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 ...

                                
                                  with othere riȝtes mo / and at the last
                                
                                  ¶ . The statute of Mars / bygan his hauberk rynge
                                
                                  And with þat soun / he herd a murmurynge
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                                  fful lowe and dym / and seide thus / victorie
                                
                                  ffor which / he ȝaf to Mars / honour and glorie
                                
                                  ¶ . And thus with ioye / and hope wel to fare
                                
                                  Arcite a-non / vn-to his In is fare
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                                  As fayn as foul / is of the bryght sonne
                                
                                  And right a-non / swich a strif / þere is bygonne
                                
                                  ffor thilke grauntyng / in þe heuene a-boue
                                
                                  Betwix venus / the goddesse of loue
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                                  And Mars / the sterne god armypotent
                                
                                  That Iubiter was besy / it to stent
                                
                                  Til þat the pale / Saturnus / the colde
                                
                                  That knew so manye / of auentures olde
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                                  ffond in his old experience / and art
                                
                                  That the ful sone / hath plesed euery part
                                
                                  As soth is seid / elde hath gret auauntage [¶ Nota] 
                                
                                  In elde is bothe wysdom / and vsage
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                                  Men may the olde at renne / and nat at rede
                                
                                  Saturne a-non / to stynten stryf and drede
                                
                                  Al be it / þat it is / a-geyn his kynde
                                
                                  Of al this strif / he can remedye fynde
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                                  ¶ . My dere doughter Venus / quod Saturne
                                
                                  My cours / that hath so wyde / for to turne
                                
                                  Hath more powere / than wot ony man
                                
                                  Myn is the drenchyng / in the see so wan
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                                  Myn is the pryson / in the derke Cote
                                
                                  Myn is the strangelyng / & hangyng by the throte
                                
                                  The murmur / and the cherles rebellyng
                                
                                  The groynyng / and the pryue enpoysenyng
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                                  I do vengeaunce / and pleyn correccion
                                
                                  While I dwelle in þe signe / of the lyon
                                
                                  Myn is the ruyne / of the heye halles
                                
                                  The fallyng of the Toures / and of the walles [folio 32a] 
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                                  Vp-on the Mynour / or the Carpentere

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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 70
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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