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\"Have ye so great envy\n" +"Of mine honour, that thus complain and cry?\n" +"Or who hath you misboden*, or offended? *wronged\n" +"Do telle me, if it may be amended;\n" +"And why that ye be clad thus all in black?\"\n" +"\n" +"The oldest lady of them all then spake,\n" +"When she had swooned, with a deadly cheer*, *countenance\n" +"That it was ruthe* for to see or hear. *pity\n" +"She saide; \"Lord, to whom fortune hath given\n" +"Vict'ry, and as a conqueror to liven,\n" +"Nought grieveth us your glory and your honour;\n" +"But we beseechen mercy and succour.\n" +"Have mercy on our woe and our distress;\n" +"Some drop of pity, through thy gentleness,\n" +"Upon us wretched women let now fall.\n" +"For certes, lord, there is none of us all\n" +"That hath not been a duchess or a queen;\n" +"Now be we caitives*, as it is well seen: *captives\n" +"Thanked be Fortune, and her false wheel,\n" +"That *none estate ensureth to be wele*. *assures no continuance of\n" +"And certes, lord, t'abiden your presence prosperous estate*\n" +"Here in this temple of the goddess Clemence\n" +"We have been waiting all this fortenight:\n" +"Now help us, lord, since it lies in thy might.\n" +"\n" +"\"I, wretched wight, that weep and waile thus,\n" +"Was whilom wife to king Capaneus,\n" +"That starf* at Thebes, cursed be that day: *died <7>\n" +"And alle we that be in this array,\n" +"And maken all this lamentatioun,\n" +"We losten all our husbands at that town,\n" +"While that the siege thereabouten lay.\n" +"And yet the olde Creon, wellaway!\n" +"That lord is now of Thebes the city,\n" +"Fulfilled of ire and of iniquity,\n" +"He for despite, and for his tyranny,\n" +"To do the deade bodies villainy*, *insult\n" +"Of all our lorde's, which that been y-slaw, *slain\n" +"Hath all the bodies on an heap y-draw,\n" +"And will not suffer them by none assent\n" +"Neither to be y-buried, nor y-brent*, *burnt\n" +"But maketh houndes eat them in despite.\"\n" +"And with that word, withoute more respite\n" +"They fallen groff,* and cryden piteously; *grovelling\n" +"\"Have on us wretched women some mercy,\n" +"And let our sorrow sinken in thine heart.\"\n" +"\n" +"This gentle Duke down from his courser start\n" +"With hearte piteous, when he heard them speak.\n" +"Him thoughte that his heart would all to-break,\n" +"When he saw them so piteous and so mate* *abased\n" +"That whilom weren of so great estate.\n" +"And in his armes he them all up hent*, *raised, took\n" +"And them comforted in full good intent,\n" +"And swore his oath, as he was true knight,\n" +"He woulde do *so farforthly his might* *as far as his power went*\n" +"Upon the tyrant Creon them to wreak*, *avenge\n" +"That all the people of Greece shoulde speak,\n" +"How Creon was of Theseus y-served,\n" +"As he that had his death full well deserved.\n" +"And right anon withoute more abode* *delay\n" +"His banner he display'd, and forth he rode\n" +"To Thebes-ward, and all his, host beside:\n" +"No ner* Athenes would he go nor ride, *nearer\n" +"Nor take his ease fully half a day,\n" +"But onward on his way that night he lay:\n" +"And sent anon Hippolyta the queen,\n" +"And Emily her younge sister sheen* *bright, lovely\n" +"Unto the town of Athens for to dwell:\n" +"And forth he rit*; there is no more to tell. *rode\n" +"\n" +"The red statue of Mars with spear and targe* *shield\n" +"So shineth in his white banner large\n" +"That all the fieldes glitter up and down:\n" +"And by his banner borne is his pennon\n" +"Of gold full rich, in which there was y-beat* *stamped\n" +"The Minotaur<8> which that he slew in Crete\n" +"Thus rit this Duke, thus rit this conqueror\n" +"And in his host of chivalry the flower,\n" +"Till that he came to Thebes, and alight\n" +"Fair in a field, there as he thought to fight.\n" +"But shortly for to speaken of this thing,\n" +"With Creon, which that was of Thebes king,\n" +"He fought, and slew him manly as a knight\n" +"In plain bataille, and put his folk to flight:\n" +"And by assault he won the city after,\n" +"And rent adown both wall, and spar, and rafter;\n" +"And to the ladies he restored again\n" +"The bodies of their husbands that were slain,\n" +"To do obsequies, as was then the guise*. *custom\n" +"\n" +"But it were all too long for to devise* *describe\n" +"The greate clamour, and the waimenting*, *lamenting\n" +"Which that the ladies made at the brenning* *burning\n" +"Of the bodies, and the great honour\n" +"That Theseus the noble conqueror\n" +"Did to the ladies, when they from him went:\n" +"But shortly for to tell is mine intent.\n" +"When that this worthy Duke, this Theseus,\n" +"Had Creon slain, and wonnen Thebes thus,\n" +"Still in the field he took all night his rest,\n" +"And did with all the country as him lest*. *pleased\n" +"To ransack in the tas* of bodies dead, *heap\n" +"Them for to strip of *harness and of **weed, *armour **clothes\n" +"The pillers* did their business and cure, *pillagers <9>\n" +"After the battle and discomfiture.\n" +"And so befell, that in the tas they found,\n" +"Through girt with many a grievous bloody wound,\n" +"Two younge knightes *ligging by and by* *lying side by side*\n" +"Both in *one armes*, wrought full richely: *the same armour*\n" +"Of whiche two, Arcita hight that one,\n" +"And he that other highte Palamon.\n" +"Not fully quick*, nor fully dead they were, *alive\n" +"But by their coat-armour, and by their gear,\n" +"The heralds knew them well in special,\n" +"As those that weren of the blood royal\n" +"Of Thebes, and *of sistren two y-born*. *born of two sisters*\n" +"Out of the tas the pillers have them torn,\n" +"And have them carried soft unto the tent\n" +"Of Theseus, and he full soon them sent\n" +"To Athens, for to dwellen in prison\n" +"Perpetually, he *n'olde no ranson*. *would take no ransom*\n" +"And when this worthy Duke had thus y-done,\n" +"He took his host, and home he rit anon\n" +"With laurel crowned as a conquerour;\n" +"And there he lived in joy and in honour\n" +"Term of his life; what needeth wordes mo'?\n" +"And in a tower, in anguish and in woe,\n" +"Dwellen this Palamon, and eke Arcite,\n" +"For evermore, there may no gold them quite* *set free\n" +"\n" +"Thus passed year by year, and day by day,\n" +"Till it fell ones in a morn of May\n" +"That Emily, that fairer was to seen\n" +"Than is the lily upon his stalke green,\n" +"And fresher than the May with flowers new\n" +"(For with the rose colour strove her hue;\n" +"I n'ot* which was the finer of them two), *know not\n" +"Ere it was day, as she was wont to do,\n" +"She was arisen, and all ready dight*, *dressed\n" +"For May will have no sluggardy a-night;\n" +"The season pricketh every gentle heart,\n" +"And maketh him out of his sleep to start,\n" +"And saith, \"Arise, and do thine observance.\"\n" +"\n" +"This maketh Emily have remembrance\n" +"To do honour to May, and for to rise.\n" +"Y-clothed was she fresh for to devise;\n" +"Her yellow hair was braided in a tress,\n" +"Behind her back, a yarde long I guess.\n" +"And in the garden at *the sun uprist* *sunrise\n" +"She walketh up and down where as her list.\n" +"She gathereth flowers, party* white and red, *mingled\n" +"To make a sotel* garland for her head, *subtle, well-arranged\n" +"And as an angel heavenly she sung.\n" +"The greate tower, that was so thick and strong,\n" +"Which of the castle was the chief dungeon<10>\n" +"(Where as these knightes weren in prison,\n" +"Of which I tolde you, and telle shall),\n" +"Was even joinant* to the garden wall, *adjoining\n" +"There as this Emily had her playing.\n" +"\n" +"Bright was the sun, and clear that morrowning,\n" +"And Palamon, this woful prisoner,\n" +"As was his wont, by leave of his gaoler,\n" +"Was ris'n, and roamed in a chamber on high,\n" +"In which he all the noble city sigh*, *saw\n" +"And eke the garden, full of branches green,\n" +"There as this fresh Emelia the sheen\n" +"Was in her walk, and roamed up and down.\n" +"This sorrowful prisoner, this Palamon\n" +"Went in his chamber roaming to and fro,\n" +"And to himself complaining of his woe:\n" +"That he was born, full oft he said, Alas!\n" +"And so befell, by aventure or cas*, *chance\n" +"That through a window thick of many a bar\n" +"Of iron great, and square as any spar,\n" +"He cast his eyes upon Emelia,\n" +"And therewithal he blent* and cried, Ah! *started aside\n" +"As though he stungen were unto the heart.\n" +"And with that cry Arcite anon up start,\n" +"And saide, \"Cousin mine, what aileth thee,\n" +"That art so pale and deadly for to see?\n" +"Why cried'st thou? who hath thee done offence?\n" +"For Godde's love, take all in patience\n" +"Our prison*, for it may none other be. *imprisonment\n" +"Fortune hath giv'n us this adversity'.\n" +"Some wick'* aspect or disposition *wicked\n" +"Of Saturn<11>, by some constellation,\n" +"Hath giv'n us this, although we had it sworn,\n" +"So stood the heaven when that we were born,\n" +"We must endure; this is the short and plain.\n" +"\n" +"This Palamon answer'd, and said again:\n" +"\"Cousin, forsooth of this opinion\n" +"Thou hast a vain imagination.\n" +"This prison caused me not for to cry;\n" +"But I was hurt right now thorough mine eye\n" +"Into mine heart; that will my bane* be. *destruction\n" +"The fairness of the lady that I see\n" +"Yond in the garden roaming to and fro,\n" +"Is cause of all my crying and my woe.\n" +"I *n'ot wher* she be woman or goddess, *know not whether*\n" +"But Venus is it, soothly* as I guess, *truly\n" +"And therewithal on knees adown he fill,\n" +"And saide: \"Venus, if it be your will\n" +"You in this garden thus to transfigure\n" +"Before me sorrowful wretched creature,\n" +"Out of this prison help that we may scape.\n" +"And if so be our destiny be shape\n" +"By etern word to dien in prison,\n" +"Of our lineage have some compassion,\n" +"That is so low y-brought by tyranny.\"\n" +"\n" +"And with that word Arcita *gan espy* *began to look forth*\n" +"Where as this lady roamed to and fro\n" +"And with that sight her beauty hurt him so,\n" +"That if that Palamon was wounded sore,\n" +"Arcite is hurt as much as he, or more.\n" +"And with a sigh he saide piteously:\n" +"\"The freshe beauty slay'th me suddenly\n" +"Of her that roameth yonder in the place.\n" +"And but* I have her mercy and her grace, *unless\n" +"That I may see her at the leaste way,\n" +"I am but dead; there is no more to say.\"\n" +"This Palamon, when he these wordes heard,\n" +"Dispiteously* he looked, and answer'd: *angrily\n" +"\"Whether say'st thou this in earnest or in play?\"\n" +"\"Nay,\" quoth Arcite, \"in earnest, by my fay*. *faith\n" +"God help me so, *me lust full ill to play*.\" *I am in no humour\n" +"This Palamon gan knit his browes tway. for jesting*\n" +"\"It were,\" quoth he, \"to thee no great honour\n" +"For to be false, nor for to be traitour\n" +"To me, that am thy cousin and thy brother\n" +"Y-sworn full deep, and each of us to other,\n" +"That never for to dien in the pain <12>,\n" +"Till that the death departen shall us twain,\n" +"Neither of us in love to hinder other,\n" +"Nor in none other case, my leve* brother; *dear\n" +"But that thou shouldest truly farther me\n" +"In every case, as I should farther thee.\n" +"This was thine oath, and mine also certain;\n" +"I wot it well, thou dar'st it not withsayn*, *deny\n" +"Thus art thou of my counsel out of doubt,\n" +"And now thou wouldest falsely be about\n" +"To love my lady, whom I love and serve,\n" +"And ever shall, until mine hearte sterve* *die\n" +"Now certes, false Arcite, thou shalt not so\n" +"I lov'd her first, and tolde thee my woe\n" +"As to my counsel, and my brother sworn\n" +"To farther me, as I have told beforn.\n" +"For which thou art y-bounden as a knight\n" +"To helpe me, if it lie in thy might,\n" +"Or elles art thou false, I dare well sayn,\"\n" +"\n" +"This Arcita full proudly spake again:\n" +"\"Thou shalt,\" quoth he, \"be rather* false than I, *sooner\n" +"And thou art false, I tell thee utterly;\n" +"For par amour I lov'd her first ere thou.\n" +"What wilt thou say? *thou wist it not right now* *even now thou\n" +"Whether she be a woman or goddess. knowest not*\n" +"Thine is affection of holiness,\n" +"And mine is love, as to a creature:\n" +"For which I tolde thee mine aventure\n" +"As to my cousin, and my brother sworn\n" +"I pose*, that thou loved'st her beforn: *suppose\n" +"Wost* thou not well the olde clerke's saw<13>, *know'st\n" +"That who shall give a lover any law?\n" +"Love is a greater lawe, by my pan,\n" +"Than may be giv'n to any earthly man:\n" +"Therefore positive law, and such decree,\n" +"Is broke alway for love in each degree\n" +"A man must needes love, maugre his head.\n" +"He may not flee it, though he should be dead,\n" +"*All be she* maid, or widow, or else wife. *whether she be*\n" +"And eke it is not likely all thy life\n" +"To standen in her grace, no more than I\n" +"For well thou wost thyselfe verily,\n" +"That thou and I be damned to prison\n" +"Perpetual, us gaineth no ranson.\n" +"We strive, as did the houndes for the bone;\n" +"They fought all day, and yet their part was none.\n" +"There came a kite, while that they were so wroth,\n" +"And bare away the bone betwixt them both.\n" +"And therefore at the kinge's court, my brother,\n" +"Each man for himselfe, there is no other.\n" +"Love if thee list; for I love and aye shall\n" +"And soothly, leve brother, this is all.\n" +"Here in this prison musten we endure,\n" +"And each of us take his Aventure.