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

                                
                                  Now vp now doun as boket in a welle
                                
                                  Right as þe friday soþly for to telle /
                                
                                  Now it schyneþ now it reyneþ faste
                                
                                  Right so gan gery venus ouercaste
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                                  The hertes of hire folk right as hir day
                                
                                  Is grisful right so chaungeþ hire aray
                                
                                  Selde is þe fryday al þe wyke I-like
                                
                                  whan þat arcite hadde songe he gan to sike
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                                  And sette him doun wiþouten eny more
                                
                                  Alas quod he þat day þat I was bore
                                
                                  how longe Iuno thurgh þy cruelte
                                
                                  wiltow werreyen Thebes þe Citee
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                                  Allas I-brought is to confusioun
                                
                                  The blood royal of Cadme and Amphioun
                                
                                  Of Cadynus / þe which was þe furst man
                                
                                  That Thebes bulde or first þe toun bygan
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                                  And of þat Cite first was crowned kyng
                                
                                  Of his lynage / am I and his ofspring
                                
                                  By verray line and of his stok ryal
                                
                                  And now I am so caytyf and so þral
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                                  That he þat is my mortal enemy
                                
                                  I serue him as his squyer pourely
                                
                                  And ȝet doth Iuno me wel more schame
                                
                                  For I dar nought byknowe myn owne name
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                                  But þer as I was wont to hote arcite [folio 21b] 
                                
                                  Now hoote I Philostrate nouȝt worth a myte
                                
                                  Allas þou felle mars allas Iuno
                                
                                  Thus haþ ȝoure Ire owre lynage fordo
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                                  Saue oonly me and wrecchid Palomoun
                                
                                  That Theseus martyreþ in prisoun
                                
                                  And ouer al this to slee me vtterly
                                
                                  Loue haþ his fyry dart so brennyngly
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                                  I stykid þorugh my trewe careful herte
                                
                                  That schapen was my deth erst þan my scherte
                                
                                  Ȝe slen me with ȝoure eyhen Emelye
                                
                                  Ȝe ben þe cause wherfore þat I dye

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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 45
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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