The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And Arcita / that is in the court Roial
                                
                                  With Theseus / his Squier principal
                                
                                  Is risen / and looketh on the myrie day
                                
                                  And for to doon / his obseruaunce to May
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                                  Remembrynge / on the poynt of his desir
                                
                                  He on a Courser / startlynge as the fir
                                
                                  Is riden in to the feeldes / hym to pleye
                                
                                  Out of the Court were it a myle or tweye
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                                  And to the groue / of which þat I yow tolde
                                
                                  By auenture / his wey / he gan to holde
                                
                                  To maken hym / a gerland / of the greues
                                
                                  Were it of wodebynde / or hawethorn leues
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                                  And loude he song ayeyn the sonne shene
                                
                                  May / with alle thy floures and thy grene
                                
                                  Wel come be thou / faire fresshe May
                                
                                  In hope / þat I som grene gete may
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                                  And from his courser / with a lusty herte
                                
                                  In to a groue / ful hastily he sterte
                                
                                  And in a path / he rometh vp and doun
                                
                                  Ther as by auenture / this Palamon
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                                  Was in a bussh / that no man myghte hym se [folio 21a] 
                                
                                  ffor soore aferd of his deeth / thanne was he
                                
                                  No thyng ne knew he / that it was Arcite
                                
                                  God woot he wolde haue trowed it ful lite
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                                  But sooth is seyd / go sithen many yeres
                                
                                  That feeld hath eyen / and the wode hath eres
                                
                                  It is ful fair / a man to bere hym euene
                                
                                  ffor al day / meeteth men at vnset steuene
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                                  fful litel woot Arcite of his felawe
                                
                                  That was so ny / to herknen al his sawe
                                
                                  ffor in the bussh / he sitteth now ful stille
                                
                                  ¶ Whan þat Arcite / hadde romed al his fille
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                                  And songen al the roundel lustily
                                
                                  In to a studie / he fil al sodeynly
                                
                                  As doon thise loueres / in hir queynte geres
                                
                                  Now in the crope / now doun in the breres

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 44
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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