\"\n" +"\n" +"Great was the strife and long between these tway,\n" +"If that I hadde leisure for to say;\n" +"But to the effect: it happen'd on a day\n" +"(To tell it you as shortly as I may),\n" +"A worthy duke that hight Perithous<14>\n" +"That fellow was to the Duke Theseus\n" +"Since thilke* day that they were children lite** *that **little\n" +"Was come to Athens, his fellow to visite,\n" +"And for to play, as he was wont to do;\n" +"For in this world he loved no man so;\n" +"And he lov'd him as tenderly again.\n" +"So well they lov'd, as olde bookes sayn,\n" +"That when that one was dead, soothly to sayn,\n" +"His fellow went and sought him down in hell:\n" +"But of that story list me not to write.\n" +"Duke Perithous loved well Arcite,\n" +"And had him known at Thebes year by year:\n" +"And finally at request and prayere\n" +"Of Perithous, withoute ranson\n" +"Duke Theseus him let out of prison,\n" +"Freely to go, where him list over all,\n" +"In such a guise, as I you tellen shall\n" +"This was the forword*, plainly to indite, *promise\n" +"Betwixte Theseus and him Arcite:\n" +"That if so were, that Arcite were y-found\n" +"Ever in his life, by day or night, one stound* *moment<15>\n" +"In any country of this Theseus,\n" +"And he were caught, it was accorded thus,\n" +"That with a sword he shoulde lose his head;\n" +"There was none other remedy nor rede*. *counsel\n" +"But took his leave, and homeward he him sped;\n" +"Let him beware, his necke lieth *to wed*. *in pledge*\n" +"\n" +"How great a sorrow suff'reth now Arcite!\n" +"The death he feeleth through his hearte smite;\n" +"He weepeth, waileth, crieth piteously;\n" +"To slay himself he waiteth privily.\n" +"He said; \"Alas the day that I was born!\n" +"Now is my prison worse than beforn:\n" +"*Now is me shape* eternally to dwell *it is fixed for me*\n" +"Not in purgatory, but right in hell.\n" +"Alas! that ever I knew Perithous.\n" +"For elles had I dwelt with Theseus\n" +"Y-fettered in his prison evermo'.\n" +"Then had I been in bliss, and not in woe.\n" +"Only the sight of her, whom that I serve,\n" +"Though that I never may her grace deserve,\n" +"Would have sufficed right enough for me.\n" +"O deare cousin Palamon,\" quoth he,\n" +"\"Thine is the vict'ry of this aventure,\n" +"Full blissfully in prison to endure:\n" +"In prison? nay certes, in paradise.\n" +"Well hath fortune y-turned thee the dice,\n" +"That hast the sight of her, and I th' absence.\n" +"For possible is, since thou hast her presence,\n" +"And art a knight, a worthy and an able,\n" +"That by some cas*, since fortune is changeable, *chance\n" +"Thou may'st to thy desire sometime attain.\n" +"But I that am exiled, and barren\n" +"Of alle grace, and in so great despair,\n" +"That there n'is earthe, water, fire, nor air,\n" +"Nor creature, that of them maked is,\n" +"That may me helpe nor comfort in this,\n" +"Well ought I *sterve in wanhope* and distress. *die in despair*\n" +"Farewell my life, my lust*, and my gladness. *pleasure\n" +"Alas, *why plainen men so in commune *why do men so often complain\n" +"Of purveyance of God*, or of Fortune, of God's providence?*\n" +"That giveth them full oft in many a guise\n" +"Well better than they can themselves devise?\n" +"Some man desireth for to have richess,\n" +"That cause is of his murder or great sickness.\n" +"And some man would out of his prison fain,\n" +"That in his house is of his meinie* slain. *servants <16>\n" +"Infinite harmes be in this mattere.\n" +"We wot never what thing we pray for here.\n" +"We fare as he that drunk is as a mouse.\n" +"A drunken man wot well he hath an house,\n" +"But he wot not which is the right way thither,\n" +"And to a drunken man the way is slither*. *slippery\n" +"And certes in this world so fare we.\n" +"We seeke fast after felicity,\n" +"But we go wrong full often truely.\n" +"Thus we may sayen all, and namely* I, *especially\n" +"That ween'd*, and had a great opinion, *thought\n" +"That if I might escape from prison\n" +"Then had I been in joy and perfect heal,\n" +"Where now I am exiled from my weal.\n" +"Since that I may not see you, Emily,\n" +"I am but dead; there is no remedy.\"\n" +"\n" +"Upon that other side, Palamon,\n" +"When that he wist Arcita was agone,\n" +"Much sorrow maketh, that the greate tower\n" +"Resounded of his yelling and clamour\n" +"The pure* fetters on his shinnes great *very <17>\n" +"Were of his bitter salte teares wet.\n" +"\n" +"\"Alas!\" quoth he, \"Arcita, cousin mine,\n" +"Of all our strife, God wot, the fruit is thine.\n" +"Thou walkest now in Thebes at thy large,\n" +"And of my woe thou *givest little charge*. *takest little heed*\n" +"Thou mayst, since thou hast wisdom and manhead*, *manhood, courage\n" +"Assemble all the folk of our kindred,\n" +"And make a war so sharp on this country\n" +"That by some aventure, or some treaty,\n" +"Thou mayst have her to lady and to wife,\n" +"For whom that I must needes lose my life.\n" +"For as by way of possibility,\n" +"Since thou art at thy large, of prison free,\n" +"And art a lord, great is thine avantage,\n" +"More than is mine, that sterve here in a cage.\n" +"For I must weep and wail, while that I live,\n" +"With all the woe that prison may me give,\n" +"And eke with pain that love me gives also,\n" +"That doubles all my torment and my woe.\"\n" +"\n" +"Therewith the fire of jealousy upstart\n" +"Within his breast, and hent* him by the heart *seized\n" +"So woodly*, that he like was to behold *madly\n" +"The box-tree, or the ashes dead and cold.\n" +"Then said; \"O cruel goddess, that govern\n" +"This world with binding of your word etern* *eternal\n" +"And writen in the table of adamant\n" +"Your parlement* and your eternal grant, *consultation\n" +"What is mankind more *unto you y-hold* *by you esteemed\n" +"Than is the sheep, that rouketh* in the fold! *lie huddled together\n" +"For slain is man, right as another beast;\n" +"And dwelleth eke in prison and arrest,\n" +"And hath sickness, and great adversity,\n" +"And oftentimes guilteless, pardie* *by God\n" +"What governance is in your prescience,\n" +"That guilteless tormenteth innocence?\n" +"And yet increaseth this all my penance,\n" +"That man is bounden to his observance\n" +"For Godde's sake to *letten of his will*, *restrain his desire*\n" +"Whereas a beast may all his lust fulfil.\n" +"And when a beast is dead, he hath no pain;\n" +"But man after his death must weep and plain,\n" +"Though in this worlde he have care and woe:\n" +"Withoute doubt it maye standen so.\n" +"\"The answer of this leave I to divines,\n" +"But well I wot, that in this world great pine* is; *pain, trouble\n" +"Alas! I see a serpent or a thief\n" +"That many a true man hath done mischief,\n" +"Go at his large, and where him list may turn.\n" +"But I must be in prison through Saturn,\n" +"And eke through Juno, jealous and eke wood*, *mad\n" +"That hath well nigh destroyed all the blood\n" +"Of Thebes, with his waste walles wide.\n" +"And Venus slay'th me on that other side\n" +"For jealousy, and fear of him, Arcite.\"\n" +"\n" +"Now will I stent* of Palamon a lite**, *pause **little\n" +"And let him in his prison stille dwell,\n" +"And of Arcita forth I will you tell.\n" +"The summer passeth, and the nightes long\n" +"Increase double-wise the paines strong\n" +"Both of the lover and the prisonere.\n" +"I n'ot* which hath the wofuller mistere**. *know not **condition\n" +"For, shortly for to say, this Palamon\n" +"Perpetually is damned to prison,\n" +"In chaines and in fetters to be dead;\n" +"And Arcite is exiled *on his head* *on peril of his head*\n" +"For evermore as out of that country,\n" +"Nor never more he shall his lady see.\n" +"You lovers ask I now this question,<18>\n" +"Who lieth the worse, Arcite or Palamon?\n" +"The one may see his lady day by day,\n" +"But in prison he dwelle must alway.\n" +"The other where him list may ride or go,\n" +"But see his lady shall he never mo'.\n" +"Now deem all as you liste, ye that can,\n" +"For I will tell you forth as I began.\n" +"\n" +"When that Arcite to Thebes comen was,\n" +"Full oft a day he swelt*, and said, \"Alas!\" *fainted\n" +"For see this lady he shall never mo'.\n" +"And shortly to concluden all his woe,\n" +"So much sorrow had never creature\n" +"That is or shall be while the world may dure.\n" +"His sleep, his meat, his drink is *him byraft*, *taken away from him*\n" +"That lean he wex*, and dry as any shaft. *became\n" +"His eyen hollow, grisly to behold,\n" +"His hue sallow, and pale as ashes cold,\n" +"And solitary he was, ever alone,\n" +"And wailing all the night, making his moan.\n" +"And if he hearde song or instrument,\n" +"Then would he weepen, he might not be stent*. *stopped\n" +"So feeble were his spirits, and so low,\n" +"And changed so, that no man coulde know\n" +"His speech, neither his voice, though men it heard.\n" +"And in his gear* for all the world he far'd *behaviour <19>\n" +"Not only like the lovers' malady\n" +"Of Eros, but rather y-like manie* *madness\n" +"Engender'd of humours melancholic,\n" +"Before his head in his cell fantastic.<20>\n" +"And shortly turned was all upside down,\n" +"Both habit and eke dispositioun,\n" +"Of him, this woful lover Dan* Arcite. *Lord <21>\n" +"Why should I all day of his woe indite?\n" +"When he endured had a year or two\n" +"This cruel torment, and this pain and woe,\n" +"At Thebes, in his country, as I said,\n" +"Upon a night in sleep as he him laid,\n" +"Him thought how that the winged god Mercury\n" +"Before him stood, and bade him to be merry.\n" +"His sleepy yard* in hand he bare upright; *rod <22>\n" +"A hat he wore upon his haires bright.\n" +"Arrayed was this god (as he took keep*) *notice\n" +"As he was when that Argus<23> took his sleep;\n" +"And said him thus: \"To Athens shalt thou wend*; *go\n" +"There is thee shapen* of thy woe an end.\" *fixed, prepared\n" +"And with that word Arcite woke and start.\n" +"\"Now truely how sore that e'er me smart,\"\n" +"Quoth he, \"to Athens right now will I fare.\n" +"Nor for no dread of death shall I not spare\n" +"To see my lady that I love and serve;\n" +"In her presence *I recke not to sterve.*\" *do not care if I die*\n" +"And with that word he caught a great mirror,\n" +"And saw that changed was all his colour,\n" +"And saw his visage all in other kind.\n" +"And right anon it ran him ill his mind,\n" +"That since his face was so disfigur'd\n" +"Of malady the which he had endur'd,\n" +"He mighte well, if that he *bare him low,* *lived in lowly fashion*\n" +"Live in Athenes evermore unknow,\n" +"And see his lady wellnigh day by day.\n" +"And right anon he changed his array,\n" +"And clad him as a poore labourer.\n" +"And all alone, save only a squier,\n" +"That knew his privity* and all his cas**, *secrets **fortune\n" +"Which was disguised poorly as he was,\n" +"To Athens is he gone the nexte* way. *nearest <24>\n" +"And to the court he went upon a day,\n" +"And at the gate he proffer'd his service,\n" +"To drudge and draw, what so men would devise*. *order\n" +"And, shortly of this matter for to sayn,\n" +"He fell in office with a chamberlain,\n" +"The which that dwelling was with Emily.\n" +"For he was wise, and coulde soon espy\n" +"Of every servant which that served her.\n" +"Well could he hewe wood, and water bear,\n" +"For he was young and mighty for the nones*, *occasion\n" +"And thereto he was strong and big of bones\n" +"To do that any wight can him devise.\n" +"\n" +"A year or two he was in this service,\n" +"Page of the chamber of Emily the bright;\n" +"And Philostrate he saide that he hight.\n" +"But half so well belov'd a man as he\n" +"Ne was there never in court of his degree.\n" +"He was so gentle of conditioun,\n" +"That throughout all the court was his renown.\n" +"They saide that it were a charity\n" +"That Theseus would *enhance his degree*, *elevate him in rank*\n" +"And put him in some worshipful service,\n" +"There as he might his virtue exercise.\n" +"And thus within a while his name sprung\n" +"Both of his deedes, and of his good tongue,\n" +"That Theseus hath taken him so near,\n" +"That of his chamber he hath made him squire,\n" +"And gave him gold to maintain his degree;\n" +"And eke men brought him out of his country\n" +"From year to year full privily his rent.\n" +"But honestly and slyly* he it spent, *discreetly, prudently\n" +"That no man wonder'd how that he it had.\n" +"And three year in this wise his life be lad*, *led\n" +"And bare him so in peace and eke in werre*, *war\n" +"There was no man that Theseus had so derre*. *dear\n" +"And in this blisse leave I now Arcite,\n" +"And speak I will of Palamon a lite*. *little\n" +"\n" +"In darkness horrible, and strong prison,\n" +"This seven year hath sitten Palamon,\n" +"Forpined*, what for love, and for distress. *pined, wasted away\n" +"Who feeleth double sorrow and heaviness\n" +"But Palamon? that love distraineth* so, *afflicts\n" +"That wood* out of his wits he went for woe, *mad\n" +"And eke thereto he is a prisonere\n" +"Perpetual, not only for a year.\n" +"Who coulde rhyme in English properly\n" +"His martyrdom? forsooth*, it is not I; *truly\n" +"Therefore I pass as lightly as I may.\n" +"It fell that in the seventh year, in May\n" +"The thirde night (as olde bookes sayn,\n" +"That all this story tellen more plain),\n" +"Were it by a venture or destiny\n" +"(As when a thing is shapen* it shall be), *settled, decreed\n" +"That soon after the midnight, Palamon\n" +"By helping of a friend brake his prison,\n" +"And fled the city fast as he might go,\n" +"For he had given drink his gaoler so\n" +"Of a clary <25>, made of a certain wine,\n" +"With *narcotise and opie* of Thebes fine, *narcotics and opium*\n" +"That all the night, though that men would him shake,\n" +"The gaoler slept, he mighte not awake:\n" +"And thus he fled as fast as ever he may.\n" +"The night was short, and *faste by the day *close at hand was\n" +"That needes cast he must himself to hide*. the day during which\n" +"And to a grove faste there beside he must cast about, or contrive,\n" +"With dreadful foot then stalked Palamon. to conceal himself.