The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  This sorweful louere this palamoun
                                
                                  Goth in the chambre romynge to & fro
                                
                                  And to hymselue compleynynge of hese wo
                                  Line 1072 
                                
                                  That I was born ful ofte he seyde allas [folio 146b] 
                                
                                  And so be-fel be auenture & cas
                                
                                  That þorow a wyndowe thikke of manye a barre [III. 11.] 
                                
                                  Of yryn gret & squere as ony sparre
                                  Line 1076 
                                
                                  He caste his eye vp on emelyea
                                
                                  And þerwithal he blenthe & cryede A [. . . tutto stordito, Gridò, Ome! III. 17.] 
                                
                                  As thow he stongyn were to þe herte
                                
                                  And with þat cry a-non arcite vp styrte
                                  Line 1080 
                                
                                  And seyde cosyn myn what eylith þe
                                
                                  That art so pale & dedly on to se
                                
                                  Whi cryestow who hath the don offense
                                
                                  ffor goddys loue tak al in pacience
                                  Line 1084 
                                
                                  Oure prysoun for it may non oþer be
                                
                                  ffortune haþ [[o altered]]  ȝouyn vs þis aduersite
                                
                                  Sum wekede aspect or disposicioun
                                
                                  Of saturne by sum constolacioun
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                                  Hath ȝouyn vs þis al-þow we hadde it sworn
                                
                                  So stod the heuene whan that we were born
                                
                                  We muste endure it þis is the schorte & pleyn
                                
                                  This Palamoun onswerde & seyde a-geyn
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                                  Cosyn for sothe of this opynyoun
                                
                                  þow hast a vayn ymagynacyoun
                                
                                  This prisoun causede me not for to crye
                                
                                  But I was hort ryȝt now thorgh-out myn ye [III. 16.] 
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                                  In-to myn herte that wele myn bane be [III. 20.] 
                                
                                  The fayrenesse of myn lady þat I se
                                
                                  Ȝond in the gardyn romyn to & fro
                                
                                  Is cause of al myn cryinge & myn wo
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                                  I ne wot wheþer sche be woman or godesse
                                
                                  But venus it is sothly as I gesse [III. 14.] 
                                
                                  And þerwithal on kneis doun he fel
                                
                                  And seyde Venus ȝif it be þyn wil
                                  Line 1104 
                                
                                  Ȝow in this gardyn thus to transfigure

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 32
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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