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 in the rescuys / of þis Palamon
                                
                                  The strong kyng lygurge / is born a-doun
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                                  And kyng Emetrius / for al his strengthe
                                
                                  Is born ouȝt of his sadel / a swerd lengthe [folio 34a] 
                                
                                  So hit him Palamon / er he were take
                                
                                  But al for nought / he was brouȝt to þe stake
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                                  his hardy hert / myght him help right nought
                                
                                  he must abide / whan that he was caught
                                
                                  By force / and eke by composicion
                                
                                  ¶ . who sorweth now / but wooful Palamon
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                                  That mot no more / gon a-geyn to fight
                                
                                  And whan that Theseus / had seyn þis sight
                                
                                  Vn-to the folk / that foughten thus echon
                                
                                  He cried hoo no more / for it is don
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                                  I wol be trewe Iugge / and no partie
                                
                                  Arcite of Thebes / shal haue Emelie
                                
                                  That by his fortune / hath hire faire I-wonne
                                
                                  A-non there is a noyse / of peeple bygonne
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                                  ffor ioye of this / so loude and hye with-alle
                                
                                  It semed that the listes / shulde falle
                                
                                  ¶ . what can now / fayr venus don a-boue
                                
                                  what seith she now / what doth this Quene of loue
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                                  But wepeth so / wantyng of hire wylle
                                
                                  Til that hire teres / in the listes felle
                                
                                  She seide / I am a-shamed douteles
                                
                                  ¶ . Saturnus seide / doughter hold þin pes
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                                  Mars hath his wylle / his knyght hath al his bone
                                
                                  And be myn hede / þou shalt ben eesed sone
                                
                                  The trompoures / with the loude Mynstralsye
                                
                                  The heraudes / that ful loude / ȝelle and crye
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                                  Ben in here wele / for Ioye of Daun Arcite
                                
                                  But herkeneth now / and stynteth noyse a lite
                                
                                  which a miracle / there fel a-non
                                
                                  This fiers Arcite / hath of his helm don
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                                  And on a Courser / for to shewe his face
                                
                                  he preketh endlong / the large place

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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 76
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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