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

                                
                                  Arrayed was þis god as he took/ keepe
                                
                                  As he was whan þat Argous took his sleep
                                
                                  And seyde to athenes schalt þou wende
                                
                                  Ther is þe schapen of þy wo an ende
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                                  And with þat word arcite wook and sterte
                                
                                  Now trewely how sore þat me smerte
                                
                                  Quod he to athenes riȝt now wol I fare
                                
                                  Ne for þe drede of deth schal I not spare
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                                  To see my lady þat I loue and serue
                                
                                  In hire presence I recche nat to sterue /
                                
                                  And with þat word he caught a gret myrour
                                
                                  And saugh þat chaunged was al his colour
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                                  And saugh his visage was in anoþer kynge
                                
                                  And right anoon it ran him into mynde
                                
                                  That seþþen his face was so disfigured
                                
                                  Of maladie the which he haþ endured
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                                  he mighte wel if þat he bar him lowe [folio 19b] 
                                
                                  lyue in athenes eueremore vnknowe
                                
                                  And see his lady wel neih day by day
                                
                                  And right anon he chaunged his aray
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                                  And cloþed him as a pore laborer
                                
                                  And al alone saue oonly a squyer
                                
                                  That knew his pryuyte and al his cas
                                
                                  which was disgysed pourely as he was
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                                  To athenes is he go þe nexte way
                                
                                  And to þe court / he went vpon a day
                                
                                  And at þe ȝate he profred his seruyse
                                
                                  To drugge and drawe what so men wolde deuyse
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                                  And schortly on þis matier for to seyn
                                
                                  he fel in office with a Chambirleyn
                                
                                  The which that dwellyng was with Emelye
                                
                                  For he was wys and couthe sone aspye
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                                  Of euery seruaunt which þat serued here
                                
                                  wel couþe he hewe woode and water bere /
                                
                                  For he was ȝonge and mighty for þe nones
                                
                                  And þerto he was long and bygge of bones

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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 41
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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