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 ...

                                
                                  Now vp now doun as boket in a well
                                
                                  Right as þe friday sothly for to tell
                                
                                  Now yt shineth now it reyneth fast
                                
                                  Right so caan gery venus ouer-cast
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                                  The hertes of hir folk right as hir day
                                
                                  Is geer-full right so chaungeth she array
                                
                                  Selde is the friday all the woke lyke
                                
                                  Whan that Arcite hade songe he gan to syke
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                                  And set him doun with-outen ony more
                                
                                  Allas quod he that day þat I was bore
                                
                                  How longe Iuno thurgh thy cruelte
                                
                                  Wyll þou weren Thebes the Cite
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                                  Allas ybrought is to confusion
                                
                                  The blode ryall of Cadme and amphion
                                
                                  Of Cadmus which that was the first man
                                
                                  That Thebes bylde or first the toun began
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                                  And of þe Cite first was crowned Kyng
                                
                                  Of his lynage am I and his of-spring
                                
                                  By verray lyne as of the stok roiall
                                
                                  And now I am so kaytyfd and so thrall
                                  Line 1552 
                                
                                  That he that is my mortall enemy
                                
                                  I serue him as his squier pourely
                                
                                  And yit doth Iuno me wel more shame
                                
                                  I dare nat byknow myn owen name
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                                  But there as I was wont to hight Arcite
                                
                                  Now hight I philostrate nat worth a mite
                                
                                  Allas þow fell mars allas Iuno
                                
                                  Thus hath your Ire all our lynage for-do [Eg. 2726 folio 20b] 
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                                  Saue only me and wrecched Palamon
                                
                                  That Theseus martireth in his prison
                                
                                  And ouer all this to sle me outerly
                                
                                  Loue hath his verry dart so brennyngly
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                                  Isteked thurgh my trewe carefull hert
                                
                                  That shapen was my dethe erst er my shert
                                
                                  Ye sle me with your yeen Emelye
                                
                                  Ye been the cause wherfore that I dye

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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 45
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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