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 ...

                                
                                  That faught al day / and ȝet here part was non
                                
                                  There cam a kyte / whyle þei were so wrothe
                                
                                  And bar a-wey þe bon / bytwen hem bothe
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                                  And þerfore / at þe kynges court / my brother
                                
                                  Eche for him self / there is non other
                                
                                  ¶ loue if þou list / for I loue and ay shal
                                
                                  And sothly leue brother / this is al
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                                  Here in prison / mote we endure
                                
                                  And ech of vs / take his aventure
                                
                                  ¶ . Gret was þe strif / and longe bytwen hem twey
                                
                                  If þat I had leyser / for to sey
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                                  But to the effect / it happed on a day
                                
                                  To telle it ȝow / as shortly as I may
                                
                                  A worthy Duke / that hight Parotheus
                                
                                  That felawe was / to þis Duke theseus
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                                  Syn thilk day / þat þei were children lyte
                                
                                  was come to Athenes / his felawe to visite
                                
                                  ffor to pley / as he was wont to do
                                
                                  ffor in the world / he loued no man so
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                                  And he loued him / as tenderly a-geyn
                                
                                  So wele they loued / as olde bokes seyn
                                
                                  That whanne þat on was ded / soth to telle
                                
                                  his felawe went / & sought him doun in helle
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                                  But of that story / list ne nat to wryte
                                
                                  Duke Parotheus / loued wel Arcite
                                
                                  And had him knowe / at Thebes ȝere by ȝere
                                
                                  And finally at the request / and prayere
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                                  Of Parotheus / with-oute ony raunsom
                                
                                  Duke Theseus / lete him ouȝt of prison
                                
                                  ffreely to go / where as him list ouer alle
                                
                                  In swich a gyse / as I ȝow telle shalle
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                                  This was the forward / pleynly to endite
                                
                                  By-twene Theseus / and this Arcite
                                
                                  That if so were / þat Arcite were founde
                                
                                  Euere in his lyue / by day or nyght o stounde [folio 17b] 
                                
                                  In ony contre / of this Theseus

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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 35
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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