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

                                
                                  They foughte alday and ȝit here part was noon
                                
                                  Ther com a kyte whil þat þey were wroþe
                                
                                  That bar awey the boon bitwixe hem boþe
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                                  And þerfore at the kynges court my broþer
                                
                                  Eche man for himself þer is non other
                                
                                  Loue if the list for I loue and ay schal
                                
                                  And sothly leeue brother þis is al
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                                  Eke in þis prisoun moote we endure
                                
                                  And euery of vs take his auenture
                                
                                  Gret was the stryf and long bytwixe hem tweye
                                
                                  Ȝif þat I hadde leysir for to seye
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                                  But to the effect it happed on a day
                                
                                  To telle it ȝow as schortly as I may
                                
                                  A worþy Duk þat highte Perotheus
                                
                                  That felaw was to þe duk Theseus
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                                  Syn þilke day þat þey were children lyte
                                
                                  Was come to Athenes his felawe to visite
                                
                                  And for to pley as he was wont to do
                                
                                  For in þis world he loued noman so
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                                  And he loued him as tendurly agayn
                                
                                  So wel þey loued as olde bookes sayn
                                
                                  That whan oon / was deed soþly to telle
                                
                                  his felawe wente and sought him doun in helle
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                                  But of þat story lyst me nought to write
                                
                                  Duk Perotheus loued wel Arcite/
                                
                                  And hadde him knowe at Thebes ȝeer by ȝeer
                                
                                  And fynally at requeste and prayer
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                                  Of Perotheus withoute any raunsoun
                                
                                  Duk Theseus him leet out of prisoun
                                
                                  Frely to go wher him lust ouer al
                                
                                  In such a gyse as I ȝou telle schal
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                                  This was the forward playnly to endite
                                
                                  Bitwixe Theseus and him Arcite
                                
                                  That if so were þat Arcite were founde
                                
                                  Euere in his lyf by daye night or stounde
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                                  In eny contre of þis Theseus

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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 35
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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