The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                  
                                    Wiþ-owten doute it maie stonden soo
                                  
                                    The ansewere of þis lette .I. to dyuines
                                  
                                    Bot wele .I. wote þat in þis werlde grete peine es
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                                    Alas .I. see a serpent or a þef
                                  
                                    That mony a trewman haþ done meschief
                                  
                                    Gone att his large and where him list maie turne
                                  
                                    Bot .I. most be in prison þoruhe Saturne
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                                    An eke þoruhe Iuno Ialous and eke wode
                                  
                                    That haþe destruyde nyhe al þe blode
                                  
                                    Of Thebes wiþ his waste walles wide
                                  
                                    And venus flieþ me on þat oþere side
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                                    ffor Ialousie and fere of him Arcite ["paurosa gelosia" V. 2] 
                                  
                                    ¶ Nowe wil .I. stinte of Palamon a lite
                                  
                                    And lat him in his prisone stille dwelle
                                  
                                    And of Arcite forþe .I. will ȝowe telle
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                                    The somer passeþ and þe nihtes longe
                                  
                                    Encreseth dowble wise þe peynes stronge
                                  
                                    Boþe of þe louere and þe prisonere
                                  
                                    .I. note wiche haþe þe wofuller myster
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                                    ffor schortelye for to seine þis Palamon
                                  
                                    Perpetuely is dampned to prison
                                  
                                    In chynes and fettres to þe dede
                                  
                                    And Arcit is ercilede vpon his hede
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                                    ffor euere more as oute of þat Cuntre
                                  
                                    Ne neuere ne schal his lady see.
                                  
                                    ¶ Ȝowe louiers .I. aske þis questiōne [folio 18a] 
                                  
                                    Who haþ þe wers Arcite or Palamōne
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                                    The one maie se his lady . daie be daie
                                  
                                    Bot in prison he most dwel alweie
                                  
                                    The toþere where him liste Maie ride or goo
                                  
                                    Bote sene his lady schal he neuer moo
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                                    Nowe demeþ as ȝowe liste þat ȝe canne
                                  
                                    ffor .I. wil tel forþe as .I. be-ganne [[No gap in the MS.]]

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 39
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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