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

                                
                                  And arcite þat is in þe court ryal
                                
                                  With Theseus his Squyer principal
                                
                                  Is risen and loketh on þe mery day
                                
                                  And for to doon his obseruance to May
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                                  Remembryng of þe poynt of his desire
                                
                                  he on his courser stertyng as þe fire
                                
                                  Is riden in to feeldes him to pleye
                                
                                  Out of þe court were it a myle or tweye
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                                  And to þe groue of which þat I ȝow tolde
                                
                                  By auenture his wey he gan to holde
                                
                                  To make him a garland of þe greues
                                
                                  were it of woodewynde or hawþorn leues
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                                  And lowde he song aȝens þe sonne scheene
                                
                                  May wiþ al þyn floures and þy greene
                                
                                  welcome be þou wel faire freissche may
                                
                                  In hope þat I som grene gete may
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                                  And fro his courser wiþ a lusty herte
                                
                                  Into þe groue ful lustily he sterte
                                
                                  And in a pathe he romed vp and doun
                                
                                  Ther by auenture þis Palamoun
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                                  was in a busche þat no man might him see
                                
                                  Ful sore afered of his deþ was he
                                
                                  No þing ne knew he þat it was Arcite [folio 21a] 
                                
                                  God wot he wolde haue trowed it ful lite
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                                  But soþ is seyde goon ful many ȝeres
                                
                                  That feld haþ eyen and þe woode haþ eeres
                                
                                  It is ful fair a man to bere him euene
                                
                                  For al day men meteþ atte vnset steuene
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                                  Ful litel woot arcite of his felawe
                                
                                  That was so neih to herken of his sawe
                                
                                  For in þe busche he stynteþ now ful stille
                                
                                  whan þat arcyte had romed al his fille /
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                                  And songen al þe Roundel lustily
                                
                                  In to a studie he fel sodeynly
                                
                                  As doþ þes louers in here queynte geeres
                                
                                  Now in þe croppe / now doun in þe breres

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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 44
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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