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 now þou woldest falsly bene about
                                
                                  To loue my lady whom I loue and serue
                                
                                  And euere shall tyll þat my hert sterue
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                                  Nay certes fals Arcite thow shalt nat so
                                
                                  I loued hir first and told the my wo
                                
                                  As to my counseill and to my brother sworn
                                
                                  To forther me as I haue told byforn
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                                  ffor which þou art bounde as a knight
                                
                                  To help me yf it lay in thy myght
                                
                                  Or elles art þou fals I dare wele seyn
                                
                                  This Arcite proudely spake ageyn
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                                  Thow shalt quod he be rather fals þan I
                                
                                  And þou art fals I telle the witterly
                                
                                  ffor parauenture I loued hir first or thow
                                
                                  What will þou sey þou wost it now
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                                  Whether she be a womman or a goddesse
                                
                                  Thyn is the affeccon of holynesse
                                
                                  And myn is love as to a creature
                                
                                  ffor which I telle the myn auenture
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                                  As to my Cosyn and my brother swore [Eg. 2726 folio 15b] 
                                
                                  I purpose þat þou lovedest hir byfore
                                
                                  Wost þou nat wele þat olde clerkes sawe
                                
                                  That who shall yeve lovers ony lawe
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                                  Love is a gretter lawe by my pan
                                
                                  Than be yeven may to ony erthly man
                                
                                  And therfore posityf lawe and swich decre
                                
                                  Is broken all day for love in ecch degre
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                                  A man most love nedys maugre in his hede
                                
                                  He may noght fle yt though he shold be dede [[Eg. 2726 ends]] 
                                
                                  Al be she / Mayde / wydewe / or ellis wyff/ [Dd. begins, leaf 17] 
                                
                                  And eke it is nouȝt likly / al thy lif/
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                                  To stonde in hire grace / no more shal I
                                
                                  ffor wel þou wost / thy seluen verayly
                                
                                  That þou and I / be dampned to prison
                                
                                  Perpetuelly / vs geyneth no raunson
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                                  We striue / as dide þe houndes / for þe bon

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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 34
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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