The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  To speken of a seruant propurly
                                
                                  With circumstances alle trewely
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                                  That is to sein trouþe honour and knighthede
                                
                                  Wisdom humblesse estat and heigh kynrede
                                
                                  ffredom and al þat longeþ to þat art
                                
                                  So Iuppiter haue of my soule parte
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                                  As in þis worlde right now knowe I non
                                
                                  So worþi to be loued as Palamon
                                
                                  That serueþ yow and wil don all his lijf
                                
                                  And if þat euere ȝe schal be a wijf
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                                  fforyete nat Palamon the gentilman
                                
                                  And with þat word his speche faile gan
                                
                                  ffor from his feet vnto his brest was come
                                
                                  The colde of deþ þat hadde him ouercome /
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                                  And yet more ouer for in his armes tuo
                                
                                  The vital strengþe is lost and all ago
                                
                                  Oonly þe intellecte wiþoute more
                                
                                  That dwelled in his herte sik and sore /
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                                  Gan faillen whan þe herte felte deþ
                                
                                  Busked his yhen tuo and failed breþ [folio 40a] 
                                
                                  But on his lady ȝet cast he his yhe
                                
                                  His laste word was mercy Emelye
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                                  his spirit changed hous and wente þere
                                
                                  As I cam neuer I can nought telle where
                                
                                  Therfore I stynte I am no dyuinistre
                                
                                  Of soules fynde I nat in þat registre
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                                  Ne me ne list þilke opinions to telle
                                
                                  Of hem þough þat þey writen wher þei duelle
                                
                                  Arcite is cold þat mars his soule gye
                                
                                  Now wol I speke forth of Emelye
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                                  Schrighte Emelye and houleþ Palamon
                                
                                  And Theseus his suster took anoon
                                
                                  Swounyng and bar hire fro þe cors away
                                
                                  What helpeþ it to tarien forþ þe day
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                                  To tellen how sche weepe boþe eue and morwe
                                
                                  ffor in such caas wommen haue such sorwe

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 80
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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