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

                                
                                  ¶ By proces / and by lengthe of certeyn yerys
                                
                                  Al stynt is / the moornynge and the terys
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                                  Of Grekys / by oon general assent
                                
                                  Thanne semed me / ther was a parlement
                                
                                  At Atthenes / vp on a certeyn point and caas
                                
                                  Among the whiche pointes / y-spoken was
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                                  To haue / with certeyn contrees alliance
                                
                                  And haue fully / of Thebans obeisance
                                
                                  ffor which this noble Theseus anon
                                
                                  Leet senden / after gentil Palamon
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                                  Vnwist of hym / what was the cause and why [folio 39b] 
                                
                                  But in his blake clothes / sorwefully
                                
                                  He cam at his comandement / in hye
                                
                                  Tho sente Theseus / for Emelye
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                                  ¶ Whan they were set and hust was al the place
                                
                                  And Theseus / abiden hath a space
                                
                                  Er any word / cam from his wise brest/
                                
                                  His eyen sette he ther as was his lest
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                                  And with a sad visage / he siked stille
                                
                                  And after that right thus he seyde his wille
                                
                                  ¶ The firste moeuere / of the cause aboue [Nota] 
                                
                                  Whan he first made / the faire cheyne of loue
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                                  Greet was theffect and heigh was his entente
                                
                                  Wel wiste he why / and what ther of he mente
                                
                                  ffor with that faire cheyne of loue he boond
                                
                                  The fyr / the Eyr / the water / and the loond
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                                  In certeyn boundes / þat they may nat flee
                                
                                  That same Prince / and that moeuere quod he
                                
                                  Hath stabliced / in this wrecched world adoun
                                
                                  Certeine dayes / and duracioun
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                                  To al / that is engendred / in this place
                                
                                  Ouer the which day / they may nat pace
                                
                                  Al mowe they yet / tho dayes abregge
                                
                                  Ther nedeth / noon auctoritee to allegge
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                                  ffor it is proued / by experience
                                
                                  But þat me list declaren my sentence

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 85
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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