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

                                
                                  And heer agayns no creature on lyue
                                
                                  Of no degree auailleþ for to stryue
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                                  Thanne is it wisdom as it þenkeþ me
                                
                                  To make vertue of necessite /
                                
                                  And take it wel þat we may not eschewe
                                
                                  And nameliche þat to vs alle is dewe
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                                  . . . . . [[No gap: line left out.]] 
                                
                                  And rebell is to him þat all may gye
                                
                                  And certeinly a man haþ most honour
                                
                                  To deyen in his excellence and flour
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                                  Whan he is siker of his goode name
                                
                                  Than haþ he doon his freendes ne him no schame
                                
                                  And gladder oughte his frendes ben of his deþ
                                
                                  Whan wiþ honour y-yolden is vp þe breþ
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                                  Than whan his name apalled is for age
                                
                                  ffor al forgeten is his vessellage
                                
                                  Than is the beste as for a worþy fame
                                
                                  To deyen whan he is best of name
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                                  The contrarie of alle þis is wilfulnesse
                                
                                  Why grucchen we why haue we heuynesse
                                
                                  That goode Arcite of Chiuallerie þe flour [folio 43b] 
                                
                                  Departed is wiþ duete and with honour
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                                  Out of þis foule prison of þis lyf
                                
                                  Why gruccheþ heere his cosyn and his wyf
                                
                                  Of his welfare þat loueþ him so wel
                                
                                  Kan he hem þank nay god woot neuer a deel
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                                  That boþen his soule and eek him offende /
                                
                                  And yet þei mowe her lustes nought amende
                                
                                  What may conclude of þis longe serie
                                
                                  But after wo I rede vs to be merye
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                                  And þanken Iupiter of all his grace
                                
                                  And er we departen from þis place
                                
                                  I rede we make of oure sorwes tuo
                                
                                  O parfyt ioye lastyng euer mo
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                                  And lokeþ now where most sorwe is Inne
                                
                                  Ther wol I ferst amenden and bygynne

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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 87
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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