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

                                
                                  Be-for me sorweful wreche cryature
                                
                                  Out of this prysoun help þat we may skape
                                
                                  And ȝif so be myn destene be schape
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                                  By eterne world to deyen in presoun [folio 147a] 
                                
                                  Of oure kynrede haue sum compassioun
                                
                                  That is so lowe brouȝt be tyranye
                                
                                  And with that word Arcite gan asspie
                                  Line 1112 
                                
                                  Where as this lady romede to & fro
                                
                                  And with that syȝt here beute hurte hym so
                                
                                  That ȝif þat Palamoun was woundede sore [III. 16-17. (reversing the or|der of the names.)] 
                                
                                  Arcite is hurt as wel as he or more
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                                  And with a sik he seyde pitously
                                
                                  The frossche beute sloth me sodeynly
                                
                                  Of here that romyth in the ȝondir plase
                                
                                  And but I haue here mersy & here grase
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                                  That I may sen here at the leste weye
                                
                                  I nam but ded þere nys no more to seye
                                
                                  This Palamoun whan he þo wordis herde
                                
                                  Dispitousli he lokede & answerde
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                                  Wheþer seyst þou this in ernest or in pley
                                
                                  Nay quod arcyte in ernest be myn fey
                                
                                  God help me so me lyst but euel pleye
                                
                                  This palamoun gan knytte hese browis tweye
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                                  It were to the quod he no gret honour [The whole debate in prison is an imitation of the longer debate (in the Teseide) when they meet in the grove.]  [V. 43.] 
                                
                                  ffor to be fals ne for to be traytour
                                
                                  To me that am thyn cosyn & thyn brothir
                                
                                  I-sworn ful depe & eche of vs to oþer
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                                  That neuere for to deyin in peyne
                                
                                  Til that the deth departe schal vs tweyne
                                
                                  Neyþer of vs in loue to hynderyn oþer
                                
                                  Ne in non oþer cas myn leue broþer
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                                  But þat þou schuldist trewely forþere me
                                
                                  In euery cas & I schal forthere the
                                
                                  This was þyn oth & myn also serteyn
                                
                                  I wote it wel þou darist it not with-seyn
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                                  Thus art þou of myn conseyl out of doute

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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 33
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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