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

                                
                                  Arayed was þis god as he tok kep
                                
                                  As he was whan that Argus tok hese slep
                                
                                  And seyde hym thus to Athenys schat þou wynde
                                
                                  There is the schapyn of thi wo an ende
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                                  And with that word Arcyte wok & styrte
                                
                                  Now trewely how sore that me smerte
                                
                                  Quod he tathenys / rygh now wele I fare
                                
                                  Ne for the dred of deth schal I not spare
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                                  To se myn lady that I loue & serue [folio 151a] 
                                
                                  In here presence I rekke not to sterue
                                
                                  And with that word he cauȝte a gret myrour
                                
                                  And saw that schaunged was al hese colour
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                                  And say hese vesage al in anoþer kynde
                                
                                  And ryȝt a-non It ran hym in hese mynde [IV. 38.] 
                                
                                  That sithe hese face was so disfyguryd
                                
                                  Of maledye whiche he hadde endured
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                                  He myȝte wel ȝif that he bar hym lowe
                                
                                  Leuyn in athenys euere more onknowe
                                
                                  And sen hese lady wel ney day be day
                                
                                  And ryȝt a-non he chaungede hese aray
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                                  And cladde hym as a pore labourer [pover valletto, IV. 22.] 
                                
                                  And al alone saue only a squyer [umil garzone, IV. 22.] 
                                
                                  That knew hese preuyteis & al hese cas [povero valletto, IV. 40.] 
                                
                                  Whiche was disgised porely as he was
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                                  Tatthenys is he gon þe nexte way
                                
                                  And to the court he wente vp-on a day
                                
                                  And at the gate he proferyth hese seruyse
                                
                                  To drogge & drawe what so men wolde deuyse
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                                  And schortly of this mater for to seyn
                                
                                  He fil in offys with a chaumbyrleyn
                                
                                  The whiche that dwellynge was with emalye
                                
                                  ffor he was wys & coude sone aspie
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                                  Of euery seruaunt whiche that seruyth here
                                
                                  Wel coude he hewyn wode & watyr bere
                                
                                  ffor he was ȝong & myȝty for the nonys
                                
                                  And þerto he was long & big of bonys

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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 41
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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