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 ...

                                
                                  To don þat ony wyght / can him deuyse
                                
                                  A ȝere or two / he was in this seruyse
                                
                                  Page of the chaumbre / of Emelye the bryght
                                
                                  And Philostrate he seide / that he hight
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                                  But half so wel byloued a man / as he
                                
                                  Ne was þere neuere in courte / of his degre
                                
                                  he was so gentil / of condicioun
                                
                                  That þorugh-ouȝt al þe court / was his renoun
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                                  They seiden þat it were / a charite
                                
                                  That Theseus wold / enhaunce his degre
                                
                                  And putten him / in worshipful seruyse
                                
                                  There as he myght / his vertue exercise
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                                  And thus with-Inne a while / his name is spronge
                                
                                  Both of his dedes / and his goode tonge
                                
                                  That Theseus hath taken him / so nere
                                
                                  That of his chaumbre / he mad him a squyere
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                                  And ȝaf him gold / to meyntene his degree
                                
                                  And eke men brouȝt him / ouȝt of his contre
                                
                                  ffrom ȝere to ȝere / ful preuyly his rent
                                
                                  But honestly & slily / he it spent
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                                  That no man wondrede / how þat he it hadde
                                
                                  And thre ȝere in this wyse / his lyf he ladde
                                
                                  And bar him so in pees / and eke in werre
                                
                                  There was no man / þat Theseus hath derre
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                                  ¶ . And in this blisse / lete I now Arcite
                                
                                  And speke I wyl of Palamon / a lyte
                                
                                  In derknesse and orrible / and strong prison
                                
                                  This seuene ȝer / hath seten Palamon
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                                  ffor-pyned / what for woo / and for distresse
                                
                                  who feleth double soor / and heuynesse
                                
                                  But Palamon / þat loue distreyneth so
                                
                                  That wod ouȝt of his wytte / he goth for woo
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                                  And eke ther-to / he is a prisonere
                                
                                  Perpetuelly / nought oonly for a ȝere
                                
                                  ¶ . who coude ryme / in englyssh proprely [folio 20b] 
                                
                                  hys martirdom / by god it am nat I

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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 42
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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