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

                                
                                  Of all þe remanant / of myn oþer care
                                
                                  Ne sette I nought þe montance of a tare
                                
                                  So þat I coude don aught to ȝoure plesance
                                
                                  And with þat word he fel doun in a traunce
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                                  A long tyme and aftirward he vpsterte
                                
                                  This Palamon þat þought þat þorugh his herte
                                
                                  he felte a cold swerd sodeinliche glyde
                                
                                  ffor yre he quok no lenger wolde he byde
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                                  And whan þat he had herd Arcites tale
                                
                                  As he were wood with face deed and pale
                                
                                  he sterte him vp out of þe buskes þikke
                                
                                  And seide arcite false traytour wikke
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                                  Now art þou hent þat louest my lady so
                                
                                  ffor whom þat I haue al þis peyne and wo [folio 23a] 
                                
                                  And art my blood and to my counseil sworn
                                
                                  As I ful ofte haue told þe heer biforn
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                                  And hast be-iaped here duk Theseus /
                                
                                  And falsly chaunged hast þi name þus
                                
                                  I wol be ded or elles þou schalt dye
                                
                                  Thou schalt not loue my lady Emelye
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                                  But I wol loue hire oonly and nomo
                                
                                  ffor I am Palamon þi mortel foo
                                
                                  And þough þat I no wepene haue in þis place
                                
                                  But out of prisoun am astert by grace
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                                  I drede nought þat ouþer þou schalt die
                                
                                  Or þou ne schalt not louen Emelye
                                
                                  Chees which þou wilt or þou schalt not asterte
                                
                                  This arcite with ful despitous herte
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                                  When he him knew and hadde his tale herde
                                
                                  As fers as a leon pulled out a swerde
                                
                                  And seide þus by god þa[t] sitteþ aboue
                                
                                  Nere it were þat þou art sike and wood for loue
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                                  And eek þat þou no wepne hast in þis place /
                                
                                  Thou schuldest neuer out of þis groue pace
                                
                                  That þou ne schuldest deyen of myn honde
                                
                                  ffor I diffie þe sewrte and þe bonde

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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 46
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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