*\n" +"For shortly this was his opinion,\n" +"That in the grove he would him hide all day,\n" +"And in the night then would he take his way\n" +"To Thebes-ward, his friendes for to pray\n" +"On Theseus to help him to warray*. *make war <26>\n" +"And shortly either he would lose his life,\n" +"Or winnen Emily unto his wife.\n" +"This is th' effect, and his intention plain.\n" +"\n" +"Now will I turn to Arcita again,\n" +"That little wist how nighe was his care,\n" +"Till that Fortune had brought him in the snare.\n" +"The busy lark, the messenger of day,\n" +"Saluteth in her song the morning gray;\n" +"And fiery Phoebus riseth up so bright,\n" +"That all the orient laugheth at the sight,\n" +"And with his streames* drieth in the greves** *rays **groves\n" +"The silver droppes, hanging on the leaves;\n" +"And Arcite, that is in the court royal\n" +"With Theseus, his squier principal,\n" +"Is ris'n, and looketh on the merry day.\n" +"And for to do his observance to May,\n" +"Remembering the point* of his desire, *object\n" +"He on his courser, starting as the fire,\n" +"Is ridden to the fieldes him to play,\n" +"Out of the court, were it a mile or tway.\n" +"And to the grove, of which I have you told,\n" +"By a venture his way began to hold,\n" +"To make him a garland of the greves*, *groves\n" +"Were it of woodbine, or of hawthorn leaves,\n" +"And loud he sang against the sun so sheen*. *shining bright\n" +"\"O May, with all thy flowers and thy green,\n" +"Right welcome be thou, faire freshe May,\n" +"I hope that I some green here getten may.\"\n" +"And from his courser*, with a lusty heart, *horse\n" +"Into the grove full hastily he start,\n" +"And in a path he roamed up and down,\n" +"There as by aventure this Palamon\n" +"Was in a bush, that no man might him see,\n" +"For sore afeard of his death was he.\n" +"Nothing ne knew he that it was Arcite;\n" +"God wot he would have *trowed it full lite*. *full little believed it*\n" +"But sooth is said, gone since full many years,\n" +"The field hath eyen*, and the wood hath ears, *eyes\n" +"It is full fair a man *to bear him even*, *to be on his guard*\n" +"For all day meeten men at *unset steven*. *unexpected time <27>\n" +"Full little wot Arcite of his fellaw,\n" +"That was so nigh to hearken of his saw*, *saying, speech\n" +"For in the bush he sitteth now full still.\n" +"When that Arcite had roamed all his fill,\n" +"And *sungen all the roundel* lustily, *sang the roundelay*<28>\n" +"Into a study he fell suddenly,\n" +"As do those lovers in their *quainte gears*, *odd fashions*\n" +"Now in the crop*, and now down in the breres**, <29> *tree-top\n" +"Now up, now down, as bucket in a well. **briars\n" +"Right as the Friday, soothly for to tell,\n" +"Now shineth it, and now it raineth fast,\n" +"Right so can geary* Venus overcast *changeful\n" +"The heartes of her folk, right as her day\n" +"Is gearful*, right so changeth she array. *changeful\n" +"Seldom is Friday all the weeke like.\n" +"When Arcite had y-sung, he gan to sike*, *sigh\n" +"And sat him down withouten any more:\n" +"\"Alas!\" quoth he, \"the day that I was bore!\n" +"How longe, Juno, through thy cruelty\n" +"Wilt thou warrayen* Thebes the city? *torment\n" +"Alas! y-brought is to confusion\n" +"The blood royal of Cadm' and Amphion:\n" +"Of Cadmus, which that was the firste man,\n" +}; +prog_char knightsTale2[] PROGMEM= { +"That Thebes built, or first the town began,\n" +"And of the city first was crowned king.\n" +"Of his lineage am I, and his offspring\n" +"By very line, as of the stock royal;\n" +"And now I am *so caitiff and so thrall*, *wretched and enslaved*\n" +"That he that is my mortal enemy,\n" +"I serve him as his squier poorely.\n" +"And yet doth Juno me well more shame,\n" +"For I dare not beknow* mine owen name, *acknowledge <30>\n" +"But there as I was wont to hight Arcite,\n" +"Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite.\n" +"Alas! thou fell Mars, and alas! Juno,\n" +"Thus hath your ire our lineage all fordo* *undone, ruined\n" +"Save only me, and wretched Palamon,\n" +"That Theseus martyreth in prison.\n" +"And over all this, to slay me utterly,\n" +"Love hath his fiery dart so brenningly* *burningly\n" +"Y-sticked through my true careful heart,\n" +"That shapen was my death erst than my shert. <31>\n" +"Ye slay me with your eyen, Emily;\n" +"Ye be the cause wherefore that I die.\n" +"Of all the remnant of mine other care\n" +"Ne set I not the *mountance of a tare*, *value of a straw*\n" +"So that I could do aught to your pleasance.\"\n" +"\n" +"And with that word he fell down in a trance\n" +"A longe time; and afterward upstart\n" +"This Palamon, that thought thorough his heart\n" +"He felt a cold sword suddenly to glide:\n" +"For ire he quoke*, no longer would he hide. *quaked\n" +"And when that he had heard Arcite's tale,\n" +"As he were wood*, with face dead and pale, *mad\n" +"He start him up out of the bushes thick,\n" +"And said: \"False Arcita, false traitor wick'*, *wicked\n" +"Now art thou hent*, that lov'st my lady so, *caught\n" +"For whom that I have all this pain and woe,\n" +"And art my blood, and to my counsel sworn,\n" +"As I full oft have told thee herebeforn,\n" +"And hast bejaped* here Duke Theseus, *deceived, imposed upon\n" +"And falsely changed hast thy name thus;\n" +"I will be dead, or elles thou shalt die.\n" +"Thou shalt not love my lady Emily,\n" +"But I will love her only and no mo';\n" +"For I am Palamon thy mortal foe.\n" +"And though I have no weapon in this place,\n" +"But out of prison am astart* by grace, *escaped\n" +"I dreade* not that either thou shalt die, *doubt\n" +"Or else thou shalt not loven Emily.\n" +"Choose which thou wilt, for thou shalt not astart.\"\n" +"\n" +"This Arcite then, with full dispiteous* heart, *wrathful\n" +"When he him knew, and had his tale heard,\n" +"As fierce as lion pulled out a swerd,\n" +"And saide thus; \"By God that sitt'th above,\n" +"*N'ere it* that thou art sick, and wood for love, *were it not*\n" +"And eke that thou no weap'n hast in this place,\n" +"Thou should'st never out of this grove pace,\n" +"That thou ne shouldest dien of mine hand.\n" +"For I defy the surety and the band,\n" +"Which that thou sayest I have made to thee.\n" +"What? very fool, think well that love is free;\n" +"And I will love her maugre* all thy might. *despite\n" +"But, for thou art a worthy gentle knight,\n" +"And *wilnest to darraine her by bataille*, *will reclaim her\n" +"Have here my troth, to-morrow I will not fail, by combat*\n" +"Without weeting* of any other wight, *knowledge\n" +"That here I will be founden as a knight,\n" +"And bringe harness* right enough for thee; *armour and arms\n" +"And choose the best, and leave the worst for me.\n" +"And meat and drinke this night will I bring\n" +"Enough for thee, and clothes for thy bedding.\n" +"And if so be that thou my lady win,\n" +"And slay me in this wood that I am in,\n" +"Thou may'st well have thy lady as for me.\"\n" +"This Palamon answer'd, \"I grant it thee.\"\n" +"And thus they be departed till the morrow,\n" +"When each of them hath *laid his faith to borrow*. *pledged his faith*\n" +"\n" +"O Cupid, out of alle charity!\n" +"O Regne* that wilt no fellow have with thee! *queen <32>\n" +"Full sooth is said, that love nor lordeship\n" +"Will not, *his thanks*, have any fellowship. *thanks to him*\n" +"Well finden that Arcite and Palamon.\n" +"Arcite is ridd anon unto the town,\n" +"And on the morrow, ere it were daylight,\n" +"Full privily two harness hath he dight*, *prepared\n" +"Both suffisant and meete to darraine* *contest\n" +"The battle in the field betwixt them twain.\n" +"And on his horse, alone as he was born,\n" +"He carrieth all this harness him beforn;\n" +"And in the grove, at time and place y-set,\n" +"This Arcite and this Palamon be met.\n" +"Then change gan the colour of their face;\n" +"Right as the hunter in the regne* of Thrace *kingdom\n" +"That standeth at a gappe with a spear\n" +"When hunted is the lion or the bear,\n" +"And heareth him come rushing in the greves*, *groves\n" +"And breaking both the boughes and the leaves,\n" +"Thinketh, \"Here comes my mortal enemy,\n" +"Withoute fail, he must be dead or I;\n" +"For either I must slay him at the gap;\n" +"Or he must slay me, if that me mishap:\"\n" +"So fared they, in changing of their hue\n" +"*As far as either of them other knew*. *When they recognised each\n" +"There was no good day, and no saluting, other afar off*\n" +"But straight, withoute wordes rehearsing,\n" +"Evereach of them holp to arm the other,\n" +"As friendly, as he were his owen brother.\n" +"And after that, with sharpe speares strong\n" +"They foined* each at other wonder long. *thrust\n" +"Thou mightest weene*, that this Palamon *think\n" +"In fighting were as a wood* lion, *mad\n" +"And as a cruel tiger was Arcite:\n" +"As wilde boars gan they together smite,\n" +"That froth as white as foam, *for ire wood*. *mad with anger*\n" +"Up to the ancle fought they in their blood.\n" +"And in this wise I let them fighting dwell,\n" +"And forth I will of Theseus you tell.\n" +"\n" +"The Destiny, minister general,\n" +"That executeth in the world o'er all\n" +"The purveyance*, that God hath seen beforn; *foreordination\n" +"So strong it is, that though the world had sworn\n" +"The contrary of a thing by yea or nay,\n" +"Yet some time it shall fallen on a day\n" +"That falleth not eft* in a thousand year. *again\n" +"For certainly our appetites here,\n" +"Be it of war, or peace, or hate, or love,\n" +"All is this ruled by the sight* above. *eye, intelligence, power\n" +"This mean I now by mighty Theseus,\n" +"That for to hunten is so desirous --\n" +"And namely* the greate hart in May -- *especially\n" +"That in his bed there dawneth him no day\n" +"That he n'is clad, and ready for to ride\n" +"With hunt and horn, and houndes him beside.\n" +"For in his hunting hath he such delight,\n" +"That it is all his joy and appetite\n" +"To be himself the greate harte's bane* *destruction\n" +"For after Mars he serveth now Diane.\n" +"Clear was the day, as I have told ere this,\n" +"And Theseus, with alle joy and bliss,\n" +"With his Hippolyta, the faire queen,\n" +"And Emily, y-clothed all in green,\n" +"On hunting be they ridden royally.\n" +"And to the grove, that stood there faste by,\n" +"In which there was an hart, as men him told,\n" +"Duke Theseus the straighte way doth hold,\n" +"And to the laund* he rideth him full right, *plain <33>\n" +"There was the hart y-wont to have his flight,\n" +"And over a brook, and so forth on his way.\n" +"This Duke will have a course at him or tway\n" +"With houndes, such as him lust* to command. *pleased\n" +"And when this Duke was come to the laund,\n" +"Under the sun he looked, and anon\n" +"He was ware of Arcite and Palamon,\n" +"That foughte breme*, as it were bulles two. *fiercely\n" +"The brighte swordes wente to and fro\n" +"So hideously, that with the leaste stroke\n" +"It seemed that it woulde fell an oak,\n" +"But what they were, nothing yet he wote*. *knew\n" +"This Duke his courser with his spurres smote,\n" +"*And at a start* he was betwixt them two, *suddenly*\n" +"And pulled out a sword and cried, \"Ho!\n" +"No more, on pain of losing of your head.\n" +"By mighty Mars, he shall anon be dead\n" +"That smiteth any stroke, that I may see!\n" +"But tell to me what mister* men ye be, *manner, kind <34>\n" +"That be so hardy for to fighte here\n" +"Withoute judge or other officer,\n" +"As though it were in listes royally. <35>\n" +"This Palamon answered hastily,\n" +"And saide: \"Sir, what needeth wordes mo'?\n" +"We have the death deserved bothe two,\n" +"Two woful wretches be we, and caitives,\n" +"That be accumbered* of our own lives, *burdened\n" +"And as thou art a rightful lord and judge,\n" +"So give us neither mercy nor refuge.\n" +"And slay me first, for sainte charity,\n" +"But slay my fellow eke as well as me.\n" +"Or slay him first; for, though thou know it lite*, *little\n" +"This is thy mortal foe, this is Arcite\n" +"That from thy land is banisht on his head,\n" +"For which he hath deserved to be dead.\n" +"For this is he that came unto thy gate\n" +"And saide, that he highte Philostrate.\n" +"Thus hath he japed* thee full many year, *deceived\n" +"And thou hast made of him thy chief esquier;\n" +"And this is he, that loveth Emily.\n" +"For since the day is come that I shall die\n" +"I make pleinly* my confession, *fully, unreservedly\n" +"That I am thilke* woful Palamon, *that same <36>\n" +"That hath thy prison broken wickedly.\n" +"I am thy mortal foe, and it am I\n" +"That so hot loveth Emily the bright,\n" +"That I would die here present in her sight.\n" +"Therefore I aske death and my jewise*. *judgement\n" +"But slay my fellow eke in the same wise,\n" +"For both we have deserved to be slain.\"\n" +"\n" +"This worthy Duke answer'd anon again,\n" +"And said, \"This is a short conclusion.\n" +"Your own mouth, by your own confession\n" +"Hath damned you, and I will it record;\n" +"It needeth not to pain you with the cord;\n" +"Ye shall be dead, by mighty Mars the Red.<37>\n" +"\n" +"The queen anon for very womanhead\n" +"Began to weep, and so did Emily,\n" +"And all the ladies in the company.\n" +"Great pity was it as it thought them all,\n" +"That ever such a chance should befall,\n" +"For gentle men they were, of great estate,\n" +"And nothing but for love was this debate\n" +"They saw their bloody woundes wide and sore,\n" +"And cried all at once, both less and more,\n" +"\"Have mercy, Lord, upon us women all.