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

                                  
                                    Suster quod he þis is my ful assent
                                  
                                    Wiþ all þauys heere of my parlement /
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                                    That gentil Palamon ȝoure oughne knight
                                  
                                    That serueth ȝou with wille and herte and might /
                                  
                                    And euer haþ don siþen ye ferst him knewe
                                  
                                    That ȝe schull of ȝour grace vpon him rewe
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                                    And taken him for housbond and for lord
                                  
                                    Lene me your hond for þis is oure acord
                                  
                                    Lat see now of your wommanly pite
                                  
                                    he is a kinges broþer sone parde
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                                    And þough he were a pore Bachiller
                                  
                                    Syn he haþ serued you so many a yeer
                                  
                                    And had for ȝou so gret aduersite /
                                  
                                    It moste ben considered leeueþ me
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                                    ffor gentil mercy oughte to passen right
                                  
                                    Than seide he þus to Palamon þe knight
                                  
                                    I trowe þer needeþ litel sermonyng
                                  
                                    To make you assented to þis þing
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                                    Come nere and take ȝoure lady by þe hond
                                  
                                    Bitwixen hem was maad anon þe bond
                                  
                                    That highte matrimoigne or mariage [folio 44a] 
                                  
                                    By all þe counsail and þe baronage
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                                    And þus wiþ alle blisse and melodye
                                  
                                    Haþ Palamon y-wedded Emelye
                                  
                                    And god þat al þis world haþ wrought
                                  
                                    Sende him his loue þat haþ it deere bought
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                                    ffor now is Palamon in alle wele
                                  
                                    Lyuyng in blisse in richesse and in hele
                                  
                                    And Emely him loueth so tendrely
                                  
                                    And he hir serueþ so gentilly
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                                    That was þer no word hem betweene /
                                  
                                    Of Ialousie or ony oþer teene
                                  
                                    Thus endeth Palamon and Emelye /
                                  
                                    And god saue all þis faire companye

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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 88
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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