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 ...

                                
                                  Arrayed was þis god / as I tok kepe
                                
                                  As he was / whan Argus / toke his slepe
                                
                                  And seide him thus / to Athenes shalt þou wende
                                
                                  There is the shapen / of thy woo an ende
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                                  ¶ . And with that word / Arcite woke and stirt
                                
                                  Now trewely / how sore þat me smert
                                
                                  Quod he / to Athenes / right now wyl I fare
                                
                                  Ne for the drede of deth / I wyl nat spare
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                                  To se my lady / whom þat I loue and serue
                                
                                  In hire presence / I rekke nouȝt / though I sterue
                                
                                  And with þat word / he caught a gret Myrour
                                
                                  And saw / þat chaunged was al his colour
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                                  And saw his visage / al in an oþer kynde
                                
                                  And right a-non / it ran him in his mynde
                                
                                  That sithe his face / was so disfigured
                                
                                  Of maladye / that he had endured
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                                  He myght wele ȝeue / that he bare hym lowe
                                
                                  Lyue in Athenes / eueremore vnknowe
                                
                                  And sen his lady / wel ny day by day
                                
                                  And right a-non / he chaunged his array
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                                  And clad him / as a pore laborere
                                
                                  And al a-lone / saue oonly a squyere
                                
                                  That knew his preuyte / and al his cas
                                
                                  which was disgysed / porely as he was
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                                  To a Athenes is he gon / the next wey
                                
                                  And to the court / he com on a dey
                                
                                  And at the gate / he profred his seruyse
                                
                                  To drugge and drawe / what men wold deuyse [folio 20a] 
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                                  And shortly of this matere / for to seyn
                                
                                  He fel in office / with a Chaumberleyn
                                
                                  The which þat dwellyng was / with Emelye
                                
                                  ffor he was wys / and coude sone espie
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                                  Of euery seruaunt / which þat serueth hire
                                
                                  wel coude he hewe / wode / and water bere
                                
                                  ffor he was ȝong & myghty / for þe nones
                                
                                  And ther-to he was long / and bygge of bones

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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 41
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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