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

                                
                                  ¶ By proces and of lengthe of certeyn ȝeeres
                                
                                  Al stynt is þe mournyng and þe teeres
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                                  Of grekes by on general assent
                                
                                  Than semede þer was a parlement
                                
                                  At atthenes vpon a certein point and caas
                                
                                  Among þe whiche poyntes y-spoken was
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                                  To haue with certain contrees alliance
                                
                                  And haue fully of Thebane obeissance
                                
                                  ffor which þis noble Theseus anon
                                
                                  leet seende after gentil Palamon
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                                  vnwist of him what was þe cause and why
                                
                                  But in his blake cloþes sorwfully
                                
                                  he com at his comandement in hye
                                
                                  Tho sente Theseus for Emelye
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                                  Whan þey were sette and huyst was in þe place /
                                
                                  An Theseus abyden haþ a space
                                
                                  Or eny word com fro his wise breste
                                
                                  his eyȝen sette he þer as was his leste /
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                                  And with a sad visage he siked stille /
                                
                                  And after þat right þus he seyde his wille [folio 42b] 
                                
                                  The ferste maner of þe cause aboue
                                
                                  Whan he ferst maade þe faire cheine of loue
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                                  Gret was þeffect and heigh was his entente
                                
                                  Wel wist he why and what þer of he mente
                                
                                  ffor with þat faire cheyne of loue he bonde
                                
                                  The fyr. þe aier. the water and þe londe
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                                  In certeyn boundes þat þei may not flee /
                                
                                  That same prince and þat same mouer quod he
                                
                                  haþ stablissed in þis wrecchede world a-doun
                                
                                  Certeine daies and dominacioun
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                                  To all þat beþ engendred in þis place
                                
                                  Ouer þe whiche day þay may not pace
                                
                                  Alle mowe þey yet þo dayes abregge
                                
                                  Ther needeþ nought non auctorite to legge
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                                  ffor it is proeued by experience
                                
                                  But þat me list to declaren my sentence /

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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 85
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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