The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  To speken of a seruaunt / proprely
                                
                                  with circumstaunceȝ / all trewely
                                  Line 2788 
                                
                                  That is to seyn / trewþe / honour / knyȝthede
                                
                                  Wysdom humblesse / estate / and heigh kynrede
                                
                                  ffreedom / and al that longeth / to that art [folio 35b] 
                                
                                  So Iubiter haue / of my soule part
                                  Line 2792 
                                
                                  As in this world right now / ne knowe I non
                                
                                  So worthy to ben loued / as Palamon
                                
                                  That serueth ȝow / and wel don al his lyf
                                
                                  And if þat euere / ȝe schuln ben a wyf
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                                  fforȝete nat Palamon / the gentil man
                                
                                  ¶ . And with that word / his speche faile began
                                
                                  ffor fro his fete / vp to his brest was come
                                
                                  The colde of deth / that had him ouercome
                                  Line 2800 
                                
                                  And ȝet more-ouer / for in his armes two
                                
                                  The vitayll strengthe / is lost and al a-go
                                
                                  Oonly the intellect / with-outen more
                                
                                  That dwelleth / in his hert / seke and sore
                                  Line 2804 
                                
                                  Gan faylen / whan the hert feleth deth
                                
                                  Dusked ys hise eyen two / and faileth breth
                                
                                  But on his lady / ȝet cast he his eye
                                
                                  His last word / was mercy Emelye
                                  Line 2808 
                                
                                  his spirit chaunged hens / & went there
                                
                                  As I cam neuere / I kan nat tellen where
                                
                                  Therfore I stynt / I am no diuinistre
                                
                                  Of soules fynde I nouȝt / in this registre
                                  Line 2812 
                                
                                  Ne me ne list / thilke opinions to telle
                                
                                  Of hem / though þat þei wryten / where they dwelle
                                
                                  Arcite is cold / there Mars his soule gye
                                
                                  Now wol I speken forth / of Emelye
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                                  ¶ . Shryghte / Emelye / and howleth Palamon
                                
                                  And Theseus his Suster / tok a-non
                                
                                  Swoughnyng / & bar hire / fro the corps a-way
                                
                                  What helpeth it / to tarien forth the day
                                  Line 2820 
                                
                                  To tellen how she wepte / both eue and morwe
                                
                                  ffor in swich cas / wommen han swich sorwe

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 80
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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