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

                                
                                  Ther fore I passe / as lightly / as I may
                                
                                  ¶ It fil / þat / in that Seuenthe yeer of May
                                
                                  The thridde nyght. as olde bokes seyn [folio 20b] 
                                
                                  That al this storie / tellen moore pleyn
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                                  Were it by auenture / or destynee
                                
                                  As whan a thyng is shapen / it shal be
                                
                                  That soone after the mydnyght Palamon
                                
                                  By helpyng of a freend / brak his prison
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                                  And fleeth the Citee / faste as he may go
                                
                                  ffor he hadde yeue / his Gailler drynke so
                                
                                  Of a Clarree / maad of certeyn wyn
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                                  With Nercotikes / and opye / of Thebes fyn // [Opium Thebaicum.] 
                                
                                  That al that nyght. thogh þat men wolde hym shake
                                
                                  The Gailler sleepe / he myghte noght awake
                                
                                  ¶ And thus he fleeth / as faste as euere he may
                                
                                  The nyght was short and faste by the day
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                                  That nedes cost he moste hym seluen hyde
                                
                                  And til a groue / faste ther bisyde
                                
                                  With dreedful foot thanne stalketh Palamon
                                
                                  ffor shortly / this was his opynyon
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                                  That in that groue / he wolde hym hyde al day
                                
                                  And in the nyght thanne wolde he take his way
                                
                                  To Thebesward / his freendes for to preye
                                
                                  On Theseus / to helpe hym to werreye
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                                  And shortly / outher he wolde lese his lyf
                                
                                  Or wynnen Emelie / vn to his wyf
                                
                                  This is theffect and his entente pleyn
                                
                                  ¶ Now wol I turne / to Arcite ageyn
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                                  That litel wiste / how neigh þat was his care
                                
                                  Til þat ffortune / hadde broght hym / in the snare
                                
                                  ¶ The bisy larke / messager of day
                                
                                  Salueth in hir song the morwe gray
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                                  And firy Phebus / riseth vp so brighte
                                
                                  That al the Orient. laugheth of the lighte
                                
                                  And with his stremes / dryeth in the greues
                                
                                  The siluer dropes / hangynge on the leues

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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 43
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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