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

                                
                                  Wiþ oþere rihtes moo and at þe laste
                                
                                  The Statue of Marcȝ began his hauberk ringe [VII. 40.] 
                                
                                  And wiþ þe sounde he herde a memorynge
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                                  fful lowe and dimme þat seide þus victorie
                                
                                  ffor whiche he ȝafe to mars honour and glorie
                                
                                  And þus wiþ Ioy and hope wele to fare [VII. 41.] 
                                
                                  Arcite a-none vn to his Inne he is fare
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                                  As feine as fowle is of þe briht sonne
                                
                                  And riht anone ffrissche strife is be-gunne [VII. 67.] 
                                
                                  ffor þilke grauntynge in þe heuen a-boue
                                
                                  Be-twix venus þe goddes of loue
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                                  And marce þe steren god Armipotentent
                                
                                  That Iubiter was besie it to stent
                                
                                  Til þat þe pale Saturnus þe colde
                                
                                  þat knewe so mony of aventures olde
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                                  ffond in his olde experiens an arte [folio 31a] 
                                
                                  That ful sone haþe pleside euery parte
                                
                                  A soþe is seide Elde haþ grete auantage
                                
                                  In Elde is boþe wisdome and vsage
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                                  Men Maie þe olde att-renne and nouht atrede
                                
                                  Saturne a-none to stint strif and drede
                                
                                  Al be it þat it is aȝeines his kinde
                                
                                  Of Al þis st[r]if he gan remedi finde
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                                  Mi dere Douhter venus quod Saturne
                                
                                  Mi course þat haþe so wide for to turne
                                
                                  Haþ more powere þan haþ any manne
                                
                                  Mine is þe drynchinge in þe see so wanne
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                                  Mine is þe prisone in þe derke cote
                                
                                  Mine is þe strangle and hongeinge by þe þrote
                                
                                  The murmure and þe cheles rebellinge
                                
                                  The groneynge and þe priue enprisoneinge
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                                  .I. do vengeance and pleine correctione
                                
                                  Wil .I. dwelle in þe signe of þe leone
                                
                                  Myne is þe ruyne of þe hihe halles
                                
                                  The fallynge of þe toures and of þe walles
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                                  Vpon þe minor and þe Carpenter

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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 70
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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