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

                                
                                  To don that ony with can hym deuyse
                                
                                  A ȝer or too he was in þis seruyse
                                
                                  Page of the chaumbere of emale þe bryȝt
                                
                                  And philostrate he seyde þat he hyȝt [[Penteo IV. 3, &c.]] 
                                  Line 1428 
                                
                                  But half so wel be-louyd a man as he
                                
                                  Ne was there neuer in court of hese degre
                                
                                  He was so Ientyl of condicioun
                                
                                  That þour-out al the court was hese renoun
                                  Line 1432 
                                
                                  They seydyn that it were a charite [folio 151b] 
                                
                                  That Thesyus wolde enhaunsyn hese degre
                                
                                  And puttyn hym in worschepful seruyse
                                
                                  There that he myȝte hese vertue excercise
                                  Line 1436 
                                
                                  And þus with-inne a while his name is spronge [IV. 59.] 
                                
                                  Bothe of hese dedis & hese goode tunge
                                
                                  That Thesius hath takyn hym so ner
                                
                                  That of hese chaumbere he made hym a squyer
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                                  And ȝaf hym gold to meyntene his degre
                                
                                  And ek men brouȝtyn hym out of hese cuntre
                                
                                  ffrom ȝer to ȝer ful priuyly hese rente
                                
                                  But onestly & slyly he it spente
                                  Line 1444 
                                
                                  That no man wonderede how þat he it hadde
                                
                                  And thre ȝer in this wise his lyf he ladde
                                
                                  And bar hym so in pes & ek in werre
                                
                                  Ther was no man that thesyus hath derre [IV. 59.] 
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                                  And in this blisse lete I now arcite
                                
                                  And speke I wele of palamoun a lite
                                
                                  In derknesse & horrible & strong prisoun [V. 1.] 
                                
                                  This seuene ȝer hath setyn palamoun
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                                  ffor-pynyd what for wo & for distresse
                                
                                  Who feleth doubble sorwe & heuynesse [V. 3.] 
                                
                                  But palamoun þat loue distreynyth so
                                
                                  That wod of hese wit he goth for wo
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                                  And ek þerto he is a presounner
                                
                                  Perpetuelly not only for a ȝer
                                
                                  Who coude ryme in englys properly
                                
                                  His marterdam for sothe it am [[? MS.]]  not I

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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 42
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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