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

                                
                                  Ther fore I passe als lightly as I may
                                
                                  ¶ It felle þat in þe seuenþe ȝer of may
                                
                                  The þridde night as olde bokes sein /
                                
                                  That als þis storie telleþ more plein
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                                  Were it by auenture or destinee
                                
                                  As whan a þing is schape it schal be
                                
                                  That sone after þe mydnyght Palamon
                                
                                  By helpyng of a frende brak prison
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                                  And fleþ þe cite faste as he may goo
                                
                                  ffor hadde yeue his gailler drunke soo
                                
                                  Of a clarre maad of a certeyn wyn
                                
                                  With nercotiks and opie of Thebes fyn
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                                  That al þat night þough þat men wolde him schake
                                
                                  Tbe gailler sleep he mighte not awake [folio 21b] 
                                
                                  And þus he fleeth as fast as euer he may
                                
                                  The night was schort and faste by þe day
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                                  That needes cost he most himseluen hyde
                                
                                  And til a groue faste þer bisyde
                                
                                  With dredful foot þan stalkeþ Palamon
                                
                                  ffor schortly þis was his opinion
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                                  That in þat groue he wolde him hide alday
                                
                                  And in þe night þan wolde he take his way
                                
                                  To Thebes-ward his frendes for to pray
                                
                                  On Theseus to helpe him to werray
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                                  And schortly ouþer he wolde leese his lif
                                
                                  Or wynnen Emely to his louely wif /
                                
                                  This is þeffecte and his entente playn
                                
                                  ¶ Now wol I torne vnto arcite agayn
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                                  That litel wiste how neih þat was his care
                                
                                  Til þat fortune hadde kaught him in his snare
                                
                                  The besy larke messanger of day
                                
                                  Salueth in hir song þe morwe gray
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                                  And fyry phebus riseþ vp so bright
                                
                                  That al þe orient laugheth of þe light
                                
                                  And with his streemes drieth in þe greues
                                
                                  The seluir dropes hangyng in þe leeues

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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 43
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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