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

                                
                                  That if yow list I schal wel haue my loue
                                
                                  Thy temple wil I worschipe euermo
                                
                                  An on þin auter wher I ride or go
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                                  I wil don sacrifice and feeres beete
                                
                                  And if ȝe wol not so my lady sweete
                                
                                  Than pray I þe to morwe with a spere
                                
                                  þat arcite me þurgh þe herte bere
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                                  Than rekke I nat whan I haue lost my lyf
                                
                                  þough þat arcite wynne hir to his wyf
                                
                                  This is þeffect and ende of my preyere
                                
                                  yif me my loue þou blisful lady deere
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                                  Whan þe orison was don of Palamon
                                
                                  his sacrifise he dide and þat anon
                                
                                  fful pitously wiþ alle circumstances
                                
                                  Al telle I not as now his obseruances
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                                  But atte laste þe Statue of Venus schook
                                
                                  And made a signe wherby þat he took [folio 32b] 
                                
                                  That his prayer accepted was þat day
                                
                                  ffor þough þe signe schewed a delay
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                                  Ȝit wist he weel þat graunted was his boone
                                
                                  And with glad herte he went him home ful soone
                                
                                  The þridde hour inequal þat Palamon
                                
                                  Bigan to venus temple for to gon
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                                  vp roos þe sonne and vp roos Emelye
                                
                                  And to þe temple of Diane gan hye
                                
                                  Hir maydenes þat þider with hir ladde
                                
                                  fful redily with hem þe fyr þey hadde
                                  Line 2276 
                                
                                  Thencens þe cloþes and þe remenant all
                                
                                  That to þe sacrifice longen schall
                                
                                  The hornes full of methe as was þe gise
                                
                                  Ther lacked nat to do hir sacrifise
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                                  Smokyng þe temple ful of cloþes faire
                                
                                  This Emelye with herte debonaire
                                
                                  Hire body [wessh] with þe water of a welle
                                
                                  But how sche dide hire rite I dar not telle
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                                  But it be eny þing in general

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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 65
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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