which þat þou seyst I haue maad to þe
For verray fool / þenk þat loue is fre
And I wol loue hire mawgre al þy might
But for þou art a gentil parfiȝt knight
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And wenest to dereyne hire by batayle
haue heere my trouþe to morwe I nyl not fayle
wiþouten wityng of eny oþer wight
That heer I wol be founden as a knight
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And bryngen harneys right I-nough for þe
And ches þe best and lef þe worst for me
And mete and drynke/ þis night wil I bryng
Inough for þe and cloþ for þy beddyng
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And if so be þat þou my lady wynne
And sle me in þis wood þat/ I am Inne
Thou maist wel haue þy lady as for me
This Palomon answereþ I graunt it þe
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And þus þey ben departed til a morwe
whan ech of hem had leyd his feith to borwe
OCupide / out of al charite
O regne þat wolt no felaw haue with þe
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Ful soþ is seyde / þat loue ne lordschipe
wol not his þonkes haue no felaschipe
wel fynden þat arcite and Palamoun
Arcite is riden anon to þe toun
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And on þe morwe or it were day light
Ful priuely two harneys haþ he dight
Boþe sufficaunt and mete to darreyne
The batayl in þe feeld betwix hem tweyne
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And on his hors alone as he was born [folio 22b]
he caryed al þis harneys him byforn
And in þe groue at tyme and place I-sette
This arcite and þis Palamon ben mette
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Tho chaungen gan here colour in here face
Right as þe honterus in þe regne of Trace
That stondeþ in þe gappe with a spere
whan honted is þe lyoun or þe bere
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