\"\n" +"And on their bare knees adown they fall\n" +"And would have kissed his feet there as he stood,\n" +"Till at the last *aslaked was his mood* *his anger was\n" +"(For pity runneth soon in gentle heart); appeased*\n" +"And though at first for ire he quoke and start\n" +"He hath consider'd shortly in a clause\n" +"The trespass of them both, and eke the cause:\n" +"And although that his ire their guilt accused\n" +"Yet in his reason he them both excused;\n" +"As thus; he thoughte well that every man\n" +"Will help himself in love if that he can,\n" +"And eke deliver himself out of prison.\n" +"Of women, for they wepten ever-in-one:* *continually\n" +"And eke his hearte had compassion\n" +"And in his gentle heart he thought anon,\n" +"And soft unto himself he saide: \"Fie\n" +"Upon a lord that will have no mercy,\n" +"But be a lion both in word and deed,\n" +"To them that be in repentance and dread,\n" +"As well as-to a proud dispiteous* man *unpitying\n" +"That will maintaine what he first began.\n" +"That lord hath little of discretion,\n" +"That in such case *can no division*: *can make no distinction*\n" +"But weigheth pride and humbless *after one*.\" *alike*\n" +"And shortly, when his ire is thus agone,\n" +"He gan to look on them with eyen light*, *gentle, lenient*\n" +"And spake these same wordes *all on height.* *aloud*\n" +"\n" +"\"The god of love, ah! benedicite*, *bless ye him\n" +"How mighty and how great a lord is he!\n" +"Against his might there gaine* none obstacles, *avail, conquer\n" +"He may be called a god for his miracles\n" +"For he can maken at his owen guise\n" +"Of every heart, as that him list devise.\n" +"Lo here this Arcite, and this Palamon,\n" +"That quietly were out of my prison,\n" +"And might have lived in Thebes royally,\n" +"And weet* I am their mortal enemy, *knew\n" +"And that their death li'th in my might also,\n" +"And yet hath love, *maugre their eyen two*, *in spite of their eyes*\n" +"Y-brought them hither bothe for to die.\n" +"Now look ye, is not this an high folly?\n" +"Who may not be a fool, if but he love?\n" +"Behold, for Godde's sake that sits above,\n" +"See how they bleed! be they not well array'd?\n" +"Thus hath their lord, the god of love, them paid\n" +"Their wages and their fees for their service;\n" +"And yet they weene for to be full wise,\n" +"That serve love, for aught that may befall.\n" +"But this is yet the beste game* of all, *joke\n" +"That she, for whom they have this jealousy,\n" +"Can them therefor as muchel thank as me.\n" +"She wot no more of all this *hote fare*, *hot behaviour*\n" +"By God, than wot a cuckoo or an hare.\n" +"But all must be assayed hot or cold;\n" +"A man must be a fool, or young or old;\n" +"I wot it by myself *full yore agone*: *long years ago*\n" +"For in my time a servant was I one.\n" +"And therefore since I know of love's pain,\n" +"And wot how sore it can a man distrain*, *distress\n" +"As he that oft hath been caught in his last*, *snare <38>\n" +"I you forgive wholly this trespass,\n" +"At request of the queen that kneeleth here,\n" +"And eke of Emily, my sister dear.\n" +"And ye shall both anon unto me swear,\n" +"That never more ye shall my country dere* *injure\n" +"Nor make war upon me night nor day,\n" +"But be my friends in alle that ye may.\n" +"I you forgive this trespass *every deal*. *completely*\n" +"And they him sware *his asking* fair and well, *what he asked*\n" +"And him of lordship and of mercy pray'd,\n" +"And he them granted grace, and thus he said:\n" +"\n" +"\"To speak of royal lineage and richess,\n" +"Though that she were a queen or a princess,\n" +"Each of you both is worthy doubteless\n" +"To wedde when time is; but natheless\n" +"I speak as for my sister Emily,\n" +"For whom ye have this strife and jealousy,\n" +"Ye wot* yourselves, she may not wed the two *know\n" +"At once, although ye fight for evermo:\n" +"But one of you, *all be him loth or lief,* *whether or not he wishes*\n" +"He must *go pipe into an ivy leaf*: *\"go whistle\"*\n" +"This is to say, she may not have you both,\n" +"All be ye never so jealous, nor so wroth.\n" +"And therefore I you put in this degree,\n" +"That each of you shall have his destiny\n" +"As *him is shape*; and hearken in what wise *as is decreed for him*\n" +"Lo hear your end of that I shall devise.\n" +"My will is this, for plain conclusion\n" +"Withouten any replication*, *reply\n" +"If that you liketh, take it for the best,\n" +"That evereach of you shall go where *him lest*, *he pleases\n" +"Freely without ransom or danger;\n" +"And this day fifty weekes, *farre ne nerre*, *neither more nor less*\n" +"Evereach of you shall bring an hundred knights,\n" +"Armed for listes up at alle rights\n" +"All ready to darraine* her by bataille, *contend for\n" +"And this behete* I you withoute fail *promise\n" +"Upon my troth, and as I am a knight,\n" +"That whether of you bothe that hath might,\n" +"That is to say, that whether he or thou\n" +"May with his hundred, as I spake of now,\n" +"Slay his contrary, or out of listes drive,\n" +"Him shall I given Emily to wive,\n" +"To whom that fortune gives so fair a grace.\n" +"The listes shall I make here in this place.\n" +"*And God so wisly on my soule rue*, *may God as surely have\n" +"As I shall even judge be and true. mercy on my soul*\n" +"Ye shall none other ende with me maken\n" +"Than one of you shalle be dead or taken.\n" +"And if you thinketh this is well y-said,\n" +"Say your advice*, and hold yourselves apaid**. *opinion **satisfied\n" +"This is your end, and your conclusion.\"\n" +"Who looketh lightly now but Palamon?\n" +"Who springeth up for joye but Arcite?\n" +"Who could it tell, or who could it indite,\n" +"The joye that is maked in the place\n" +"When Theseus hath done so fair a grace?\n" +"But down on knees went every *manner wight*, *kind of person*\n" +"And thanked him with all their heartes' might,\n" +"And namely* these Thebans *ofte sithe*. *especially *oftentimes*\n" +"And thus with good hope and with hearte blithe\n" +"They take their leave, and homeward gan they ride\n" +"To Thebes-ward, with his old walles wide.\n" +"\n" +"I trow men woulde deem it negligence,\n" +"If I forgot to telle the dispence* *expenditure\n" +"Of Theseus, that went so busily\n" +"To maken up the listes royally,\n" +"That such a noble theatre as it was,\n" +"I dare well say, in all this world there n'as*. *was not\n" +"The circuit a mile was about,\n" +"Walled of stone, and ditched all without.\n" +"*Round was the shape, in manner of compass,\n" +"Full of degrees, the height of sixty pas* *see note <39>*\n" +"That when a man was set on one degree\n" +"He letted* not his fellow for to see. *hindered\n" +"Eastward there stood a gate of marble white,\n" +"Westward right such another opposite.\n" +"And, shortly to conclude, such a place\n" +"Was never on earth made in so little space,\n" +"For in the land there was no craftes-man,\n" +"That geometry or arsmetrike* can**, *arithmetic **knew\n" +"Nor pourtrayor*, nor carver of images, *portrait painter\n" +"That Theseus ne gave him meat and wages\n" +"The theatre to make and to devise.\n" +"And for to do his rite and sacrifice\n" +"He eastward hath upon the gate above,\n" +"In worship of Venus, goddess of love,\n" +"*Done make* an altar and an oratory; *caused to be made*\n" +"And westward, in the mind and in memory\n" +"Of Mars, he maked hath right such another,\n" +"That coste largely of gold a fother*. *a great amount\n" +"And northward, in a turret on the wall,\n" +"Of alabaster white and red coral\n" +"An oratory riche for to see,\n" +"In worship of Diane of chastity,\n" +"Hath Theseus done work in noble wise.\n" +"But yet had I forgotten to devise* *describe\n" +"The noble carving, and the portraitures,\n" +"The shape, the countenance of the figures\n" +"That weren in there oratories three.\n" +"\n" +"First in the temple of Venus may'st thou see\n" +"Wrought on the wall, full piteous to behold,\n" +"The broken sleepes, and the sikes* cold, *sighes\n" +"The sacred teares, and the waimentings*, *lamentings\n" +"The fiery strokes of the desirings,\n" +"That Love's servants in this life endure;\n" +"The oathes, that their covenants assure.\n" +"Pleasance and Hope, Desire, Foolhardiness,\n" +"Beauty and Youth, and Bawdry and Richess,\n" +"Charms and Sorc'ry, Leasings* and Flattery, *falsehoods\n" +"Dispence, Business, and Jealousy,\n" +"That wore of yellow goldes* a garland, *sunflowers <40>\n" +"And had a cuckoo sitting on her hand,\n" +"Feasts, instruments, and caroles and dances,\n" +"Lust and array, and all the circumstances\n" +"Of Love, which I reckon'd and reckon shall\n" +"In order, were painted on the wall,\n" +"And more than I can make of mention.\n" +"For soothly all the mount of Citheron,<41>\n" +"Where Venus hath her principal dwelling,\n" +"Was showed on the wall in pourtraying,\n" +"With all the garden, and the lustiness*. *pleasantness\n" +"Nor was forgot the porter Idleness,\n" +"Nor Narcissus the fair of *yore agone*, *olden times*\n" +"Nor yet the folly of King Solomon,\n" +"Nor yet the greate strength of Hercules,\n" +"Th' enchantments of Medea and Circes,\n" +"Nor of Turnus the hardy fierce courage,\n" +"The rich Croesus *caitif in servage.* <42> *abased into slavery*\n" +"Thus may ye see, that wisdom nor richess,\n" +"Beauty, nor sleight, nor strength, nor hardiness\n" +"Ne may with Venus holde champartie*, *divided possession <43>\n" +"For as her liste the world may she gie*. *guide\n" +"Lo, all these folk so caught were in her las* *snare\n" +"Till they for woe full often said, Alas!\n" +"Suffice these ensamples one or two,\n" +"Although I could reckon a thousand mo'.\n" +"\n" +"The statue of Venus, glorious to see\n" +"Was naked floating in the large sea,\n" +"And from the navel down all cover'd was\n" +"With waves green, and bright as any glass.\n" +"A citole <44> in her right hand hadde she,\n" +"And on her head, full seemly for to see,\n" +"A rose garland fresh, and well smelling,\n" +"Above her head her doves flickering\n" +"Before her stood her sone Cupido,\n" +"Upon his shoulders winges had he two;\n" +"And blind he was, as it is often seen;\n" +"A bow he bare, and arrows bright and keen.\n" +"\n" +"Why should I not as well eke tell you all\n" +"The portraiture, that was upon the wall\n" +"Within the temple of mighty Mars the Red?\n" +"All painted was the wall in length and brede* *breadth\n" +"Like to the estres* of the grisly place *interior chambers\n" +"That hight the great temple of Mars in Thrace,\n" +"In thilke* cold and frosty region, *that\n" +"There as Mars hath his sovereign mansion.\n" +"In which there dwelled neither man nor beast,\n" +"With knotty gnarry* barren trees old *gnarled\n" +"Of stubbes sharp and hideous to behold;\n" +"In which there ran a rumble and a sough*, *groaning noise\n" +"As though a storm should bursten every bough:\n" +"And downward from an hill under a bent* *slope\n" +"There stood the temple of Mars Armipotent,\n" +"Wrought all of burnish'd steel, of which th' entry\n" +"Was long and strait, and ghastly for to see.\n" +"And thereout came *a rage and such a vise*, *such a furious voice*\n" +"That it made all the gates for to rise.\n" +"The northern light in at the doore shone,\n" +"For window on the walle was there none\n" +"Through which men mighten any light discern.\n" +"The doors were all of adamant etern,\n" +"Y-clenched *overthwart and ende-long* *crossways and lengthways*\n" +"With iron tough, and, for to make it strong,\n" +"Every pillar the temple to sustain\n" +"Was tunne-great*, of iron bright and sheen. *thick as a tun (barrel)\n" +"There saw I first the dark imagining\n" +"Of felony, and all the compassing;\n" +"The cruel ire, as red as any glede*, *live coal\n" +"The picke-purse<45>, and eke the pale dread;\n" +"The smiler with the knife under the cloak,\n" +"The shepen* burning with the blacke smoke *stable <46>\n" +"The treason of the murd'ring in the bed,\n" +"The open war, with woundes all be-bled;\n" +"Conteke* with bloody knife, and sharp menace. *contention, discord\n" +"All full of chirking* was that sorry place. *creaking, jarring noise\n" +"The slayer of himself eke saw I there,\n" +"His hearte-blood had bathed all his hair:\n" +"The nail y-driven in the shode* at night, *hair of the head <47>\n" +"The colde death, with mouth gaping upright.\n" +"Amiddes of the temple sat Mischance,\n" +"With discomfort and sorry countenance;\n" +"Eke saw I Woodness* laughing in his rage, *Madness\n" +"Armed Complaint, Outhees*, and fierce Outrage; *Outcry\n" +"The carrain* in the bush, with throat y-corve**, *corpse **slashed\n" +"A thousand slain, and not *of qualm y-storve*; *dead of sickness*\n" +"The tyrant, with the prey by force y-reft;\n" +"The town destroy'd, that there was nothing left.\n" +"Yet saw I brent* the shippes hoppesteres, <48> *burnt\n" +"The hunter strangled with the wilde bears:\n" +"The sow freting* the child right in the cradle; *devouring <49>\n" +"The cook scalded, for all his longe ladle.\n" +"Nor was forgot, *by th'infortune of Mart* *through the misfortune\n" +"The carter overridden with his cart; of war*\n" +"Under the wheel full low he lay adown.\n" +"There were also of Mars' division,\n" +"The armourer, the bowyer*, and the smith, *maker of bows\n" +"That forgeth sharp swordes on his stith*. *anvil\n" +"And all above depainted in a tower\n" +"Saw I Conquest, sitting in great honour,\n" +"With thilke* sharpe sword over his head *that\n" +"Hanging by a subtle y-twined thread.\n" +"Painted the slaughter was of Julius<50>,\n" +"Of cruel Nero, and Antonius:\n" +"Although at that time they were yet unborn,\n" +"Yet was their death depainted there beforn,\n" +"By menacing of Mars, right by figure,\n" +"So was it showed in that portraiture,\n" +"As is depainted in the stars above,\n" +"Who shall be slain, or elles dead for love.\n" +"Sufficeth one ensample in stories old,\n" +"I may not reckon them all, though I wo'ld.