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

                                
                                  ¶ The god of loue a benedicite
                                
                                  How mighty and how gret a lord is he
                                
                                  Aȝeins his might þer gayneþ non obstacles
                                
                                  He may be cleped a god of his miracles
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                                  ffor he can maken at his owne gise
                                
                                  Of euerich herte as þat him list deuise
                                
                                  lo her þis arcite and þis Palamon
                                
                                  That quytly were out of my prisoun
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                                  And might haue lyued in Thebes rially
                                
                                  And witen I am here mortel enemy
                                
                                  And þat here deþ lith in my might also /
                                
                                  And ȝit haþ loue maugre here yghen tuo
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                                  Brought hem hider boþe for to deye
                                
                                  Now lokeþ is not þat an heih folye [folio 26a] 
                                
                                  ¶ Who may ben a fool but if he loue
                                
                                  Byhold for goddes sake þat sitteþ aboue
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                                  See how þai bleede be þai not wel arrayed
                                
                                  Thus haþ hire lord þe god of loue y-paiȝed
                                
                                  Hire wages and hire fees for hire seruise
                                
                                  And ȝit þei wenen for to ben ful wise
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                                  That seruen loue for aught þat may bifall
                                
                                  But þis is ȝet þe beste game of all
                                
                                  That sche for wham þei haue þis iolyte
                                
                                  Can hem þerfore as moche thank as me
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                                  Sche woot na more of all þis hoote fare
                                
                                  By god þan woot a Cockow of an hare
                                
                                  But al moot ben assayed hoot and colde
                                
                                  A man moot ben a fool or ȝong or olde
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                                  I wot it by my self ful yore agon
                                
                                  ffor in my tyme a seruant was I on
                                
                                  And þerfore syn I knowe of loues peyne
                                
                                  And woot how sore it can a man distreyne
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                                  As he þat hath ben caught often in his laas
                                
                                  I you forȝiue al holly þis trespas
                                
                                  At þe requeste of þe queen þat kneeleþ heere
                                
                                  And eek of Emelye my soster deere

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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 52
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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