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

                                
                                  They fought alday and ȝet here part was non
                                
                                  Ther com a kyte whil þat þei were so wroþe
                                
                                  That bar a way þe bon bytwixe hem boþe
                                  Line 1180 
                                
                                  Ak þerfore atte kinges court my broþer
                                
                                  Ech man for him self þer is non oþer
                                
                                  Loue if þou list for I loue and ay schal
                                
                                  A soothly leue broþer þis is al
                                  Line 1184 
                                
                                  Her in þis prison mote we endure
                                
                                  And euerich of vs take his auenture [folio 17b] 
                                
                                  Gret was þe strif and long bitwix hem tweye
                                
                                  If þat I hadde leyser for to seie /
                                  Line 1188 
                                
                                  But to þis effect it happed on a day
                                
                                  To telle it ȝou as schortly as I may
                                
                                  A worþi duk þat highte Perotheus
                                
                                  That felawe was vnto duk Theseus
                                  Line 1192 
                                
                                  Syn þilke day þat þai were children lite
                                
                                  Was come to Athenes his felawe to visite
                                
                                  and for to pleye as he was wont to do
                                
                                  ffor in þis world he loued noman so
                                  Line 1196 
                                
                                  And he loued him als tendurly agayn
                                
                                  So wel þei loued as olde bokes sayn
                                
                                  That whan þat oon was ded soþly to telle /
                                
                                  his felaw went and sought him doun in helle
                                  Line 1200 
                                
                                  But of þat story list me nought to write
                                
                                  Duk Perotheus louede wel arcite
                                
                                  And had him knowe at Thebes þer be yere
                                
                                  And finally at request and preyere
                                  Line 1204 
                                
                                  Of Perotheus wiþoute ony Raunson
                                
                                  Duk Theseus him leet out of prison
                                
                                  ffrely to gon wher þat him list ouer al
                                
                                  In such a gise as I ȝou telle schal
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                                  This was þe forward pleinly for tendite /
                                
                                  Bitwixe Theseus and him Arcite
                                
                                  That if so were þat arcite were founde /
                                
                                  Euer in his lif by day or night or stounde
                                  Line 1212 
                                
                                  In eny contre of þis Theseus

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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 35
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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