\n" +"\n" +"The statue of Mars upon a carte* stood *chariot\n" +"Armed, and looked grim as he were wood*, *mad\n" +"And over his head there shone two figures\n" +"Of starres, that be cleped in scriptures,\n" +"That one Puella, that other Rubeus. <51>\n" +"This god of armes was arrayed thus:\n" +"A wolf there stood before him at his feet\n" +"With eyen red, and of a man he eat:\n" +"With subtle pencil painted was this story,\n" +"In redouting* of Mars and of his glory. *reverance, fear\n" +"\n" +"Now to the temple of Dian the chaste\n" +"As shortly as I can I will me haste,\n" +"To telle you all the descriptioun.\n" +"Depainted be the walles up and down\n" +"Of hunting and of shamefast chastity.\n" +"There saw I how woful Calistope,<52>\n" +"When that Dian aggrieved was with her,\n" +"Was turned from a woman to a bear,\n" +"And after was she made the lodestar*: *pole star\n" +"Thus was it painted, I can say no far*; *farther\n" +"Her son is eke a star as men may see.\n" +"There saw I Dane <53> turn'd into a tree,\n" +"I meane not the goddess Diane,\n" +"But Peneus' daughter, which that hight Dane.\n" +"There saw I Actaeon an hart y-maked*, *made\n" +"For vengeance that he saw Dian all naked:\n" +"I saw how that his houndes have him caught,\n" +"And freten* him, for that they knew him not. *devour\n" +"Yet painted was, a little farthermore\n" +"How Atalanta hunted the wild boar;\n" +"And Meleager, and many other mo',\n" +"For which Diana wrought them care and woe.\n" +"There saw I many another wondrous story,\n" +"The which me list not drawen to memory.\n" +"This goddess on an hart full high was set*, *seated\n" +"With smalle houndes all about her feet,\n" +"And underneath her feet she had a moon,\n" +"Waxing it was, and shoulde wane soon.\n" +"In gaudy green her statue clothed was,\n" +"With bow in hand, and arrows in a case*. *quiver\n" +"Her eyen caste she full low adown,\n" +"Where Pluto hath his darke regioun.\n" +"A woman travailing was her beforn,\n" +"But, for her child so longe was unborn,\n" +"Full piteously Lucina <54> gan she call,\n" +"And saide; \"Help, for thou may'st best of all.\"\n" +"Well could he painte lifelike that it wrought;\n" +"With many a florin he the hues had bought.\n" +"Now be these listes made, and Theseus,\n" +"That at his greate cost arrayed thus\n" +"The temples, and the theatre every deal*, *part <55>\n" +"When it was done, him liked wonder well.\n" +"\n" +"But stint* I will of Theseus a lite**, *cease speaking **little\n" +"And speak of Palamon and of Arcite.\n" +"The day approacheth of their returning,\n" +"That evereach an hundred knights should bring,\n" +"The battle to darraine* as I you told; *contest\n" +"And to Athens, their covenant to hold,\n" +"Hath ev'reach of them brought an hundred knights,\n" +"Well-armed for the war at alle rights.\n" +"And sickerly* there trowed** many a man, *surely <56> **believed\n" +"That never, sithen* that the world began, *since\n" +"For to speaken of knighthood of their hand,\n" +"As far as God hath maked sea and land,\n" +"Was, of so few, so noble a company.\n" +"For every wight that loved chivalry,\n" +"And would, *his thankes, have a passant name*, *thanks to his own\n" +"Had prayed, that he might be of that game, efforts, have a\n" +"And well was him, that thereto chosen was. surpassing name*\n" +"For if there fell to-morrow such a case,\n" +"Ye knowe well, that every lusty knight,\n" +"That loveth par amour, and hath his might\n" +"Were it in Engleland, or elleswhere,\n" +"They would, their thankes, willen to be there,\n" +"T' fight for a lady; Benedicite,\n" +"It were a lusty* sighte for to see. *pleasing\n" +"And right so fared they with Palamon;\n" +"With him there wente knightes many one.\n" +"Some will be armed in an habergeon,\n" +"And in a breast-plate, and in a gipon*; *short doublet.\n" +"And some will have *a pair of plates* large; *back and front armour*\n" +"And some will have a Prusse* shield, or targe; *Prussian\n" +"Some will be armed on their legges weel;\n" +"Some have an axe, and some a mace of steel.\n" +"There is no newe guise*, but it was old. *fashion\n" +"Armed they weren, as I have you told,\n" +"Evereach after his opinion.\n" +"There may'st thou see coming with Palamon\n" +"Licurgus himself, the great king of Thrace:\n" +"Black was his beard, and manly was his face.\n" +"The circles of his eyen in his head\n" +"They glowed betwixte yellow and red,\n" +"And like a griffin looked he about,\n" +"With kemped* haires on his browes stout; *combed<57>\n" +"His limbs were great, his brawns were hard and strong,\n" +"His shoulders broad, his armes round and long.\n" +"And as the guise* was in his country, *fashion\n" +"Full high upon a car of gold stood he,\n" +"With foure white bulles in the trace.\n" +"Instead of coat-armour on his harness,\n" +"With yellow nails, and bright as any gold,\n" +"He had a beare's skin, coal-black for old*. *age\n" +"His long hair was y-kempt behind his back,\n" +"As any raven's feather it shone for black.\n" +"A wreath of gold *arm-great*, of huge weight, *thick as a man's arm*\n" +"Upon his head sate, full of stones bright,\n" +"Of fine rubies and clear diamants.\n" +"About his car there wente white alauns*, *greyhounds <58>\n" +"Twenty and more, as great as any steer,\n" +"To hunt the lion or the wilde bear,\n" +"And follow'd him, with muzzle fast y-bound,\n" +"Collars of gold, and torettes* filed round. *rings\n" +"An hundred lordes had he in his rout* *retinue\n" +"Armed full well, with heartes stern and stout.\n" +"\n" +"With Arcita, in stories as men find,\n" +"The great Emetrius the king of Ind,\n" +"Upon a *steede bay* trapped in steel, *bay horse*\n" +"Cover'd with cloth of gold diapred* well, *decorated\n" +"Came riding like the god of armes, Mars.\n" +"His coat-armour was of *a cloth of Tars*, *a kind of silk*\n" +"Couched* with pearls white and round and great *trimmed\n" +"His saddle was of burnish'd gold new beat;\n" +"A mantelet on his shoulders hanging,\n" +"Bretful* of rubies red, as fire sparkling. *brimful\n" +"His crispe hair like ringes was y-run,\n" +"And that was yellow, glittering as the sun.\n" +"His nose was high, his eyen bright citrine*, *pale yellow\n" +"His lips were round, his colour was sanguine,\n" +"A fewe fracknes* in his face y-sprent**, *freckles **sprinkled\n" +"Betwixte yellow and black somedeal y-ment* *mixed <59>\n" +"And as a lion he *his looking cast* *cast about his eyes*\n" +"Of five and twenty year his age I cast* *reckon\n" +"His beard was well begunnen for to spring;\n" +"His voice was as a trumpet thundering.\n" +"Upon his head he wore of laurel green\n" +"A garland fresh and lusty to be seen;\n" +"Upon his hand he bare, for his delight,\n" +"An eagle tame, as any lily white.\n" +"An hundred lordes had he with him there,\n" +"All armed, save their heads, in all their gear,\n" +"Full richely in alle manner things.\n" +"For trust ye well, that earles, dukes, and kings\n" +"Were gather'd in this noble company,\n" +"For love, and for increase of chivalry.\n" +"About this king there ran on every part\n" +"Full many a tame lion and leopart.\n" +"And in this wise these lordes *all and some* *all and sundry*\n" +"Be on the Sunday to the city come\n" +"Aboute prime<60>, and in the town alight.\n" +"\n" +"This Theseus, this Duke, this worthy knight\n" +"When he had brought them into his city,\n" +"And inned* them, ev'reach at his degree, *lodged\n" +"He feasteth them, and doth so great labour\n" +"To *easen them*, and do them all honour, *make them comfortable*\n" +"That yet men weene* that no mannes wit *think\n" +"Of none estate could amenden* it. *improve\n" +"The minstrelsy, the service at the feast,\n" +"The greate giftes to the most and least,\n" +"The rich array of Theseus' palace,\n" +"Nor who sate first or last upon the dais.<61>\n" +"What ladies fairest be, or best dancing\n" +"Or which of them can carol best or sing,\n" +"Or who most feelingly speaketh of love;\n" +"What hawkes sitten on the perch above,\n" +"What houndes liggen* on the floor adown, *lie\n" +"Of all this now make I no mentioun\n" +"But of th'effect; that thinketh me the best\n" +"Now comes the point, and hearken if you lest.* *please\n" +"\n" +"The Sunday night, ere day began to spring,\n" +"When Palamon the larke hearde sing,\n" +"Although it were not day by houres two,\n" +"Yet sang the lark, and Palamon right tho* *then\n" +"With holy heart, and with an high courage,\n" +"Arose, to wenden* on his pilgrimage *go\n" +"Unto the blissful Cithera benign,\n" +"I meane Venus, honourable and digne*. *worthy\n" +"And in her hour <62> he walketh forth a pace\n" +"Unto the listes, where her temple was,\n" +"And down he kneeleth, and with humble cheer* *demeanour\n" +}; +prog_char knightsTale3[] PROGMEM= { +"And hearte sore, he said as ye shall hear.\n" +"\n" +"\"Fairest of fair, O lady mine Venus,\n" +"Daughter to Jove, and spouse of Vulcanus,\n" +"Thou gladder of the mount of Citheron!<41>\n" +"For thilke love thou haddest to Adon <63>\n" +"Have pity on my bitter teares smart,\n" +"And take mine humble prayer to thine heart.\n" +"Alas! I have no language to tell\n" +"Th'effecte, nor the torment of mine hell;\n" +"Mine hearte may mine harmes not betray;\n" +"I am so confused, that I cannot say.\n" +"But mercy, lady bright, that knowest well\n" +"My thought, and seest what harm that I feel.\n" +"Consider all this, and *rue upon* my sore, *take pity on*\n" +"As wisly* as I shall for evermore *truly\n" +"Enforce my might, thy true servant to be,\n" +"And holde war alway with chastity:\n" +"That make I mine avow*, so ye me help. *vow, promise\n" +"I keepe not of armes for to yelp,* *boast\n" +"Nor ask I not to-morrow to have victory,\n" +"Nor renown in this case, nor vaine glory\n" +"Of *prize of armes*, blowing up and down, *praise for valour*\n" +"But I would have fully possessioun\n" +"Of Emily, and die in her service;\n" +"Find thou the manner how, and in what wise.\n" +"I *recke not but* it may better be *do not know whether*\n" +"To have vict'ry of them, or they of me,\n" +"So that I have my lady in mine arms.\n" +"For though so be that Mars is god of arms,\n" +"Your virtue is so great in heaven above,\n" +"That, if you list, I shall well have my love.\n" +"Thy temple will I worship evermo',\n" +"And on thine altar, where I ride or go,\n" +"I will do sacrifice, and fires bete*. *make, kindle\n" +"And if ye will not so, my lady sweet,\n" +"Then pray I you, to-morrow with a spear\n" +"That Arcita me through the hearte bear\n" +"Then reck I not, when I have lost my life,\n" +"Though that Arcita win her to his wife.\n" +"This is th' effect and end of my prayere, --\n" +"Give me my love, thou blissful lady dear.\"\n" +"When th' orison was done of Palamon,\n" +"His sacrifice he did, and that anon,\n" +"Full piteously, with alle circumstances,\n" +"*All tell I not as now* his observances. *although I tell not now*\n" +"But at the last the statue of Venus shook,\n" +"And made a signe, whereby that he took\n" +"That his prayer accepted was that day.\n" +"For though the signe shewed a delay,\n" +"Yet wist he well that granted was his boon;\n" +"And with glad heart he went him home full soon.\n" +"\n" +"The third hour unequal <64> that Palamon\n" +"Began to Venus' temple for to gon,\n" +"Up rose the sun, and up rose Emily,\n" +"And to the temple of Dian gan hie.\n" +"Her maidens, that she thither with her lad*, *led\n" +"Th' incense, the clothes, and the remnant all\n" +"That to the sacrifice belonge shall,\n" +"The hornes full of mead, as was the guise;\n" +"There lacked nought to do her sacrifice.\n" +"Smoking* the temple full of clothes fair, *draping <65>\n" +"This Emily with hearte debonnair* *gentle\n" +"Her body wash'd with water of a well.\n" +"But how she did her rite I dare not tell;\n" +"But* it be any thing in general; *unless\n" +"And yet it were a game* to hearen all *pleasure\n" +"To him that meaneth well it were no charge:\n" +"But it is good a man to *be at large*. *do as he will*\n" +"Her bright hair combed was, untressed all.\n" +"A coronet of green oak cerriall <66>\n" +"Upon her head was set full fair and meet.\n" +"Two fires on the altar gan she bete,\n" +"And did her thinges, as men may behold\n" +"In Stace of Thebes <67>, and these bookes old.\n" +"When kindled was the fire, with piteous cheer\n" +"Unto Dian she spake as ye may hear.\n" +"\n" +"\"O chaste goddess of the woodes green,\n" +"To whom both heav'n and earth and sea is seen,\n" +"Queen of the realm of Pluto dark and low,\n" +"Goddess of maidens, that mine heart hast know\n" +"Full many a year, and wost* what I desire, *knowest\n" +"To keep me from the vengeance of thine ire,\n" +"That Actaeon aboughte* cruelly: *earned; suffered from\n" +"Chaste goddess, well wottest thou that I\n" +"Desire to be a maiden all my life,\n" +"Nor never will I be no love nor wife.\n" +"I am, thou wost*, yet of thy company, *knowest\n" +"A maid, and love hunting and venery*, *field sports\n" +"And for to walken in the woodes wild,\n" +"And not to be a wife, and be with child.\n" +"Nought will I know the company of man.\n" +"Now help me, lady, since ye may and can,\n" +"For those three formes <68> that thou hast in thee.\n" +"And Palamon, that hath such love to me,\n" +"And eke Arcite, that loveth me so sore,\n" +"This grace I pray thee withoute more,\n" +"As sende love and peace betwixt them two:\n" +"And from me turn away their heartes so,\n" +"That all their hote love, and their desire,\n" +"And all their busy torment, and their fire,\n" +"Be queint*, or turn'd into another place. *quenched\n" +"And if so be thou wilt do me no grace,\n" +"Or if my destiny be shapen so\n" +"That I shall needes have one of them two,\n" +"So send me him that most desireth me.