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

                                
                                  The god of loue a benedicite [folio 24b] 
                                
                                  how mighty and how gret a lord is he
                                
                                  Agayns his might þer gayneth non obstacle
                                
                                  He may be cleped a god of his miracle
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                                  For he can maken at his owen gyse
                                
                                  Of euery herte / as him lust deuyse
                                
                                  Lo her is arcite and Palomon
                                
                                  That quytely / were out of my prisoun
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                                  And might haue lyued in Thebes ryally
                                
                                  And witen I am here mortal enemy
                                
                                  And þat here deþ lith in my might also
                                
                                  And ȝet haþ loue maugre here eyȝen tuo
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                                  I-brought hem hider boþe for to dye
                                
                                  Now lokeþ is nat þat an heih folye
                                
                                  who may be a fole if þat he loue
                                
                                  Byholde for goddes þaþ sitteþ aboue
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                                  Se how þey blede be þey nought wel arrayed
                                
                                  Thus haþ here lord þe god of loue hem payed
                                
                                  here wages and here fees for here seruise
                                
                                  And ȝet wenen they to ben wise /
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                                  That seruen loue for ought þat may bifalle
                                
                                  But þis is ȝette / þe beste game of alle
                                
                                  That sche for whom þey haue þis Ielousye
                                
                                  ¶ Can hem þerfore as moche þank as me
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                                  Sche woot no more of al þis hoote fare
                                
                                  By god þan wot a Cuckow or an hare
                                
                                  But al moot ben assayed hoot or colde
                                
                                  A man moot ben a fool oþer ȝong or olde
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                                  I woot it by my self ful ȝore a-gon
                                
                                  For in my tyme a seruant was I on
                                
                                  And sythen þat I knewe of loues peyne
                                
                                  And wot how sore it can a man destreyne
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                                  As he þat haþ often ben caught in his lace
                                
                                  I ȝou forȝeue holly þis trespace
                                
                                  At þe request of þe queen þat kneleþ heere
                                
                                  And eek of Emely my suster deere

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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 52
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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