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

                                
                                  As it were in a litel list roiallie
                                
                                  ¶ This Palamon ansewerd hastelye
                                
                                  And seide sire what nedeþ wordes mo
                                
                                  We haue þe deþ deserued boþe tuo
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                                  Two wofull wreches be we tuo Caytyues
                                
                                  That bene encumberde of owre owen liues
                                
                                  And as þou art a riht-ful lorde and Iuge
                                
                                  Ne ȝif vs neyþer mercy ne refuge
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                                  Bot sle me first for seinte Charite
                                
                                  And sle my felaw eke as wele as me
                                
                                  Or sle him for þouhe thou knowest it lite
                                
                                  Þis is þi mortal fo þis is Arcite
                                  Line 1724 
                                
                                  That fro þi londe is banysshed on his hed [See V. 91.] 
                                
                                  ffor whiche he haþe deserued to be dede
                                
                                  ffor þis is he whiche come vn to þi gate
                                
                                  And seide þat he hiht Philostrate.
                                  Line 1728 
                                
                                  Thus haþe he Iaped þe ful mony a ȝere [folio 22b] 
                                
                                  And þou hast maade him þi chef swyere
                                
                                  And þis is he þat loueþ Emelye
                                
                                  ffor seþ þat daie is come þat .I. schal diȝe
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                                  .I. make pleinely my confessione
                                
                                  Þat .I. am þilke woful palamone
                                
                                  Þat haþe þi prisone broken wikkedly. [See V. 91.] 
                                
                                  .I. am þi mortale foo and it am .I.
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                                  Þat loueþe so hote Emelye þe brihte
                                
                                  That wil diȝe present in hire sihte
                                
                                  Where-fore .I. ax deþe and my Iuyse [V. 90.] 
                                
                                  Bot sle my felawe in þe same wise
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                                  ffor boþe we haue deserued to be sleine
                                
                                  ¶ This worþi Duc ansewerd anone aȝeine
                                
                                  And seide this is a schort conclusione
                                
                                  Ȝowre owren mouþe be ȝowre confessione
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                                  Haþe dampne ȝow and it wil recorde
                                
                                  It nedeþ nouht to pyne ȝowe wiþ corde
                                
                                  Ȝe schal be ded be myhti Mars þe rede
                                
                                  The qweene anone for verrei wommanhede

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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 50
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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