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 ...

                                  
                                    with-oute doute / it may stonde so
                                  
                                    The answere of þis / lete I to deuynes
                                  
                                    But wel I wot / in þis world gret peyne is
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                                    ¶ . Allas / I se a serpent or a thef
                                  
                                    That many a trewe man / hath do myschef
                                  
                                    Gon at his large / & where him list may turne
                                  
                                    But I mot be in prison / thurugh saturne
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                                    And eke þurugh Iuno Ielous / and eke wode
                                  
                                    That hath wel ny destroyed / al the blode
                                  
                                    Of Thebes / with his wast walles wyde
                                  
                                    And Venus sleth me / on þat other syde
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                                    ffor ielousye / and feer of þis Arcite
                                  
                                    Now wyl I stynt / of Palamon a lyte
                                  
                                    And lete him in this prison stille dwelle [folio 19a] 
                                  
                                    And of Arcite / forth I wyl ȝow telle
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                                    ¶ . The somer passeth / & the nyghtes longe
                                  
                                    Encresynge double wyse / the peynes stronge
                                  
                                    Bothe of the louere / and of the prisoner
                                  
                                    I ne wot which hath / the sorwefullest myster
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                                    ffor shortly to seyn / this Palamon
                                  
                                    Perpetuelly / is dampned to prison
                                  
                                    In cheynes and in feteres / to be ded
                                  
                                    And Arcite is exiled / vp-on his hed
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                                    ffor euere more / ouȝt of þat contre
                                  
                                    Ne neuere more / he shal his lady se
                                  
                                    Now louyers I ask ȝow / this question
                                  
                                    Who hath the werse / Arcite or Palamon
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                                    That on may se his lady / day by day
                                  
                                    But in prison / mote he dwellen ay
                                  
                                    That other where him list / may ride or go
                                  
                                    But sen his lady / shal he neuere mo
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                                    Now demeth as ȝow list / ȝe þat can
                                  
                                    ffor I wyl telle ȝow forth / as I began

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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 39
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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