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

                                
                                  Now vp now doun as boket in a welle
                                
                                  Right as þe friday soþly for to telle
                                
                                  Now it schineþ and now it reyneþ faste
                                
                                  Right so gan gery venus ouer caste
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                                  The hertes of hir folk right as hire day
                                
                                  Is geerful right so chaungeþ sche array
                                
                                  Seelde is þe fryday al þe wike y-like
                                
                                  ¶ Whan þat arcite hadde songe he gan to syke
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                                  And sette him doun wiþouten eny more
                                
                                  Allas quod he þat day þat I was bore
                                
                                  How longe Iuno þurgh þi cruelte
                                
                                  Wiltow werreien Thebes þe Cite
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                                  Allas y-brought is to confusion
                                
                                  The blood Roial of Cadme and Amphion [folio 22b] 
                                
                                  Of Cadmus which þat was þe ferste man
                                
                                  That Thebes bult or ferst þe toun bigan
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                                  And of þe cite first was crouned king
                                
                                  Of his lynage am I and his ofspring
                                
                                  By verray ligne as of þe stok roiall
                                
                                  And now I am so caytif and so þrall
                                  Line 1552 
                                
                                  That he þat is my mortel enemy
                                
                                  I serue him as his squier pouerly
                                
                                  And ȝit doþ me Iuno wel more schame
                                
                                  ffor I dar nought biknowe myn owne name
                                  Line 1556 
                                
                                  But þer as I was wont to hight arcite
                                
                                  Now highte I Philostrate nought worþ a myte
                                
                                  Allas þou felle mars allas þou Iuno
                                
                                  Thus haþ your ire oure lignage al fordo
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                                  Saf only me and wrecched Palamon
                                
                                  That Theseus martireþ in prison
                                
                                  And ouer al þis to slen me vtterly
                                
                                  loue haþ his faire dart so brennyngly.
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                                  y-stiked þurgh my trewe carful herte
                                
                                  That schapen was my deþ arst þan my scherte
                                
                                  ye sleen me with ȝour eyȝen emelye
                                
                                  Ȝe ben þe cause wher fore þat I dye

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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 45
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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