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

                                
                                  And in þe Rescous of þis Palomon
                                
                                  The stronge kyng · ligurgius is born a doun
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                                  The kyng Emetreus for al his strengþe
                                
                                  Is born out of his sadel his swerdes lengþe
                                
                                  So hit him palamon er he were take
                                
                                  But al for nought he was brought to þe stake /
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                                  his hardy herte might him helpe nouȝt
                                
                                  He most abyde whan þat he was caught
                                
                                  By force and eek by composicioun
                                
                                  who sorweþ now but Palomoun
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                                  That moot no more gon agayn to fight
                                
                                  And whan þat Theseus had seen þat sight
                                
                                  he cryed hoo / nomore for it is doon
                                
                                  Ne noon schal lenger vnto his felaw goon
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                                  I wol be trewe Iuge and nouȝt partye
                                
                                  Arcyte of Thebes schal haue Emelye
                                
                                  That haþ by his fortune hire I-wonne
                                
                                  Anoon þer is noyse bygonne
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                                  For ioye of þis so lowde and heye with alle
                                
                                  It semed þat þe listes wolde falle
                                
                                  what can now fayre Venus doon aboue
                                
                                  what seiþ sche now what doþ þis queen of loue /
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                                  But wepeþ so for wantyng of hir wille [folio 36a] 
                                
                                  Til þat hire teeres in þe lystes fille
                                
                                  Sche sayde I am aschamed douteles
                                
                                  Satournus seyde douȝter hold þy pees
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                                  Mars haþ his wille his knight haþ his boone
                                
                                  And by myn heed þou schalt be esed soone
                                
                                  The trompes wiþ þe lowde mynstralcy
                                
                                  The herawdes þat ful lowde ȝolle and cry
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                                  Been in here ioye / for daun arcyte
                                
                                  But herkneþ me and stynteþ but a lite
                                
                                  which a miracle bifel anoon
                                
                                  This arcyte fersly haþ don his helm a doun
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                                  And on his courser for to schewe his face
                                
                                  he priked endlange in þe large place

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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 76
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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