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

                                
                                  Therfore I passe as lyȝtely as I may
                                
                                  It fel that in the seuynte ȝer In may
                                
                                  The thredde nyȝt as olde bokys seyn
                                
                                  That al this story tellyn more & pleyn
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                                  Were it by auenture or destene
                                
                                  As whan a þyng is schapyn it schal be
                                
                                  That sone aftyr the mydnyȝt palamoun [V. 25-7.] 
                                
                                  Be helpyng of a frend brak hese presoun
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                                  And fleth the cete faste as he may go [folio 152a] 
                                
                                  ffor he hadde ȝouyn hese gayler dronkyn so [V. 24.] 
                                
                                  Of a clarre mad of certeyn wyn
                                
                                  With nertotikes & opie of Thebes fyn
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                                  That al that nyȝt though þat men wolde hym schake
                                
                                  The gayler slep he myȝte not wake
                                
                                  And þus he fleth as faste as euere he may
                                
                                  The nyȝt was schort & faste by the day
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                                  That nedis cost / he muste hym seluyn hide
                                
                                  And tyl a groue faste þere besyde [V. 33.] 
                                
                                  With dredful fot þanne stalkyth palamoun
                                
                                  ffor schortely þis was hese opynnyoun
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                                  That in þat groue he muste hym hide alday
                                
                                  And in the nyȝt þanne wolde he take his way
                                
                                  To thebes-ward hese frendis for to preye
                                
                                  On Thesyus to helpe hym for to werye
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                                  And schortly oþer he wolde lese [[? MS. lefe]]  hese lyf
                                
                                  Or wynnyn emelye vn-to hese wyf
                                
                                  This is theffect & hese entente pleyn
                                
                                  Now wele I turne vn-to Arcite ageyn
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                                  That lityl wiste how nygh that was hese care
                                
                                  Tyl þat fortune hadde brought hym in þat snare
                                
                                  The besye larke messenger of the day
                                
                                  Salueth in here song the morwe gray
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                                  And fery phebus ryseth vp so bryght
                                
                                  That al the oryent laugheeth of þe lyght
                                
                                  And with hese stremys dreyeth in þe greuys
                                
                                  The syluere dropis hangynge in the leuys

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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 43
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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