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 ...

                                
                                  And here a-geyns / no creature on lyue
                                
                                  Of no degree / auayleth nat for to stryue
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                                  ¶ . Than is it wysdom / as it thynketh me
                                
                                  To maken vertue / of necessite
                                
                                  And take it wele / þat we may nat escheue
                                
                                  And namelich / þat to vs alle / is due
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                                  And who-so gruccheth ouȝt / he doth folie
                                
                                  That rebel is to hym / þat al may gye
                                
                                  And certeynly / a man hath most honour
                                
                                  To dyen / in his excellence and flour
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                                  Whan he is syker / of his good name
                                
                                  Than hath he don / his frend ne him no shame
                                
                                  And gladdere ought his frend / ben of his deth
                                
                                  Whan þat with honour / ȝolden is his breth
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                                  Than whan his name / appalled is for age
                                
                                  ffor al forgetyn / is his vassillage
                                
                                  Than is it best / as for a worthy fame
                                
                                  To dyen / whan he is best of name
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                                  The contrary of al this / is wylfulnesse
                                
                                  Why grucchen we / why haue we heuynesse
                                
                                  That good Arcite / of Chyualrie the flour
                                
                                  Departed ys / with duete and honour
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                                  Ouȝt of this foul prison / of this lyf
                                
                                  Why grucchen heere / his Cosyn and his wyff [folio 38b] 
                                
                                  Of his welfare / that louen him so wele
                                
                                  Can he hem thank / nay god wot / neuere a dele
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                                  That bothe his soule / and eke hem self offend
                                
                                  And ȝet they moun / here lustes nat a-mend
                                
                                  ¶ . What may I concluden / of this long serie
                                
                                  But after woo / I rede vs alle be merye
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                                  And thanken Iubiter / of al his grace
                                
                                  And er we departen / from this place
                                
                                  I rede we make / of sorwes two
                                
                                  O parfyt Ioye / lastyng euere moo
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                                  And loketh now / where most sorwe is here-Inne
                                
                                  There wyl I first amenden / and bygynne

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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 87
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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