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

                                
                                  To doon / what any wight kan hym deuyse
                                
                                  A yeer / or two / he was in this seruyse
                                
                                  Page of the chambre / of Emelie the brighte
                                
                                  And Philostrate / he seyde þat he highte
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                                  ¶ But half so wel biloued a man / as he
                                
                                  Ne was ther neuere in Court of his degree
                                
                                  He was so gentil / of condicion
                                
                                  That thurgh out al the Court was his renon
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                                  They seiden / þat it were a charitee
                                
                                  That Theseus / wolde enhauncen his degree
                                
                                  And putten hym / in worshipful seruyse
                                
                                  Ther as he myghte / his vertu exercise
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                                  And thus with Inne a while / his name is spronge
                                
                                  Bothe of his dedes / and his goode tonge
                                
                                  That Theseus / hath taken hym so ner
                                
                                  That of his chambre / he made hym a Squier
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                                  And gaf hym gold / to mayntene his degree
                                
                                  And eek men broghte hym / out of his contree
                                
                                  ffro yeer to yeer / ful pryuely his rente
                                
                                  But honestly / and sleighly / he it spente
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                                  That no man wondred / how þat he it hadde
                                
                                  And thre yeer in this wise / his lyf he ladde
                                
                                  And bar hym so / in pees / and ek in werre
                                
                                  Ther was no man / that Theseus hath derre
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                                  And in this blisse / lete I now Arcite
                                
                                  And speke I wole / of Palamon alite
                                
                                  ¶ In derknesse / and horrible / and strong prison
                                
                                  This seuen yeer / hath seten Palamon
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                                  fforpyned / what for wo / and for distresse
                                
                                  Who feeleth / double soor / and heuynesse
                                
                                  But Palamon / that loue destreyneth so
                                
                                  That wood out of his wit he gooth for wo
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                                  And eek ther to / he is a prisoner
                                
                                  Perpetuelly / nat oonly for a yer
                                
                                  Who koude ryme / in englissh proprely
                                
                                  His martirdom / for sothe it am noght I

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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 42
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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