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

                                
                                  Of al þe remenant of al myn oþer care
                                
                                  Ne sette I nouȝt þe mountaunce of a tare
                                
                                  So þat I couþe do ought to ȝoure pleasaunce
                                
                                  And with þat word he fel doun in a traunce
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                                  A longe tyme and aftirward vpsterte
                                
                                  This Palamon þat þouȝte þurgh his herte
                                
                                  he felt a cold swerd sodeynliche glyde
                                
                                  For Ire he quook/ he nolde no lenger abyde
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                                  And whan þat he haþ herd arcites tale
                                
                                  As he were wood wiþ face deed and pale
                                
                                  he sterte him vp out of þe bussches þikke
                                
                                  And seyd arcyte / false traitour wikke/
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                                  Now art þou hent/ þat louest my lady so.
                                
                                  For whom þat I haue al þis peyne and wo.
                                
                                  And art my blood and to my counseil sworn
                                
                                  And I ful ofte haue told þe heere byforn
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                                  And hast by-Iaped here þe duke Theseus
                                
                                  And falsly chaunged hast þy name þus
                                
                                  I wol be deed or elles þou schalt dye
                                
                                  Þou schalt not loue my lady Emelye
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                                  But I wil loue hire oonly and nomo
                                
                                  For I am Palomon þy mortal fo
                                
                                  And þough þat I no wepen haue in þis place
                                
                                  But out of prisoun am y-stert by grace
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                                  I drede not þat oþer þou schalt dye
                                
                                  Or þou ne schalt not loue Emelye
                                
                                  Chese which þou wilt for þou schalt not asterte [folio 22a] 
                                
                                  This arcite with ful despitous herte
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                                  whan he him knew and had his tale herde
                                
                                  As fers as a lyoun pulleþ out a swerde
                                
                                  And seide þus by god þat sitteþ aboue
                                
                                  Nere it þat þou art sike and wood for loue
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                                  And eek þat þou no wepne has in þis place
                                
                                  But out of prisoun art y-stert by grace
                                
                                  That þou ne schuldest deyen of myn hond
                                
                                  For I defye þe seurte and þe bond

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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 46
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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