\n" +"Behold, goddess of cleane chastity,\n" +"The bitter tears that on my cheekes fall.\n" +"Since thou art maid, and keeper of us all,\n" +"My maidenhead thou keep and well conserve,\n" +"And, while I live, a maid I will thee serve.\n" +"\n" +"The fires burn upon the altar clear,\n" +"While Emily was thus in her prayere:\n" +"But suddenly she saw a sighte quaint*. *strange\n" +"For right anon one of the fire's *queint\n" +"And quick'd* again, and after that anon *went out and revived*\n" +"That other fire was queint, and all agone:\n" +"And as it queint, it made a whisteling,\n" +"As doth a brande wet in its burning.\n" +"And at the brandes end outran anon\n" +"As it were bloody droppes many one:\n" +"For which so sore aghast was Emily,\n" +"That she was well-nigh mad, and gan to cry,\n" +"For she ne wiste what it signified;\n" +"But onely for feare thus she cried,\n" +"And wept, that it was pity for to hear.\n" +"And therewithal Diana gan appear\n" +"With bow in hand, right as an hunteress,\n" +"And saide; \"Daughter, stint* thine heaviness. *cease\n" +"Among the goddes high it is affirm'd,\n" +"And by eternal word writ and confirm'd,\n" +"Thou shalt be wedded unto one of tho* *those\n" +"That have for thee so muche care and woe:\n" +"But unto which of them I may not tell.\n" +"Farewell, for here I may no longer dwell.\n" +"The fires which that on mine altar brenn*, *burn\n" +"Shall thee declaren, ere that thou go henne*, *hence\n" +"Thine aventure of love, as in this case.\"\n" +"And with that word, the arrows in the case* *quiver\n" +"Of the goddess did clatter fast and ring,\n" +"And forth she went, and made a vanishing,\n" +"For which this Emily astonied was,\n" +"And saide; \"What amounteth this, alas!\n" +"I put me under thy protection,\n" +"Diane, and in thy disposition.\"\n" +"And home she went anon the nexte* way. *nearest\n" +"This is th' effect, there is no more to say.\n" +"\n" +"The nexte hour of Mars following this\n" +"Arcite to the temple walked is\n" +"Of fierce Mars, to do his sacrifice\n" +"With all the rites of his pagan guise.\n" +"With piteous* heart and high devotion *pious\n" +"Right thus to Mars he said his orison\n" +"\"O stronge god, that in the regnes* old *realms\n" +"Of Thrace honoured art, and lord y-hold* *held\n" +"And hast in every regne, and every land\n" +"Of armes all the bridle in thine hand,\n" +"And *them fortunest as thee list devise*, *send them fortune\n" +"Accept of me my piteous sacrifice. as you please*\n" +"If so be that my youthe may deserve,\n" +"And that my might be worthy for to serve\n" +"Thy godhead, that I may be one of thine,\n" +"Then pray I thee to *rue upon my pine*, *pity my anguish*\n" +"For thilke* pain, and thilke hote fire, *that\n" +"In which thou whilom burned'st for desire\n" +"Whenne that thou usedest* the beauty *enjoyed\n" +"Of faire young Venus, fresh and free,\n" +"And haddest her in armes at thy will:\n" +"And though thee ones on a time misfill*, *were unlucky\n" +"When Vulcanus had caught thee in his las*, *net <69>\n" +"And found thee ligging* by his wife, alas! *lying\n" +"For thilke sorrow that was in thine heart,\n" +"Have ruth* as well upon my paine's smart. *pity\n" +"I am young and unconning*, as thou know'st, *ignorant, simple\n" +"And, as I trow*, with love offended most *believe\n" +"That e'er was any living creature:\n" +"For she, that doth* me all this woe endure, *causes\n" +"Ne recketh ne'er whether I sink or fleet* *swim\n" +"And well I wot, ere she me mercy hete*, *promise, vouchsafe\n" +"I must with strengthe win her in the place:\n" +"And well I wot, withoute help or grace\n" +"Of thee, ne may my strengthe not avail:\n" +"Then help me, lord, to-morr'w in my bataille,\n" +"For thilke fire that whilom burned thee,\n" +"As well as this fire that now burneth me;\n" +"And do* that I to-morr'w may have victory. *cause\n" +"Mine be the travail, all thine be the glory.\n" +"Thy sovereign temple will I most honour\n" +"Of any place, and alway most labour\n" +"In thy pleasance and in thy craftes strong.\n" +"And in thy temple I will my banner hong*, *hang\n" +"And all the armes of my company,\n" +"And evermore, until that day I die,\n" +"Eternal fire I will before thee find\n" +"And eke to this my vow I will me bind:\n" +"My beard, my hair that hangeth long adown,\n" +"That never yet hath felt offension* *indignity\n" +"Of razor nor of shears, I will thee give,\n" +"And be thy true servant while I live.\n" +"Now, lord, have ruth upon my sorrows sore,\n" +"Give me the victory, I ask no more.\"\n" +"\n" +"The prayer stint* of Arcita the strong, *ended\n" +"The ringes on the temple door that hong,\n" +"And eke the doores, clattered full fast,\n" +"Of which Arcita somewhat was aghast.\n" +"The fires burn'd upon the altar bright,\n" +"That it gan all the temple for to light;\n" +"A sweete smell anon the ground up gaf*, *gave\n" +"And Arcita anon his hand up haf*, *lifted\n" +"And more incense into the fire he cast,\n" +"With other rites more and at the last\n" +"The statue of Mars began his hauberk ring;\n" +"And with that sound he heard a murmuring\n" +"Full low and dim, that saide thus, \"Victory.\"\n" +"For which he gave to Mars honour and glory.\n" +"And thus with joy, and hope well to fare,\n" +"Arcite anon unto his inn doth fare.\n" +"As fain* as fowl is of the brighte sun. *glad\n" +"\n" +"And right anon such strife there is begun\n" +"For thilke* granting, in the heav'n above, *that\n" +"Betwixte Venus the goddess of love,\n" +"And Mars the sterne god armipotent,\n" +"That Jupiter was busy it to stent*: *stop\n" +"Till that the pale Saturnus the cold,<70>\n" +"That knew so many of adventures old,\n" +"Found in his old experience such an art,\n" +"That he full soon hath pleased every part.\n" +"As sooth is said, eld* hath great advantage, *age\n" +"In eld is bothe wisdom and usage*: *experience\n" +"Men may the old out-run, but not out-rede*. *outwit\n" +"Saturn anon, to stint the strife and drede,\n" +"Albeit that it is against his kind,* *nature\n" +"Of all this strife gan a remedy find.\n" +"\"My deare daughter Venus,\" quoth Saturn,\n" +"\"My course*, that hath so wide for to turn, *orbit <71>\n" +"Hath more power than wot any man.\n" +"Mine is the drowning in the sea so wan;\n" +"Mine is the prison in the darke cote*, *cell\n" +"Mine the strangling and hanging by the throat,\n" +"The murmur, and the churlish rebelling,\n" +"The groyning*, and the privy poisoning. *discontent\n" +"I do vengeance and plein* correction, *full\n" +"I dwell in the sign of the lion.\n" +"Mine is the ruin of the highe halls,\n" +"The falling of the towers and the walls\n" +"Upon the miner or the carpenter:\n" +"I slew Samson in shaking the pillar:\n" +"Mine also be the maladies cold,\n" +"The darke treasons, and the castes* old: *plots\n" +"My looking is the father of pestilence.\n" +"Now weep no more, I shall do diligence\n" +"That Palamon, that is thine owen knight,\n" +"Shall have his lady, as thou hast him hight*. *promised\n" +"Though Mars shall help his knight, yet natheless\n" +"Betwixte you there must sometime be peace:\n" +"All be ye not of one complexion,\n" +"That each day causeth such division,\n" +"I am thine ayel*, ready at thy will; *grandfather <72>\n" +"Weep now no more, I shall thy lust* fulfil.\" *pleasure\n" +"Now will I stenten* of the gods above, *cease speaking\n" +"Of Mars, and of Venus, goddess of love,\n" +"And telle you as plainly as I can\n" +"The great effect, for which that I began.\n" +"\n" +"Great was the feast in Athens thilke* day; *that\n" +"And eke the lusty season of that May\n" +"Made every wight to be in such pleasance,\n" +"That all that Monday jousten they and dance,\n" +"And spenden it in Venus' high service.\n" +"But by the cause that they shoulde rise\n" +"Early a-morrow for to see that fight,\n" +"Unto their reste wente they at night.\n" +"And on the morrow, when the day gan spring,\n" +"Of horse and harness* noise and clattering *armour\n" +"There was in the hostelries all about:\n" +"And to the palace rode there many a rout* *train, retinue\n" +"Of lordes, upon steedes and palfreys.\n" +"There mayst thou see devising* of harness *decoration\n" +"So uncouth* and so rich, and wrought so weel *unkown, rare\n" +"Of goldsmithry, of brouding*, and of steel; *embroidery\n" +"The shieldes bright, the testers*, and trappures** *helmets<73>\n" +"Gold-hewen helmets, hauberks, coat-armures; **trappings\n" +"Lordes in parements* on their coursers, *ornamental garb <74>;\n" +"Knightes of retinue, and eke squiers,\n" +"Nailing the spears, and helmes buckeling,\n" +"Gniding* of shieldes, with lainers** lacing; *polishing <75>\n" +"There as need is, they were nothing idle: **lanyards\n" +"The foamy steeds upon the golden bridle\n" +"Gnawing, and fast the armourers also\n" +"With file and hammer pricking to and fro;\n" +"Yeomen on foot, and knaves* many one *servants\n" +"With shorte staves, thick* as they may gon**; *close **walk\n" +"Pipes, trumpets, nakeres*, and clariouns, *drums <76>\n" +"That in the battle blowe bloody souns;\n" +"The palace full of people up and down,\n" +"There three, there ten, holding their questioun*, *conversation\n" +"Divining* of these Theban knightes two. *conjecturing\n" +"Some saiden thus, some said it shall he so;\n" +"Some helden with him with the blacke beard,\n" +"Some with the bald, some with the thick-hair'd;\n" +"Some said he looked grim, and woulde fight:\n" +"He had a sparth* of twenty pound of weight. *double-headed axe\n" +"Thus was the halle full of divining* *conjecturing\n" +"Long after that the sunne gan up spring.\n" +"The great Theseus that of his sleep is waked\n" +"With minstrelsy, and noise that was maked,\n" +"Held yet the chamber of his palace rich,\n" +"Till that the Theban knightes both y-lich* *alike\n" +"Honoured were, and to the palace fet*. *fetched\n" +"Duke Theseus is at a window set,\n" +"Array'd right as he were a god in throne:\n" +"The people presseth thitherward full soon\n" +"Him for to see, and do him reverence,\n" +"And eke to hearken his hest* and his sentence**. *command **speech\n" +"An herald on a scaffold made an O, <77>\n" +"Till the noise of the people was y-do*: *done\n" +"And when he saw the people of noise all still,\n" +"Thus shewed he the mighty Duke's will.\n" +"\"The lord hath of his high discretion\n" +"Considered that it were destruction\n" +"To gentle blood, to fighten in the guise\n" +"Of mortal battle now in this emprise:\n" +"Wherefore to shape* that they shall not die, *arrange, contrive\n" +"He will his firste purpose modify.\n" +"No man therefore, on pain of loss of life,\n" +"No manner* shot, nor poleaxe, nor short knife *kind of\n" +"Into the lists shall send, or thither bring.\n" +"Nor short sword for to stick with point biting\n" +"No man shall draw, nor bear it by his side.\n" +"And no man shall unto his fellow ride\n" +"But one course, with a sharp y-grounden spear:\n" +"*Foin if him list on foot, himself to wear. *He who wishes can\n" +"And he that is at mischief shall be take*, fence on foot to defend\n" +"And not slain, but be brought unto the stake, himself, and he that\n" +"That shall be ordained on either side; is in peril shall be taken*\n" +"Thither he shall by force, and there abide.\n" +"And if *so fall* the chiefetain be take *should happen*\n" +"On either side, or elles slay his make*, *equal, match\n" +"No longer then the tourneying shall last.\n" +"God speede you; go forth and lay on fast.\n" +"With long sword and with mace fight your fill.\n" +"Go now your way; this is the lordes will.\n" +"The voice of the people touched the heaven,\n" +"So loude cried they with merry steven*: *sound\n" +"God save such a lord that is so good,\n" +"He willeth no destruction of blood.\n" +"\n" +"Up go the trumpets and the melody,\n" +"And to the listes rode the company\n" +"*By ordinance*, throughout the city large, *in orderly array*\n" +"Hanged with cloth of gold, and not with sarge*. *serge <78>\n" +"Full like a lord this noble Duke gan ride,\n" +"And these two Thebans upon either side:\n" +"\n" +"And after rode the queen and Emily,\n" +"And after them another company\n" +"Of one and other, after their degree.\n" +"And thus they passed thorough that city\n" +"And to the listes came they by time:\n" +"It was not of the day yet fully prime*. *between 6 & 9 a.m.\n" +"When set was Theseus full rich and high,\n" +"Hippolyta the queen and Emily,\n" +"And other ladies in their degrees about,\n" +"Unto the seates presseth all the rout.\n" +"And westward, through the gates under Mart,\n" +"Arcite, and eke the hundred of his part,\n" +"With banner red, is enter'd right anon;\n" +"And in the selve* moment Palamon *self-same\n" +"Is, under Venus, eastward in the place,\n" +"With banner white, and hardy cheer* and face *expression\n" +"In all the world, to seeken up and down\n" +"So even* without variatioun *equal\n" +"There were such companies never tway.\n" +"For there was none so wise that coulde say\n" +"That any had of other avantage\n" +"Of worthiness, nor of estate, nor age,\n" +"So even were they chosen for to guess.\n" +"And *in two ranges faire they them dress*. *they arranged themselves\n" +"When that their names read were every one, in two rows*\n" +"That in their number guile* were there none, *fraud\n" +"Then were the gates shut, and cried was loud;\n" +"\"Do now your devoir, younge knights proud\n" +"The heralds left their pricking* up and down *spurring their horses\n" +"Now ring the trumpet loud and clarioun.\n" +"There is no more to say, but east and west\n" +"In go the speares sadly* in the rest; *steadily\n" +"In go the sharpe spurs into the side.\n" +"There see me who can joust, and who can ride.\n" +"There shiver shaftes upon shieldes thick;\n" +"He feeleth through the hearte-spoon<79> the prick.