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 ...

                                
                                  Therfore I passe / as lightly as I may
                                
                                  It fel / that in the / vij / ȝere / in May
                                
                                  The thridde nyght / as olde bokes seyn
                                
                                  That al this storie / tellen more pleyn
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                                  were it by auenture / or destyne
                                
                                  As whan a þing is shapen / it shal be [¶ verum est] 
                                
                                  That sone after the mydnyght / Palamon
                                
                                  Be helpyng of a frende / brake his prison
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                                  And fleeth the Citee / as fast as he may go
                                
                                  ffor he had ȝeue / his Iayler drynke so
                                
                                  Of Clarry / mad of a certeyn wyne
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                                  with Nerkotikes and opye / of Thebes fyne [¶ Opium The|banum] 
                                
                                  That al þat nyght / þough þat men wold him shake
                                
                                  The Iayler slep so / he myght nouȝt wake
                                
                                  ¶ . And thus he fleeth / as fast as euere he may
                                
                                  The nyght was short / and fast by the day
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                                  That nedes cost / he must him seluen hyde
                                
                                  And to a groue / fast there besyde
                                
                                  with dredful fote / than walketh Palamon
                                
                                  ffor shortly / this was his oppinyon
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                                  That in þat groue / he wold him hyde al day
                                
                                  And in the nyght / þan wold he take his wey
                                
                                  To Thebes ward / his frendes for to pray
                                
                                  On Theseus to helpen him / to werrey
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                                  And shortly / eiþer he wold lese hise lyf
                                
                                  On wynnen Emelye / vn-to his wyf
                                
                                  This is þe effect / and his entent pleyn
                                
                                  ¶ . Now wyl I turne / to Arcite a-geyn
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                                  That litel wyst / how ny þat was his care
                                
                                  Til þat fortune / had brought him in þe snare
                                
                                  The besy larke / the messanger of day
                                
                                  Saleweth in hir song / the morwe gray
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                                  And verray Phebus / riseth vp so bryght
                                
                                  That al þe orient / laugheth of þe light
                                
                                  And with hise stremes / drieth in the greues
                                
                                  The siluer dropes / hangyng on the leues

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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 43
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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