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

                                
                                  And in the rescous of this palamoun
                                
                                  The stronge kyng lygurge is born adoun
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                                  And kyng Emetrius [al] for hese strenthe
                                
                                  Is born out of hese sadil a swerdis lenthe
                                
                                  So hitte hym palamoun or he were take
                                
                                  But al for nought he was brought to the stake
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                                  Hese hardy herte myghte hym helpe nought
                                
                                  He muste abyde whan that he was caught
                                
                                  By forse & ek by compocycioun
                                
                                  Who sorwith now but woful palamoun [VIII. 123] 
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                                  That may [[altered from mo]]  no more gon ageyn to fyghte
                                
                                  And whan that Thesius hadde seyn that syghte
                                
                                  Vn-to the folk that foughtyn thus echon
                                
                                  He cryede ho / no more for it is don
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                                  I wele be trewe iuge & no partye [folio 168b] 
                                
                                  Arcite of Thebes schal haue Emelye
                                
                                  That bi hese fortune hath here fayre wonne
                                
                                  A-non þere is a noyse of puple begunne
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                                  ffor ioye of this so loude & heye with al
                                
                                  It semede þat the lystis schulde fal
                                
                                  What can now fayre venus don aboue
                                
                                  What seyth sche now / what doth this quen of loue
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                                  But wepith so / for wantynge of here wille
                                
                                  Tyl þat here terys in the lystis fylle
                                
                                  Sche seyde I am a-schamyd duteles
                                
                                  Saturne seyde douȝtyr hold þyn pes
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                                  Mars hath his wille his knyght al hese bone
                                
                                  And be myn hed þou schat ben esed sone
                                
                                  The trumpis with the loude mestrelcye
                                
                                  The heroudis þat ful loude ȝelle & crye
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                                  Ben in here wele for ioye of daun Arcyte
                                
                                  But herkenyth me & styntyth now a lite
                                
                                  Which a merakele þere be-fel a-non
                                
                                  This ferse arcyte hath of hese helm I-don [VIII. 131.] 
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                                  An[d] on a courser for to schewe hese face
                                
                                  He prikyth endelong the same plase

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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 76
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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