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

                                
                                  Wiche þat þou seyst þat I haue mad to þe
                                
                                  What veray fol þink wel that loue is fre [V. 51.] 
                                
                                  And I wele loue here maugre al þyn myȝt
                                
                                  But for as meche þou art a worthy knyȝt
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                                  And wilnyst to darrayne here be batayle
                                
                                  Haue here myn trouthe to-morwe I nyl not fayle
                                
                                  With-oute wetynge of ony oþer whight
                                
                                  That here I wele be foundyn as a knyght
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                                  And bryngyn harneys ryȝt I-now for the [folio 154a] 
                                
                                  And ches the best & lef the werste to me
                                
                                  And mete and drynk þis nyȝt wele I brynge
                                
                                  I-nough for þe & clothis for þyn beddynge
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                                  And ȝif so be þat þou myn lady wynne
                                
                                  And sle me in þis wode þere I am inne
                                
                                  þou mayst wel han þyn lady as for me
                                
                                  This palamoun answerde I graunte it the
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                                  And þus þey be toparted til a morwe
                                
                                  Whan eche of hem hadde leyd hese feyth to borwe
                                
                                  O cupide out of alle charite
                                
                                  O regne that wolde no felawe han with the
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                                  fful soth is it seyd that loue and lordschep [V. 13.] 
                                
                                  Wolde not hese þankys han no felauschep
                                
                                  Wel fyndy þat arcite and palamoun
                                
                                  Arcite is rydyn anon in to þe toun
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                                  And on þe morwyn er it were day lyȝt
                                
                                  fful fynly to harneys haþ he dyȝt
                                
                                  Bothe sufficiaunt & mete to darreeyne
                                
                                  The batayle in the feld be-tweixe hem tweyne
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                                  And on hese horse alone as he was born
                                
                                  He caryeth al þis harneys hym be-forn
                                
                                  And in the groue at tyme & place I-set
                                
                                  This arcite & þis palamo[n] ben met
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                                  To chaunge gan the colour in here face
                                
                                  Rygh as the hunterys in the regne of trace [VII. 106.] 
                                
                                  That stondiþ at the gap with a spere
                                
                                  Whan huntede is the lyoun or the bere

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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 47
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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