The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  This sorweful prisoner þis Palamon
                                
                                  Gooth in þe chambre romyng to and fro
                                
                                  And to himself compleynyng of his woo
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                                  That he was born / ful ofte he seyd alas
                                
                                  And so byfel by auenture or cas
                                
                                  That þurgh a wyndow þikke and many a barre
                                
                                  Of Iren greet and squar as eny sparre
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                                  he cast his eyen vpon Emelya
                                
                                  And þer with al he bleynte and cryed .A.
                                
                                  As þat he stongen were vnto þe herte
                                
                                  And with þat crye arcite anon vp sterte
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                                  And seyde cosyn myn what eyleþ þe
                                
                                  That art so pale and deedly for to see /
                                
                                  why crydestow who haþ þe doon offence
                                
                                  For goddes loue tak al in pacience
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                                  Oure prisoun for it may non oþir be
                                
                                  Fortune haþ ȝeuen vs þis aduersite
                                
                                  Som wikke aspect / or disposicioun
                                
                                  Of Saturne by sum constellacioun
                                  Line 1088 
                                
                                  Hath ȝeuen vs þis alþough we hadde it sworn
                                
                                  So stood þe heuen whan þat we were born
                                
                                  we moste endure it þis is þe schort and pleyn
                                
                                  This Palamon answered and seyde ageyn
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                                  Cosyn for sothe of þis opynyoun
                                
                                  Thou hast a veyn ymaginacioun
                                
                                  This prisoun caused me not for to crye
                                
                                  But I was hurt right now þurgh myn yhe
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                                  Into myn herte þat wol my bane be
                                
                                  The fairnesse of þe lady þat I see
                                
                                  Ȝonde in þe gardyn rome to and fro
                                
                                  Is cause of my cryyng and my wo
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                                  I not wheþur sche be womman or goddesse / [folio 15b] 
                                
                                  But Venus is it/ sothly as I gesse
                                
                                  And þer with al on knees a doun he fil
                                
                                  And seyde venus if it be ȝoure wil
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                                  Ȝow in þis gardyn þus to transfigure

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 32
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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