\n" +"Up spring the speares twenty foot on height;\n" +"Out go the swordes as the silver bright.\n" +"The helmes they to-hewen, and to-shred*; *strike in pieces <80>\n" +"Out burst the blood, with sterne streames red.\n" +"With mighty maces the bones they to-brest*. *burst\n" +"He <81> through the thickest of the throng gan threst*. *thrust\n" +"There stumble steedes strong, and down go all.\n" +"He rolleth under foot as doth a ball.\n" +"He foineth* on his foe with a trunchoun, *forces himself\n" +"And he him hurtleth with his horse adown.\n" +"He through the body hurt is, and *sith take*, *afterwards captured*\n" +"Maugre his head, and brought unto the stake,\n" +"As forword* was, right there he must abide. *covenant\n" +"Another led is on that other side.\n" +"And sometime doth* them Theseus to rest, *caused\n" +"Them to refresh, and drinken if them lest*. *pleased\n" +"Full oft a day have thilke Thebans two *these\n" +"Together met and wrought each other woe:\n" +"Unhorsed hath each other of them tway* *twice\n" +"There is no tiger in the vale of Galaphay, <82>\n" +"When that her whelp is stole, when it is lite* *little\n" +"So cruel on the hunter, as Arcite\n" +"For jealous heart upon this Palamon:\n" +"Nor in Belmarie <83> there is no fell lion,\n" +"That hunted is, or for his hunger wood* *mad\n" +"Or for his prey desireth so the blood,\n" +"As Palamon to slay his foe Arcite.\n" +"The jealous strokes upon their helmets bite;\n" +"Out runneth blood on both their sides red,\n" +"Sometime an end there is of every deed\n" +"For ere the sun unto the reste went,\n" +"The stronge king Emetrius gan hent* *sieze, assail\n" +"This Palamon, as he fought with Arcite,\n" +"And made his sword deep in his flesh to bite,\n" +"And by the force of twenty is he take,\n" +"Unyielding, and is drawn unto the stake.\n" +"And in the rescue of this Palamon\n" +"The stronge king Licurgus is borne down:\n" +"And king Emetrius, for all his strength\n" +"Is borne out of his saddle a sword's length,\n" +"So hit him Palamon ere he were take:\n" +"But all for nought; he was brought to the stake:\n" +"His hardy hearte might him helpe naught,\n" +"He must abide when that he was caught,\n" +"By force, and eke by composition*. *the bargain\n" +"Who sorroweth now but woful Palamon\n" +"That must no more go again to fight?\n" +"And when that Theseus had seen that sight\n" +"Unto the folk that foughte thus each one,\n" +"He cried, Ho! no more, for it is done!\n" +"I will be true judge, and not party.\n" +"Arcite of Thebes shall have Emily,\n" +"That by his fortune hath her fairly won.\"\n" +"Anon there is a noise of people gone,\n" +"For joy of this, so loud and high withal,\n" +"It seemed that the listes shoulde fall.\n" +"\n" +"What can now faire Venus do above?\n" +"What saith she now? what doth this queen of love?\n" +"But weepeth so, for wanting of her will,\n" +"Till that her teares in the listes fill* *fall\n" +"She said: \"I am ashamed doubteless.\"\n" +"Saturnus saide: \"Daughter, hold thy peace.\n" +"Mars hath his will, his knight hath all his boon,\n" +"And by mine head thou shalt be eased soon.\"\n" +" The trumpeters with the loud minstrelsy,\n" +"The heralds, that full loude yell and cry,\n" +"Be in their joy for weal of Dan* Arcite. *Lord\n" +"But hearken me, and stinte noise a lite,\n" +"What a miracle there befell anon\n" +"This fierce Arcite hath off his helm y-done,\n" +"And on a courser for to shew his face\n" +"He *pricketh endelong* the large place, *rides from end to end*\n" +"Looking upward upon this Emily;\n" +"And she again him cast a friendly eye\n" +"(For women, as to speaken *in commune*, *generally*\n" +"They follow all the favour of fortune),\n" +"And was all his in cheer*, as his in heart. *countenance\n" +"Out of the ground a fire infernal start,\n" +"From Pluto sent, at request of Saturn\n" +"For which his horse for fear began to turn,\n" +"And leap aside, and founder* as he leap *stumble\n" +"And ere that Arcite may take any keep*, *care\n" +"He pight* him on the pummel** of his head. *pitched **top\n" +"That in the place he lay as he were dead.\n" +"His breast to-bursten with his saddle-bow.\n" +"As black he lay as any coal or crow,\n" +"So was the blood y-run into his face.\n" +"Anon he was y-borne out of the place\n" +"With hearte sore, to Theseus' palace.\n" +"Then was he carven* out of his harness. *cut\n" +"And in a bed y-brought full fair and blive* *quickly\n" +"For he was yet in mem'ry and alive,\n" +"And always crying after Emily.\n" +"\n" +"Duke Theseus, with all his company,\n" +"Is come home to Athens his city,\n" +"With alle bliss and great solemnity.\n" +"Albeit that this aventure was fall*, *befallen\n" +"He woulde not discomforte* them all *discourage\n" +"Then said eke, that Arcite should not die,\n" +"He should be healed of his malady.\n" +"And of another thing they were as fain*. *glad\n" +"That of them alle was there no one slain,\n" +"All* were they sorely hurt, and namely** one, *although **especially\n" +"That with a spear was thirled* his breast-bone. *pierced\n" +"To other woundes, and to broken arms,\n" +"Some hadden salves, and some hadden charms:\n" +"And pharmacies of herbs, and eke save* *sage, Salvia officinalis\n" +"They dranken, for they would their lives have.\n" +"For which this noble Duke, as he well can,\n" +"Comforteth and honoureth every man,\n" +"And made revel all the longe night,\n" +"Unto the strange lordes, as was right.\n" +"Nor there was holden no discomforting,\n" +"But as at jousts or at a tourneying;\n" +"For soothly there was no discomfiture,\n" +"For falling is not but an aventure*. *chance, accident\n" +"Nor to be led by force unto a stake\n" +"Unyielding, and with twenty knights y-take\n" +"One person all alone, withouten mo',\n" +"And harried* forth by armes, foot, and toe, *dragged, hurried\n" +"And eke his steede driven forth with staves,\n" +"With footmen, bothe yeomen and eke knaves*, *servants\n" +"It was *aretted him no villainy:* *counted no disgrace to him*\n" +"There may no man *clepen it cowardy*. *call it cowardice*\n" +"For which anon Duke Theseus *let cry*, -- *caused to be proclaimed*\n" +"To stenten* alle rancour and envy, -- *stop\n" +"The gree* as well on one side as the other, *prize, merit\n" +"And either side alike as other's brother:\n" +"And gave them giftes after their degree,\n" +"And held a feaste fully dayes three:\n" +"And conveyed the kinges worthily\n" +"Out of his town a journee* largely *day's journey\n" +"And home went every man the righte way,\n" +"There was no more but \"Farewell, Have good day.\"\n" +"Of this bataille I will no more indite\n" +"But speak of Palamon and of Arcite.\n" +"\n" +"Swelleth the breast of Arcite and the sore\n" +"Increaseth at his hearte more and more.\n" +"The clotted blood, for any leache-craft* *surgical skill\n" +"Corrupteth and is *in his bouk y-laft* *left in his body*\n" +"That neither *veine blood nor ventousing*, *blood-letting or cupping*\n" +"Nor drink of herbes may be his helping.\n" +"The virtue expulsive or animal,\n" +"From thilke virtue called natural,\n" +"Nor may the venom voide, nor expel\n" +"The pipes of his lungs began to swell\n" +"And every lacert* in his breast adown *sinew, muscle\n" +"Is shent* with venom and corruption. *destroyed\n" +"Him gaineth* neither, for to get his life, *availeth\n" +"Vomit upward, nor downward laxative;\n" +"All is to-bursten thilke region;\n" +"Nature hath now no domination.\n" +"And certainly where nature will not wirch,* *work\n" +"Farewell physic: go bear the man to chirch.* *church\n" +"This all and some is, Arcite must die.\n" +"For which he sendeth after Emily,\n" +"And Palamon, that was his cousin dear,\n" +"Then said he thus, as ye shall after hear.\n" +"\n" +"\"Nought may the woful spirit in mine heart\n" +"Declare one point of all my sorrows' smart\n" +"To you, my lady, that I love the most:\n" +"But I bequeath the service of my ghost\n" +"To you aboven every creature,\n" +"Since that my life ne may no longer dure.\n" +"Alas the woe! alas, the paines strong\n" +"That I for you have suffered and so long!\n" +"Alas the death, alas, mine Emily!\n" +"Alas departing* of our company! *the severance\n" +"Alas, mine hearte's queen! alas, my wife!\n" +"Mine hearte's lady, ender of my life!\n" +"What is this world? what aske men to have?\n" +"Now with his love, now in his colde grave\n" +"Al one, withouten any company.\n" +"Farewell, my sweet, farewell, mine Emily,\n" +"And softly take me in your armes tway,\n" +"For love of God, and hearken what I say.\n" +"I have here with my cousin Palamon\n" +"Had strife and rancour many a day agone,\n" +"For love of you, and for my jealousy.\n" +"And Jupiter so *wis my soule gie*, *surely guides my soul*\n" +"To speaken of a servant properly,\n" +"With alle circumstances truely,\n" +"That is to say, truth, honour, and knighthead,\n" +"Wisdom, humbless*, estate, and high kindred, *humility\n" +"Freedom, and all that longeth to that art,\n" +"So Jupiter have of my soul part,\n" +"As in this world right now I know not one,\n" +"So worthy to be lov'd as Palamon,\n" +"That serveth you, and will do all his life.\n" +"And if that you shall ever be a wife,\n" +"Forget not Palamon, the gentle man.\"\n" +"\n" +"And with that word his speech to fail began.\n" +"For from his feet up to his breast was come\n" +"The cold of death, that had him overnome*. *overcome\n" +"And yet moreover in his armes two\n" +"The vital strength is lost, and all ago*. *gone\n" +"Only the intellect, withoute more,\n" +"That dwelled in his hearte sick and sore,\n" +"Gan faile, when the hearte felte death;\n" +"Dusked* his eyen two, and fail'd his breath. *grew dim\n" +"But on his lady yet he cast his eye;\n" +"His laste word was; \"Mercy, Emily!\"\n" +"His spirit changed house, and wente there,\n" +"As I came never I cannot telle where.<84>\n" +"Therefore I stent*, I am no divinister**; *refrain **diviner\n" +"Of soules find I nought in this register.\n" +"Ne me list not th' opinions to tell\n" +"Of them, though that they writen where they dwell;\n" +"Arcite is cold, there Mars his soule gie.* *guide\n" +"Now will I speake forth of Emily.\n" +"\n" +"Shriek'd Emily, and howled Palamon,\n" +"And Theseus his sister took anon\n" +"Swooning, and bare her from the corpse away.\n" +"What helpeth it to tarry forth the day,\n" +"To telle how she wept both eve and morrow?\n" +"For in such cases women have such sorrow,\n" +"When that their husbands be from them y-go*, *gone\n" +"That for the more part they sorrow so,\n" +"Or elles fall into such malady,\n" +"That at the laste certainly they die.\n" +"Infinite be the sorrows and the tears\n" +"Of olde folk, and folk of tender years,\n" +"In all the town, for death of this Theban:\n" +"For him there weepeth bothe child and man.\n" +"So great a weeping was there none certain,\n" +"When Hector was y-brought, all fresh y-slain,\n" +"To Troy: alas! the pity that was there,\n" +"Scratching of cheeks, and rending eke of hair.\n" +"\"Why wouldest thou be dead?\" these women cry,\n" +"\"And haddest gold enough, and Emily.\"\n" +"No manner man might gladden Theseus,\n" +"Saving his olde father Egeus,\n" +"That knew this worlde's transmutatioun,\n" +"As he had seen it changen up and down,\n" +"Joy after woe, and woe after gladness;\n" +"And shewed him example and likeness.\n" +"\"Right as there died never man,\" quoth he,\n" +"\"That he ne liv'd in earth in some degree*, *rank, condition\n" +"Right so there lived never man,\" he said,\n" +"\"In all this world, that sometime be not died.\n" +"This world is but a throughfare full of woe,\n" +"And we be pilgrims, passing to and fro:\n" +"Death is an end of every worldly sore.\"\n" +"And over all this said he yet much more\n" +"To this effect, full wisely to exhort\n" +"The people, that they should them recomfort.\n" +"Duke Theseus, with all his busy cure*, *care\n" +"*Casteth about*, where that the sepulture *deliberates*\n" +"Of good Arcite may best y-maked be,\n" +"And eke most honourable in his degree.\n" +"And at the last he took conclusion,\n" +"That there as first Arcite and Palamon\n" +"Hadde for love the battle them between,\n" +"That in that selve* grove, sweet and green, *self-same\n" +"There as he had his amorous desires,\n" +"His complaint, and for love his hote fires,\n" +"He woulde make a fire*, in which th' office *funeral pyre\n" +"Of funeral he might all accomplice;\n" +"And *let anon command* to hack and hew *immediately gave orders*\n" +"The oakes old, and lay them *on a rew* *in a row*\n" +"In culpons*, well arrayed for to brenne**. *logs **burn\n" +"His officers with swifte feet they renne* *run\n" +"And ride anon at his commandement.\n" +"And after this, Duke Theseus hath sent\n" +"After a bier, and it all oversprad\n" +"With cloth of gold, the richest that he had;\n" +"And of the same suit he clad Arcite.\n" +"Upon his handes were his gloves white,\n" +"Eke on his head a crown of laurel green,\n" +"And in his hand a sword full bright and keen.\n" +"He laid him *bare the visage* on the bier, *with face uncovered*\n" +"Therewith he wept, that pity was to hear.\n" +"And, for the people shoulde see him all,\n" +"When it was day he brought them to the hall,\n" +"That roareth of the crying and the soun'.\n" +"Then came this woful Theban, Palamon,\n" +"With sluttery beard, and ruggy ashy hairs,<85>\n" +"In clothes black, y-dropped all with tears,\n" +"And (passing over weeping Emily)\n" +"The ruefullest of all the company.\n" +"And *inasmuch as* the service should be *in order that*\n" +"The more noble and rich in its degree,\n" +"Duke Theseus let forth three steedes bring,\n" +"That trapped were in steel all glittering.\n" +"And covered with the arms of Dan Arcite.