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

                                
                                  Which þat þou seist I haue maad to þe /
                                
                                  What verray fool þink weel þat loue is fre
                                
                                  And I wol loue hir maugre al þy might
                                
                                  But for as moche þou art a worþy knight
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                                  And willest to derreyne hir by batayle
                                
                                  Haue her my trouþe to morwe I wol nought fayle
                                
                                  Wiþouten wityng of eny oþer wight
                                
                                  That heer I wol be founden as a knight
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                                  And bringen herneys right ynough for þe
                                
                                  And chese þe beste and lef þe worste for me
                                
                                  And mete and drynk þis night wol y bringe
                                
                                  ynough for þe and cloþes for þi beddynge
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                                  And if so be þat þou my lady wynne
                                
                                  And sle me in þis woode þer I am Inne [folio 23b] 
                                
                                  Thou mayst wel haue þy lady as for me
                                
                                  This Palamon answerd I graunt it þe
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                                  And þus þei ben departed til a morwe
                                
                                  Whan ech of hem hadde leyd his feiþ to borwe
                                
                                  Occupied out of alle charite
                                
                                  O regne þat wolde no felawe haue with þe
                                  Line 1624 
                                
                                  fful soþ is seid þat loue ne lorschipe
                                
                                  Wol not his þankes haue no felaschipe
                                
                                  We fynde þat of arcite and of Palamon
                                
                                  Arcite is riden anon in to þe toun
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                                  And on the morwe er it were dayes light
                                
                                  fful priuely tuo herneys haþ he dight
                                
                                  Boþe sufficant and meete to darreyne
                                
                                  The batail in þe feld bitwix hem tweyne
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                                  And on his hors allone as he was borne
                                
                                  He carieth al his harneys him biforne
                                
                                  And in þe groue at tyme and place y-set
                                
                                  This arcite and þis Palamon ben mette
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                                  To changen gan þe colour in hire face
                                
                                  Right as þe hunters in þe Reigne of trace
                                
                                  That stondeþ atte gappe with a spere
                                
                                  Whan hunted is þe leoun or þe bere

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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 47
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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