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

                                
                                  Of al the remenant of myn oother care
                                
                                  Ne sette I nat the montance of a tare
                                
                                  So þat I koude / doon aught to youre plesaunce
                                
                                  And with that word / he fil doun in a traunce
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                                  A longe tyme / and after he vp sterte
                                
                                  ¶ This Palamon / þat thoughte þat thurgh his herte
                                
                                  He felte a coold swerd / sodeynliche glyde
                                
                                  ffor Ire he quook / no lenger wolde he byde
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                                  And whan þat he / had herd Arcites tale
                                
                                  As he were wood / with face / deed and pale
                                
                                  He stirte hym vp / out of the buskes thikke
                                
                                  And seide Arcite / false traytour wikke
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                                  Now artow hent that louest my lady so
                                
                                  ffor whom þat I haue / al this peyne and wo
                                
                                  And art my blood / and to my conseil sworn
                                
                                  As I ful ofte / haue seyd thee heer biforn
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                                  And hast byiaped heere / duc Theseus
                                
                                  And falsly / chaunged hast / thy name thus
                                
                                  I wol be deed / or elles thou shalt dye
                                
                                  Thou shalt nat / loue my lady Emelye
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                                  But I wol loue hire oonly / and namo
                                
                                  ffor I am Palamon / thy mortal foo
                                
                                  And though þat I no wepene haue in this place
                                
                                  But out of prison / am astert by grace
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                                  I drede noght / þat outher thow shalt dye
                                
                                  Or thow ne shalt nat louen Emelye
                                
                                  Chees which thou wolt or thou shalt nat asterte
                                
                                  ¶ This Arcite / with ful despitous herte
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                                  Whan he hym knew / and hadde his tale herd
                                
                                  As fiers as leon / pulled out his swerd
                                
                                  And seyde thus / by god þat sit aboue
                                
                                  Nere it / þat thou art sik and wood for loue
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                                  And eek þat thow no wepne hast in this place
                                
                                  Thou sholdest neuere / out of this groue pace
                                
                                  That thou ne sholdest dyen of myn hond
                                
                                  ffor I defye / the seurete and the bond

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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 46
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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