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

                                
                                  The god of loue a benedicite
                                
                                  How myghti & how gret a lord is he
                                
                                  A-ȝens hese myȝt þere geynyth none obstakell
                                
                                  He may be clepid a god for hese myrakell
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                                  ffor he can makyn at hese owene gyse
                                
                                  Of eueryche herte as he leste deuyse
                                
                                  Lo here þis arcite & þis Palamoun
                                
                                  That quytely weryn out of presoun
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                                  And myȝtyn a leuyd in thebes really [folio 156b] 
                                
                                  And wetyn I am here mortal enemy
                                
                                  And that here deth lyth in myn myȝt also
                                
                                  And ȝit hath loue maugry here eyȝyn two
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                                  Brought hem hedyr bothe for to deye
                                
                                  Now lokith is not this an hey folye
                                
                                  Who may ben a fol but ȝif he loue
                                
                                  Behold for godis sake that sit a-boue
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                                  Se how þey blede be þey not wel arayed
                                
                                  Thus hath here lord the god of loue hem payed
                                
                                  Here wagis & here feis for here seruyse
                                
                                  And ȝit þey wene for to ben ful wyse
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                                  That seynth loue for ouȝt that may be-falle
                                
                                  But þis is ȝit the beste gise of alle
                                
                                  That sen for whom they han this iolyte
                                
                                  Kan hem therfore as meche thank as me
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                                  Sche wot no more of al this hote fare
                                
                                  By god than wot a kokkow or an hare
                                
                                  But al mote ben asayed hot or cold
                                
                                  A man mot nede ben a fol or ȝong or old [V. 92.] 
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                                  I wote it be myn self ful ȝore agon
                                
                                  ffor in myn tyme a seruaunt was I on
                                
                                  And þerfore syn I knowe of loue peyne
                                
                                  And wot how sore it can a man distreyne
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                                  As he that hath ofte be cauȝt in his las
                                
                                  I ȝow for-ȝeue al holy this trespas [V. 92-3.] 
                                
                                  At request of the quen that knelith here
                                
                                  And ek of emalye myn systir dere

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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 52
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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