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

                                
                                  They foghte alday / and yet hir part was noon
                                
                                  Ther cam a kyte / whil þat they were so wrothe
                                
                                  That bar awey the boon / bitwix hem bothe
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                                  And therfore / at the kynges court my brother
                                
                                  Ech man for hym self / ther is noon oother
                                
                                  Loue if thee lest. for I loue / and ay shal [folio 17a] 
                                
                                  And soothly / leue brother this is al
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                                  Heere in this prison / moote we endure
                                
                                  And euerich of vs / take his auenture
                                
                                  ¶ Greet was the stryf / and long bitwix hem tweye
                                
                                  If þat I hadde leyser for to seye
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                                  But to theffect / it happed on a day
                                
                                  To telle it yow / as shortly as I may
                                
                                  A worthy duc. þat highte Parotheus
                                
                                  That felawe was / vn to duc Theseus
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                                  Syn thilke day / þat they were children lyte
                                
                                  Was come to Atthenes / his felawe to visite
                                
                                  And for to pleye / as he was wont to do
                                
                                  ffor in this world / he loued no man so
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                                  And he loued hym / as tendrely agayn
                                
                                  So wel they loued / as olde bookes sayn
                                
                                  That whan þat oon was deed / soothly to telle
                                
                                  His felawe wente / and soghte hym down in helle
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                                  But of that storie / list me noght to write
                                
                                  Duc Perotheus / loued wel Arcite
                                
                                  And hadde hym knowe at Thebes / yeer oy yere
                                
                                  And finally / at requeste and prayere
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                                  Of Perotheus / with outen any raunson
                                
                                  Duc Theseus / hym leet out of prison
                                
                                  ffrely to goon / wher þat hym liste ouer al
                                
                                  In swich a gyse / as I yow tellen shal
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                                  This was the forward / pleynly for tendite
                                
                                  Bitwixe Theseus / and hym Arcite
                                
                                  That if so weere þat Arcite weere yfounde
                                
                                  Euere in his lyf / by day / or nyght or stounde
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                                  In any contree / of this Theseus

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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 35
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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