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 ...

                                
                                  ffare wel my lyf / my lust / and my gladnesse
                                
                                  ¶ . Allas why pleyne so folk / in comune
                                
                                  Of purueance of god / or of fortune
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                                  That ȝeueth hem ful oft / in many gyse [folio 18a] 
                                
                                  wel beter / þanne þei can / hem self deuyse
                                
                                  Somme men desire / for to haue richesse
                                
                                  That cause is of here mordre / or gret seknes
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                                  And somme man wold / out of prison fayn
                                
                                  That in his hous / is of his meyne slayn
                                
                                  Infenyt harmes / ben in this matere
                                
                                  we wot neuere / what we preisen here
                                  Line 1260 
                                
                                  we faren as he / þat dronken is as a mous
                                
                                  A dronke man wot wel / he hath an hous
                                
                                  But he ne wot which is / þe right weye theder
                                
                                  And to a dronke man / the weye is slyder
                                  Line 1264 
                                
                                  And certes in þis world / so fare we
                                
                                  we seke fast after / felicite
                                
                                  But we gon wrong / ful ofte trewely
                                
                                  Thus may we seyn alle / and namely I
                                  Line 1268 
                                
                                  That wende / and had / a gret opinyon
                                
                                  That if I myght escape / from prison
                                
                                  Than had I ben / in ioye & parfyt hele
                                
                                  That now am exiled / fro my wele
                                  Line 1272 
                                
                                  Syn I may nouȝt se ȝow / Emelye
                                
                                  I am but ded / þere is non oþer remedye
                                
                                  ¶ . Vp-on þat oþer side / Palamon
                                
                                  whan þat he wist / þat Arcite was gon
                                  Line 1276 
                                
                                  Swich sorwe he maketh / þat the grete Tour
                                
                                  Resouned of his Ianglyng / and clamour
                                
                                  The pure feteres / on his shynes grete
                                
                                  were of his bittere / salt teres / wete
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                                  Allas quod he / Arcite Cosyn myn
                                
                                  Of al oure strif / god wot þe fruyt is thyn
                                
                                  Thow walkest now / in Thebes at thy large
                                
                                  And of my woo / þou ȝeuest litel charge
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                                  Thow maist / sithe þou hast / wysdom & manhode

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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 37
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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