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

                                
                                  Now vp now doun as boket in a welle
                                
                                  Ryȝt as the fryday sothly for to telle
                                
                                  Now it schynyth now it reynyth faste
                                
                                  Ryȝt so can gery venus ouercaste
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                                  The hertys of here folk ryȝt as here ȝe [[ȝe ma: later]]  may
                                
                                  Is gerful ryȝt so chaungith sche aray
                                
                                  Selde is the fryday al the wouke lyk
                                
                                  Whanne that Arcyte hadde sunge he gan to sik
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                                  And sette hym doun with-outyn ony more [folio 153a] 
                                
                                  Allas quod he that day þat I was bore
                                
                                  How longe Iuno thorw þyn crewelte
                                
                                  Wiltow werreyen Thebes the sete
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                                  Allas I-brouȝt is to confusioun [See IV. 13, 14.] 
                                
                                  The blod royal of Cadme & amphioun
                                
                                  Of Cadme wich þat was þe ferste man [.i. edificare] 
                                
                                  That Thebes beelte [[ee: later]]  / or fyrst þe toun began
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                                  And of the Sete fyrst was crounnede kyng
                                
                                  Of hese lynage was I / and hese of-spryng
                                
                                  By verray lyne / as of the stok royal [See IV. 31.] 
                                
                                  And now I am so kaytif & so thral
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                                  That he that is myn mortal enemy [See IV. 85.] 
                                
                                  I serue hym as hese squyer purely
                                
                                  And ȝit doth Iuno me more schame
                                
                                  ffor I dare not beknowe myn owene name
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                                  There as I was wone to hyȝte arcyte [See IV. 84.] 
                                
                                  Now highte I philostrate not worth a myȝte [[Penteo, IV. 84.]] 
                                
                                  Allas þou felle Mars allas Iuno [See IV. 17.] 
                                
                                  Thus hath ȝoure yre oure lynege fordo
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                                  Saue only me wrechede Palamoun
                                
                                  That Thesyus marteryth in presoun
                                
                                  And oueral þis to slen me vttyrly [IV. 82.] 
                                
                                  Loue hath hese fery darte so brennyngely
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                                  I-stekid þour myn trewe carful herte
                                
                                  That schapyn was myn deþ er þan myn scherte
                                
                                  Ȝe slen me with ȝoure eyen emelye
                                
                                  Ȝe ben the cause wherfore that I deye

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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 45
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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