No Fear Literature: The Canterbury Tales: The Knight’s Tale, Part Two Page 12

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Who loketh lightly now but Palamoun? Who springeth up for Ioye but Arcite? Who couthe telle, or who couthe it endyte, The Ioye that is maked in the place Whan Theseus hath doon so fair a grace? But doun on knees wente every maner wight, And thanked him with al her herte and might, And namely the Thebans ofte sythe. And thus with good hope and with herte blythe They take hir leve, and hom-ward gonne they ryde To Thebes, with his olde walles wyde.	Who loketh lightly now but Palamoun? Who springeth up for Ioye but Arcite? Who couthe telle, or who couthe it endyte, The Ioye that is maked in the place Whan Theseus hath doon so fair a grace? But doun on knees wente every maner wight, And thanked him with al her herte and might, And namely the Thebans ofte sythe. And thus with good hope and with herte blythe They take hir leve, and hom-ward gonne they ryde To Thebes, with his olde walles wyde.
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Who loketh lightly now but Palamoun? Who springeth up for Ioye but Arcite? Who couthe telle, or who couthe it endyte, The Ioye that is maked in the place Whan Theseus hath doon so fair a grace? But doun on knees wente every maner wight, And thanked him with al her herte and might, And namely the Thebans ofte sythe. And thus with good hope and with herte blythe They take hir leve, and hom-ward gonne they ryde To Thebes, with his olde walles wyde.	Who loketh lightly now but Palamoun? Who springeth up for Ioye but Arcite? Who couthe telle, or who couthe it endyte, The Ioye that is maked in the place Whan Theseus hath doon so fair a grace? But doun on knees wente every maner wight, And thanked him with al her herte and might, And namely the Thebans ofte sythe. And thus with good hope and with herte blythe They take hir leve, and hom-ward gonne they ryde To Thebes, with his olde walles wyde.
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