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

                                
                                  And now þou woldist falsely ben aboute
                                
                                  To loue myn lady whom I loue & serue
                                
                                  And euere schal tyl that myn herte sterue
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                                  Now certis false arcite þou schat not so [folio 147b] 
                                
                                  I louede here fyrst & tolde þe myn wo
                                
                                  As to myn conseyl & to myn br[o]þer sworn
                                
                                  To forthere me as I haue told be-forn
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                                  ffor which þou art boundyn as a knyȝt
                                
                                  To helpyn me ȝif it leye in þy myȝt
                                
                                  Or elle art þou fals I dare wel seyn
                                
                                  This arcite ful proudely spak a-geyn
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                                  Þou schat quod he be raþere fals than I
                                
                                  But þou art fals I telle þe vttyrly
                                
                                  ffor paramour I louede here ferst er þou
                                
                                  What wit þou seyn þou wyst no ȝit now
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                                  Wheþer sche be a woman or goddesse
                                
                                  Thyn is affeccioun of holynesse
                                
                                  And myn is loue as to creature
                                
                                  ffor whiche I telle þe myn auenture
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                                  As to myn cosyn & myn broþer sworn
                                
                                  I pose that þou louedist here be-forn
                                
                                  Wist þou not wel the olde clerkys sawe
                                
                                  That ho schal ȝeue a louere ony lawe
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                                  Loue is a grettere lawe be myn pan
                                
                                  Than may ben ȝouyn to ony erthely man
                                
                                  And þerfore posityf lawe & swich decree
                                
                                  Is brokyn alday for loue in eche degree
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                                  A man mote nedis loue maugre in hese hed [[See V. 51.]] 
                                
                                  He may not flen þat þogh he schulde be ded
                                
                                  Al be sche mayde or wedew or elle wif
                                
                                  And it is not likly al thyn lyf [[See V. 45, 49.]] 
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                                  To stondyn in here grace no more schal I
                                
                                  ffarewel þou wist þyn seluyn verayly
                                
                                  That þou & I ben dampned to presoun
                                
                                  Perpetuelly vs geynyth no raunsun
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                                  We stryue as dede the houndis for the bon

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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 34
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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