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 ...

                                
                                  And as I trowe / with loue offended most
                                
                                  That euere was ony / lyues creature
                                
                                  ffor she þat doth me / al this woo endure
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                                  Ne reccheth neuere / wheiþer I synke or flete
                                
                                  And wel I wot / or she me mercy hete
                                
                                  I mot with strengthe / wynne hire in the place
                                
                                  And wel I wot / with-outen help & grace
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                                  Of the / ne may my strengthe / nat a-vaille
                                
                                  Than help me lord / to-morwe in my bataille
                                
                                  ffor thilk fire / that whilom brent the
                                
                                  As wele as thilk fire / now brenneth me
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                                  And do þat I to-morwe / may han victorie
                                
                                  Myn be the trauaylle / & thyn be the glorie
                                
                                  Thy souereygne temple / wyl I most honoure
                                
                                  Of ony place / and alwey most laboure
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                                  In thy plesaunce / and in thy craftes strong
                                
                                  And in thy temple / I wol my baner hong
                                
                                  And alle the armes / of my companye
                                
                                  And euere mo / vn-to that day I dye
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                                  Eterne fyre / I wyl byfore the fynde
                                
                                  And eke to this a-vow / I wyl me bynde
                                
                                  My berd myn her / þat hangeth long a-doun
                                
                                  That neuere ȝet felte / nor offension
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                                  Of Rasour ne of shere / I wyl the ȝeue
                                
                                  And ben thyn trewe seruaunt / whyl I lyue
                                
                                  Now lord haue reuthe / vp-on my sorwes sore [folio 31b] 
                                
                                  Ȝeue me the victorie / I aske the no more
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                                  ¶ . The prayer stynt / of Arcita the strong
                                
                                  The rynges of the temple dore / þat hong
                                
                                  And eke the dores / clateren ful faste
                                
                                  Of which Arcita / som-what him a-gaste
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                                  The fires brent / vp-on the auter bryght
                                
                                  That it gan / al the temple for to light
                                
                                  A swete smel / a-non / þe ground vp ȝaue
                                
                                  And Arcita a-non / his hand vp haue
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                                  And more encens / in-to the fyr he cast

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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 69
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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