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

                                
                                  And wiþ þat worde þe Arwes in þe caas
                                
                                  Of þe goddes claterne fast and ringe [VII. 90.] 
                                
                                  And forþe sche wente and made a vanyssinge
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                                  ffor whiche þi[ng] emely astoned was [folio 30a] 
                                
                                  And seide what a-mounteþ þis alas
                                
                                  .I. pute me in þi protectione
                                
                                  Diane and in þine dispocicion
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                                  And home sche goþe a-none þe next weye [VII. 93.] 
                                
                                  Þis is þeffecte þere is nomore to seie
                                
                                  ¶ The next houre of Mars folwynge þis
                                
                                  Arcite vnto þe temple walke is
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                                  Of fires Mars to don his sacrifice
                                
                                  Wiþ all þe rihtes of his payen wise
                                
                                  Wiþe pitous hert and hihe deuocione [VII. 23.] 
                                
                                  Riht þus to mars he sent his orison
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                                  ¶ O stronge good þat in þe regne colde [VII. 24.] 
                                
                                  Of Trace honoured erte and lorde .I.-holde
                                
                                  And hast in euery regne and in euery londe
                                
                                  Of armes al þe bridel in þin honde
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                                  And hem fortunest as þe liste deuyse
                                
                                  Accepte of me my pitous sacrifise
                                
                                  If so be þat my ȝouþe mai deserue [VII. 25.] 
                                
                                  And þat .I. myht be worþi for to serue
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                                  Thi godhede þat .I. maie bene one of þine
                                
                                  Þat praie .I. to þe to rewe vpon my pine
                                
                                  ffor þilke pine and þilke hote fire
                                
                                  In whiche þou whilome berneste for desire
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                                  Whan þat þou vsedest þi beaute [VII. 25.] 
                                
                                  Of faire ȝonge fressche venus fre
                                
                                  And haddest hir in armes att þi will
                                
                                  Al-þouhe ȝe ones on a time mysfell
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                                  Whane vulcanus hadde cauht þe in his laas [VII. 25.] 
                                
                                  And fonde þe liggynge be his wif alaas
                                
                                  ffor þilke sorwe þat was in þin herte
                                
                                  Haue reuþe as wele vpon my peines smerte
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                                  .I. am ȝonge and vnkunynge as þou woste [VII. 26.]

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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 68
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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