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

                                
                                  And now thou woldest falsly ben aboute
                                
                                  To loue my lady whom I loue and serue
                                
                                  And euere schal vnto myn herte sterue
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                                  Now certes fals arcite þou schal not so
                                
                                  I loued hir first / and tolde the my woo
                                
                                  As to my counseil / and to broþer sworn
                                
                                  To forthere me as I haue told biforn
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                                  For which thou art I-bounden as a knight
                                
                                  To helpe me/ if it lay in þi might/
                                
                                  Or elles art þou fals I dar wel sayn
                                
                                  This Arcite ful proudly spak agayn
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                                  Thou schalt quoþ he be rather fals þan I
                                
                                  But þou art fals / I telle þe vttirly
                                
                                  For paramour I loued hir first þen þow
                                
                                  what wolt þou sayn thou wost it not ȝit now
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                                  wheþer sche be a womman or goddesse
                                
                                  Thyn is affeccioun of holynesse
                                
                                  And myn is loue as of a creature
                                
                                  For which I tolde þe myn aduenture
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                                  As to my cosyn / and my broþer sworn
                                
                                  I pose þat þou louedest hire biforn
                                
                                  wost þou nat wel the olde clerkes saw
                                
                                  That who schal ȝeue a louer eny lawe
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                                  loue is a grettere lawe by my pan
                                
                                  Then may be ȝeue / to eny erþly man
                                
                                  Therfore posityf lawe and such decre
                                
                                  Is broke alway for love in ech degree
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                                  A man moot needes loue maugre his heed
                                
                                  he may nought fle it þough he schulde be deed
                                
                                  Al be sche mayde or be sche widewe or wyf
                                
                                  And þat is nat likly al þy lyf
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                                  To stonden in hire grace no more schal I
                                
                                  For wel þou wost þy seluen verrily
                                
                                  That þou and I been dampned to prisoun
                                
                                  Perpetuelly vs gayneth no Raunsoun
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                                  We stryue as doth the houndes for the boon [folio 16b]

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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 34
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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