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

                                
                                  And hee were cauth it was acordit þus
                                
                                  That with a swerd he wolde lese his hed [III. 54.] 
                                
                                  Ther nas non oþer remedie ne red
                                  Line 1216 
                                
                                  But takyth his leue & homward he hym spedde [folio 148b] 
                                
                                  let hym be war his nekke lith to wedde
                                
                                  How gret a sorwe sufferith now arcyte
                                
                                  The deth he felyth thorgh his herte smyte
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                                  He wepith weyleth cryeþ pitously
                                
                                  To slen hym self he waytyth priuyly
                                
                                  He seyde allas that day that I was bore [[Gen. resembl. See III. 75, &c.]] 
                                
                                  Now is myn prisoun werse þan be-fore
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                                  Now is me schapyn eternally to dwelle
                                
                                  Not in purgatory but in helle
                                
                                  Allas that euere knew I perotheus
                                
                                  ffor elle hadde I dwellid with thesyus
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                                  I-fetered in his prisoun euere mo
                                
                                  Thanne hadde I ben in blysse & not in wo
                                
                                  Only the syȝthe of her whom that I serue
                                
                                  Though I neuere here grace may disserue
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                                  Wolde han suffysed ryȝt I-now for me
                                
                                  O dere cosyn palamoun quod he
                                
                                  This is the victorie of this auenture
                                
                                  fful blysful in prisoun mayst þow endure
                                  Line 1236 
                                
                                  In prysoun nay parde but in paradys
                                
                                  Wel hath fortune I-turnede the deys
                                
                                  That hast the syȝt of here & I the absens
                                
                                  ffor possible is syn þow hast here presens
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                                  And art a knyȝt a worthi & able
                                
                                  That by sum cas syn fortune is chaungable
                                
                                  Thow mayȝt to þyn desyr sumtyme atteyne
                                
                                  But I that am exiled & barayne
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                                  Of alle grace & in so gret dispeyr
                                
                                  That þere nys erthe watyr fyre ne eyr
                                
                                  Ne criatur that of hem makyd is
                                
                                  That may me helpyn or don comfort in this
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                                  Wel ouȝte I sterue in wanhope & distresse

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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 36
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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