Ne may the venym / voyden ne expelle
The pipes of his longes / gonne to swelle
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And euery lacerte / in his brest adoun
Is shent with venym and corrupcion
Hym gayneth neither for to gete his lif [folio 34a]
Vomyt vpward / ne dounward laxatif
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Al is tobrosten / thilke Regioun
Nature hath now / no dominacioun
And certeinly / ther Nature wol nat wirche
ffare wel Phisik go ber the man to chirche
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This al and som / that Arcita moot dye
ffor which / he sendeth / after Emelye
And Palamon / that was his cosyn deere
Thanne seyde he thus / as ye shal after heere
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¶ Naught may / the woful spirit in myn herte
Declare o point of alle my sorwes smerte
To yow my lady / that I loue moost
But I biquethe / the seruyce of my goost
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To yow / abouen euery creature
Syn þat my lyf / [it] may no lenger dure
Allas the wo / allas the peynes stronge
That I for yow haue suffred / and so longe
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Allas the deeth / allas myn Emelye
Allas / departynge of our compaignye
Allas myn hertes queene / allas my wyf
Myn hertes lady / endere of my lyf/
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What is this world / what asketh men to haue
Now with his loue / now in his colde graue
Allone / with outen any compaignye
ffare wel / my swete foo / myn Emelye
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And softe taak me / in youre Armes tweye
ffor loue of god / and herkneth what I seye
I haue heer / with my cosyn Palamon
Had strif and rancour/ many a day agon
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ffor loue of yow / and for my Ialousye
And Iuppiter / so wys my soule gye
