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 ...

                                
                                  Byfore me sorowfull wrecched creature
                                
                                  Out of this prison helpe þat we may skape
                                
                                  And yf so be our desteny be shape
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                                  By eterne worde to dey in prison
                                
                                  Of our linage haue som compassion
                                
                                  That is so lowe brought by tyrannye
                                
                                  And with that worde Arcite gan aspie
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                                  Where as this lady romed to and fro
                                
                                  And with þat sight hir beaute hurt him so
                                
                                  That yf þat palamon was wounded sore
                                
                                  Arcite is hurt as moch or more
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                                  And with þat sight he seide pitously
                                
                                  Thy fressh beaute sleth me sodeinly
                                
                                  Of hir þat rometh þere in yondre place
                                
                                  And but yf I haue hir mercy and hir grace
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                                  That I may seyn hir at the lest wey [Eg. 2726 folio 15a] 
                                
                                  I am but dede there is no more to sey
                                
                                  This palamon whan he thise wordes herd
                                
                                  Dispitously he loked and answerd
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                                  Whether seist thow this in ernest or in play
                                
                                  Nay quod Arcite in ernest by my fay
                                
                                  God helpe me so me lust yuell to pley
                                
                                  This palamon gan to knytte his browes twey
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                                  Yt were to the quod he no grete honour
                                
                                  ffor to be fals and for to be a traytour
                                
                                  To me that am þy Cosyn and þy brother
                                
                                  Isworn full depe and ecch of vs to other
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                                  That neuer for to dey in peyne
                                
                                  Till þat the deth depart shall vs tweyne
                                
                                  Neyther of vs in loue to hynder other
                                
                                  Ne in none other caas my leve brother
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                                  But that þou sholdest trewly forther me
                                
                                  In euery caas as I shall forther the
                                
                                  This was thine· othe· and myn certeyn
                                
                                  I wote right wele þou darst it nat withseyn
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                                  Thus art þou of my counseill out of dout

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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 33
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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