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 ...

                                
                                  Of all þe remenaunt of myn other care
                                
                                  Ne set I nat the mountance of a tare
                                
                                  So that I koude do ought to your plesance
                                
                                  And with that word he felle doun in a trance
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                                  A long tyme and afterward he vp sterte
                                
                                  This palamon that thoght that thurgh his hert
                                
                                  He felt a cold swerd sodeinly glyde
                                
                                  ffor Ire he quoke no lenger wold he byde
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                                  And whan that he hade herde Arcites tale
                                
                                  As he were wode with face dede and pale
                                
                                  He stert hym vp out of the buskes thykke
                                
                                  And seide Arcite fals traytour wykke
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                                  Now art þou hent þow louest my lady so
                                
                                  ffor whom that I haue all this peyn and wo
                                
                                  And art my blode and to my counseill sworn
                                
                                  As I full oft haue told the here byforn
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                                  And hast beiaped here duk theseus
                                
                                  And falsly chaunged hast þow þy name thus
                                
                                  I woll be dede or elles þow shalt dye
                                
                                  Thow shalt nat loue my lady Emelye
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                                  But I woll loue hir onely and no mo
                                
                                  ffor I am palamon thy mortall fo
                                
                                  And þough þat I no wepen haue in this place
                                
                                  But out of prison am stert by grace
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                                  I drede nat that other þow shalt dye
                                
                                  Or þou ne shalt nat loven Emelye
                                
                                  Chese which þou wolt or þou shalt nat sterte
                                
                                  This Arcite with full dispitous hert
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                                  Whan he hym knewe and hade his tale herde
                                
                                  As fers as a lyon pulled out his swerde
                                
                                  And seide thus by god that sitteth aboue
                                
                                  Nere it that þou art seke and wode for loue [Eg. 2726 folio 21a] 
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                                  And eke that thow no wepen hast in this place
                                
                                  Thow shuldest neuere out of this greue pace
                                
                                  That thow ne sholdest dyen of my honde
                                
                                  ffor I desire the seurtee and the bonde

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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 46
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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