi bedynge
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                                  And. if so be þat þou my lady wynne
                                
                                  And sle me in þis wode þare .I. am inne
                                
                                  Þou maiste wele haue my lady as for me
                                
                                  This Palamon ansewerd .I. graunt it þe
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                                  And þus þei bene departid til on morwe
                                
                                  Whan iche of hem had leide his feiþe to borwe
                                
                                  Occupiede owte of al charite
                                
                                  ¶ O regne þat wolde no felawe haue wiþ þe
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                                  fful soþe is seide þat loue ne lordeschipe [V. 13.] 
                                
                                  Wil not his þonkes haue no felauschipe
                                
                                  We finde þat of arcite and of Palamone
                                
                                  Arcite is Reden anone in to þe toune
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                                  And on þe morwe ar it were daies liht
                                
                                  fful priuely tuo herneys haþe he diht
                                
                                  Boþe suffisant and mete to darreine
                                
                                  The Bataile in þe felde be-tuex hem tweyne
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                                  And on his hors alone as he was borne
                                
                                  He carieþ al his herneyce him be-forne
                                
                                  And in þe groue att þe time and place y-sette
                                
                                  Þis Arcite and Palamon ben mette
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                                  To chaungen gan þe coloure in her face
                                
                                  Riht as þe hunters in þe Reigne of Trace [VII. 106.] 
                                
                                  Þat stondeþ att a gappe wiþ a spere
                                
                                  Whan huntide is þe lyon or þe bere

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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 47
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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