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

                                
                                  with oþir rightes and þan atte last
                                
                                  The statu of mars bigan his hauberk ryng
                                
                                  And with þat soun / he herd a murmuryng
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                                  Ful lowe and dym / and sayde þis victorie
                                
                                  For which he ȝaf to mars honour and glorie
                                
                                  And þus with ioye and hope wel to fare
                                
                                  Arcite anoon / vnto his Inne is fare /
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                                  As fayn as foul is of þe brighte sonne [folio 33a] 
                                
                                  And right anon such stryf is bygonne
                                
                                  For þat grauntyng in þe heuen aboue
                                
                                  Bitwix venus and þe goddes of loue
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                                  And marcz þe sterne god armypotent
                                
                                  That Iupiter was busy it to stent
                                
                                  Til þat þe pale Saturnes þe colde
                                
                                  That knew so many of auentures olde
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                                  Fond in his experiens an art/
                                
                                  That he ful sone haþ plesyd euery part
                                
                                  And soþ is sayd eelde haþ gret auantage
                                
                                  In eelde is boþe wisdom and vsage
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                                  Men may þe eelde at-ren but nat at-rede
                                
                                  Saturne anon to stynte stryf and drede
                                
                                  Al be it þat / it be agayns his kynde
                                
                                  Of al þis stryf he can remedy fynde
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                                  My deere douȝter venus quod Satourne
                                
                                  My cours þat haþ so wyde for to tourne
                                
                                  haþ more power þan woot eny man
                                
                                  Myn is þe drenchyng in þe see so wan
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                                  Myn is þe prisoun in þe derke cote
                                
                                  Myn is þe stranglyng & hangyng by þe þrote
                                
                                  The murmur and þe cherles rebellyng
                                
                                  The groynyng and þe pryue enpoysonyng
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                                  I do vengance and pleyn correctioun
                                
                                  whiles I dwelle in þe signe of þe lyoun
                                
                                  Myn is þe ruen of þe hihe halles
                                
                                  The fallyng of þe toures and þe walles
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                                  Vpon þe mynour or þe Carpenter

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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 70
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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