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Anelida and Arcite.

(THE COMPLAINT ONLY.)

PHILLIPPS MS. 8299.

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ANELIDA AND ARCITE. PHILLIPPS MS. 8299.

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ANELIDA AND ARCITE.

THE COMPLAINT.

[Phillipps MS. 8299, (about the middle. 2 leaves vellum, 1 paper. ab. 1450 A.D.).]

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(31) (Compleint 1. Proem.)

o thirlith with the poynte of remembraunce [leaf A] 211

The Swerde of sorowe y-whett with fals plesaunce

My herte bare of blys and blak' of hewe

That Turnyd is in to quakyng al my1 daunce
My sewertee in to a wapped countenaunce

1 MS.almy

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ANELIDA AND ARCITE.

PHILLIPPS MS. 8299.

Sith it auailleth not for to be true

For who so truyst is it shal hir rue
That semeth love and doth her obseruaunce
Alway tiй oon and chaunge it for no newe

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(32) (Compleint 2; Movement I. 1.)

I wote my self as wele as any wigħt

[leaf A, back]

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For I. lovid oon with all my hert and mygħt
More than my self an hundreth M1 sith

[MI =

thousand]

And callid hym myn hertes day and my knygħt
And was at his als fer as it was right

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And whan that he was glad than was I blith

And of my woo he is so rewtheles

That with oute worde hym lust not dayn)
To bryng a-gayne my sorowful hert in pes
For he is thaugħt vp in another lees
And as hym lust so laghes he at my payn)
And I canne not my woful hert refreyn)
For to loue hym alwey neuer the lesse

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(34) (Compleint 4; Movement I. 3.)

And shall I playn) allas the harde stounde
Vnto my foo that gaue myne hert a wounde
And yet desyreth that my herme be more
Ye certeys for that shaH euer be founde
None other helpe my sores forto sounde
My disteyn hath happed so full yore

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I wołł no nother medicyne ne lore
I woH be euer as I was ons bounde
That I haue said be said for euermore

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