\n" +"Upon these steedes, that were great and white,\n" +"There satte folk, of whom one bare his shield,\n" +"Another his spear in his handes held;\n" +}; +prog_char knightsTale4[] PROGMEM= { +"The thirde bare with him his bow Turkeis*, *Turkish.\n" +"Of brent* gold was the case** and the harness: *burnished **quiver\n" +"And ride forth *a pace* with sorrowful cheer** *at a foot pace*\n" +"Toward the grove, as ye shall after hear. **expression\n" +"\n" +"The noblest of the Greekes that there were\n" +"Upon their shoulders carried the bier,\n" +"With slacke pace, and eyen red and wet,\n" +"Throughout the city, by the master* street, *main <86>\n" +"That spread was all with black, and wondrous high\n" +"Right of the same is all the street y-wrie.* *covered <87>\n" +"Upon the right hand went old Egeus,\n" +"And on the other side Duke Theseus,\n" +"With vessels in their hand of gold full fine,\n" +"All full of honey, milk, and blood, and wine;\n" +"Eke Palamon, with a great company;\n" +"And after that came woful Emily,\n" +"With fire in hand, as was that time the guise*, *custom\n" +"To do th' office of funeral service.\n" +"\n" +"High labour, and full great appareling* *preparation\n" +"Was at the service, and the pyre-making,\n" +"That with its greene top the heaven raught*, *reached\n" +"And twenty fathom broad its armes straught*: *stretched\n" +"This is to say, the boughes were so broad.\n" +"Of straw first there was laid many a load.\n" +"But how the pyre was maked up on height,\n" +"And eke the names how the trees hight*, *were called\n" +"As oak, fir, birch, asp*, alder, holm, poplere, *aspen\n" +"Willow, elm, plane, ash, box, chestnut, lind*, laurere, *linden, lime\n" +"Maple, thorn, beech, hazel, yew, whipul tree,\n" +"How they were fell'd, shall not be told for me;\n" +"Nor how the goddes* rannen up and down *the forest deities\n" +"Disinherited of their habitatioun,\n" +"In which they wonned* had in rest and peace, *dwelt\n" +"Nymphes, Faunes, and Hamadryades;\n" +"Nor how the beastes and the birdes all\n" +"Fledden for feare, when the wood gan fall;\n" +"Nor how the ground aghast* was of the light, *terrified\n" +"That was not wont to see the sunne bright;\n" +"Nor how the fire was couched* first with stre**, *laid **straw\n" +"And then with dry stickes cloven in three,\n" +"And then with greene wood and spicery*, *spices\n" +"And then with cloth of gold and with pierrie*, *precious stones\n" +"And garlands hanging with full many a flower,\n" +"The myrrh, the incense with so sweet odour;\n" +"Nor how Arcita lay among all this,\n" +"Nor what richess about his body is;\n" +"Nor how that Emily, as was the guise*, *custom\n" +"*Put in the fire* of funeral service<88>; *appplied the torch*\n" +"Nor how she swooned when she made the fire,\n" +"Nor what she spake, nor what was her desire;\n" +"Nor what jewels men in the fire then cast\n" +"When that the fire was great and burned fast;\n" +"\n" +"Nor how some cast their shield, and some their spear,\n" +"And of their vestiments, which that they wear,\n" +"And cuppes full of wine, and milk, and blood,\n" +"Into the fire, that burnt as it were wood*; *mad\n" +"Nor how the Greekes with a huge rout* *procession\n" +"Three times riden all the fire about <89>\n" +"Upon the left hand, with a loud shouting,\n" +"And thries with their speares clattering;\n" +"And thries how the ladies gan to cry;\n" +"Nor how that led was homeward Emily;\n" +"Nor how Arcite is burnt to ashes cold;\n" +"Nor how the lyke-wake* was y-hold *wake <90>\n" +"All thilke* night, nor how the Greekes play *that\n" +"The wake-plays*, ne keep** I not to say: *funeral games **care\n" +"Who wrestled best naked, with oil anoint,\n" +"Nor who that bare him best *in no disjoint*. *in any contest*\n" +"I will not tell eke how they all are gone\n" +"Home to Athenes when the play is done;\n" +"But shortly to the point now will I wend*, *come\n" +"And maken of my longe tale an end.\n" +"\n" +"By process and by length of certain years\n" +"All stinted* is the mourning and the tears *ended\n" +"Of Greekes, by one general assent.\n" +"Then seemed me there was a parlement\n" +"At Athens, upon certain points and cas*: *cases\n" +"Amonge the which points y-spoken was\n" +"To have with certain countries alliance,\n" +"And have of Thebans full obeisance.\n" +"For which this noble Theseus anon\n" +"Let* send after the gentle Palamon, *caused\n" +"Unwist* of him what was the cause and why: *unknown\n" +"But in his blacke clothes sorrowfully\n" +"He came at his commandment *on hie*; *in haste*\n" +"Then sente Theseus for Emily.\n" +"When they were set*, and hush'd was all the place *seated\n" +"And Theseus abided* had a space *waited\n" +"Ere any word came from his wise breast\n" +"*His eyen set he there as was his lest*, *he cast his eyes\n" +"And with a sad visage he sighed still, wherever he pleased*\n" +"And after that right thus he said his will.\n" +"\"The firste mover of the cause above\n" +"When he first made the faire chain of love,\n" +"Great was th' effect, and high was his intent;\n" +"Well wist he why, and what thereof he meant:\n" +"For with that faire chain of love he bond* *bound\n" +"The fire, the air, the water, and the lond\n" +"In certain bondes, that they may not flee:<91>\n" +"That same prince and mover eke,\" quoth he,\n" +"\"Hath stablish'd, in this wretched world adown,\n" +"Certain of dayes and duration\n" +"To all that are engender'd in this place,\n" +"Over the whiche day they may not pace*, *pass\n" +"All may they yet their dayes well abridge.\n" +"There needeth no authority to allege\n" +"For it is proved by experience;\n" +"But that me list declare my sentence*. *opinion\n" +"Then may men by this order well discern,\n" +"That thilke* mover stable is and etern. *the same\n" +"Well may men know, but that it be a fool,\n" +"That every part deriveth from its whole.\n" +"For nature hath not ta'en its beginning\n" +"Of no *partie nor cantle* of a thing, *part or piece*\n" +"But of a thing that perfect is and stable,\n" +"Descending so, till it be corruptable.\n" +"And therefore of His wise purveyance* *providence\n" +"He hath so well beset* his ordinance,\n" +"That species of things and progressions\n" +"Shallen endure by successions,\n" +"And not etern, withouten any lie:\n" +"This mayst thou understand and see at eye.\n" +"Lo th' oak, that hath so long a nourishing\n" +"From the time that it 'ginneth first to spring,\n" +"And hath so long a life, as ye may see,\n" +"Yet at the last y-wasted is the tree.\n" +"Consider eke, how that the harde stone\n" +"Under our feet, on which we tread and gon*, *walk\n" +"Yet wasteth, as it lieth by the way.\n" +"The broade river some time waxeth drey*. *dry\n" +"The greate townes see we wane and wend*. *go, disappear\n" +"Then may ye see that all things have an end.\n" +"Of man and woman see we well also, --\n" +"That needes in one of the termes two, --\n" +"That is to say, in youth or else in age,-\n" +"He must be dead, the king as shall a page;\n" +"Some in his bed, some in the deepe sea,\n" +"Some in the large field, as ye may see:\n" +"There helpeth nought, all go that ilke* way: *same\n" +"Then may I say that alle thing must die.\n" +"What maketh this but Jupiter the king?\n" +"The which is prince, and cause of alle thing,\n" +"Converting all unto his proper will,\n" +"From which it is derived, sooth to tell\n" +"And hereagainst no creature alive,\n" +"Of no degree, availeth for to strive.\n" +"Then is it wisdom, as it thinketh me,\n" +"To make a virtue of necessity,\n" +"And take it well, that we may not eschew*, *escape\n" +"And namely what to us all is due.\n" +"And whoso grudgeth* ought, he doth folly, *murmurs at\n" +"And rebel is to him that all may gie*. *direct, guide\n" +"And certainly a man hath most honour\n" +"To dien in his excellence and flower,\n" +"When he is sicker* of his goode name. *certain\n" +"Then hath he done his friend, nor him*, no shame *himself\n" +"And gladder ought his friend be of his death,\n" +"When with honour is yielded up his breath,\n" +"Than when his name *appalled is for age*; *decayed by old age*\n" +"For all forgotten is his vassalage*. *valour, service\n" +"Then is it best, as for a worthy fame,\n" +"To dien when a man is best of name.\n" +"The contrary of all this is wilfulness.\n" +"Why grudge we, why have we heaviness,\n" +"That good Arcite, of chivalry the flower,\n" +"Departed is, with duty and honour,\n" +"Out of this foule prison of this life?\n" +"Why grudge here his cousin and his wife\n" +"Of his welfare, that loved him so well?\n" +"Can he them thank? nay, God wot, neverdeal*, -- *not a jot\n" +"That both his soul and eke themselves offend*, *hurt\n" +"And yet they may their lustes* not amend**. *desires **control\n" +"What may I conclude of this longe serie*, *string of remarks\n" +"But after sorrow I rede* us to be merry, *counsel\n" +"And thanke Jupiter for all his grace?\n" +"And ere that we departe from this place,\n" +"I rede that we make of sorrows two\n" +"One perfect joye lasting evermo':\n" +"And look now where most sorrow is herein,\n" +"There will I first amenden and begin.\n" +"\"Sister,\" quoth he, \"this is my full assent,\n" +"With all th' advice here of my parlement,\n" +"That gentle Palamon, your owen knight,\n" +"That serveth you with will, and heart, and might,\n" +"And ever hath, since first time ye him knew,\n" +"That ye shall of your grace upon him rue*, *take pity\n" +"And take him for your husband and your lord:\n" +"Lend me your hand, for this is our accord.\n" +"*Let see* now of your womanly pity. *make display*\n" +"He is a kinge's brother's son, pardie*. *by God\n" +"And though he were a poore bachelere,\n" +"Since he hath served you so many a year,\n" +"And had for you so great adversity,\n" +"It muste be considered, *'lieveth me*. *believe me*\n" +"For gentle mercy *oweth to passen right*.\" *ought to be rightly\n" +"Then said he thus to Palamon the knight; directed*\n" +"\"I trow there needeth little sermoning\n" +"To make you assente to this thing.\n" +"Come near, and take your lady by the hand.\"\n" +"Betwixte them was made anon the band,\n" +"That hight matrimony or marriage,\n" +"By all the counsel of the baronage.\n" +"And thus with alle bliss and melody\n" +"Hath Palamon y-wedded Emily.\n" +"And God, that all this wide world hath wrought,\n" +"Send him his love, that hath it dearly bought.\n" +"For now is Palamon in all his weal,\n" +"Living in bliss, in riches, and in heal*. *health\n" +"And Emily him loves so tenderly,\n" +"And he her serveth all so gentilly,\n" +"That never was there worde them between\n" +"Of jealousy, nor of none other teen*. *cause of anger\n" +"Thus endeth Palamon and Emily\n" +"And God save all this faire company.\n" +}; + +void setup() { + int i=0; + uint8_t c; + Serial.begin(9600); + do { + c = pgm_read_byte(knightsTale+i); + if (c) Serial.print(c,BYTE); + i++; + } while (c); + do { + c = pgm_read_byte(knightsTale2+i); + if (c) Serial.print(c,BYTE); + i++; + } while (c); + do { + c = pgm_read_byte(knightsTale3+i); + if (c) Serial.print(c,BYTE); + i++; + } while (c); +} +void loop() { +} diff --git a/optiboot/examples/chaucer16k/chaucer16k.pde b/optiboot/examples/chaucer16k/chaucer16k.pde new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d10881 --- /dev/null +++ b/optiboot/examples/chaucer16k/chaucer16k.pde @@ -0,0 +1,306 @@ +// Text is an extract from The Canterbury Tales +// Full text at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/cbtls12.txt +#include + +prog_char knightsTale[] PROGMEM= { +" THE KNIGHT'S TALE <1>\n" +"\n" +"\n" +"WHILOM*, as olde stories tellen us, *formerly\n" +"There was a duke that highte* Theseus. *was called <2>\n" +"Of Athens he was lord and governor,\n" +"And in his time such a conqueror\n" +"That greater was there none under the sun.\n" +"Full many a riche country had he won.\n" +"What with his wisdom and his chivalry,\n" +"He conquer'd all the regne of Feminie,<3>\n" +"That whilom was y-cleped Scythia;\n" +"And weddede the Queen Hippolyta\n" +"And brought her home with him to his country\n" +"With muchel* glory and great solemnity, *great\n" +"And eke her younge sister Emily,\n" +"And thus with vict'ry and with melody\n" +"Let I this worthy Duke to Athens ride,\n" +"And all his host, in armes him beside.\n" +"\n" +"And certes, if it n'ere* too long to hear, *were not\n" +"I would have told you fully the mannere,\n" +"How wonnen* was the regne of Feminie, <4> *won\n" +"By Theseus, and by his chivalry;\n" +"And of the greate battle for the nonce\n" +"Betwixt Athenes and the Amazons;\n" +"And how assieged was Hippolyta,\n" +"The faire hardy queen of Scythia;\n" +"And of the feast that was at her wedding\n" +"And of the tempest at her homecoming.\n" +"But all these things I must as now forbear.\n" +"I have, God wot, a large field to ear* *plough<5>;\n" +"And weake be the oxen in my plough;\n" +"The remnant of my tale is long enow.\n" +"I will not *letten eke none of this rout*. *hinder any of\n" +"Let every fellow tell his tale about, this company*\n" +"And let see now who shall the supper win.\n" +"There *as I left*, I will again begin. *where I left off*\n" +"\n" +"This Duke, of whom I make mentioun,\n" +"When he was come almost unto the town,\n" +"In all his weal, and in his moste pride,\n" +"He was ware, as he cast his eye aside,\n" +"Where that there kneeled in the highe way\n" +"A company of ladies, tway and tway,\n" +"Each after other, clad in clothes black:\n" +"But such a cry and such a woe they make,\n" +"That in this world n'is creature living,\n" +"That hearde such another waimenting* *lamenting <6>\n" +"And of this crying would they never stenten*, *desist\n" +"Till they the reines of his bridle henten*. *seize\n" +"\"What folk be ye that at mine homecoming\n" +"Perturben so my feaste with crying?\"\n" +"Quoth Theseus; \"Have ye so great envy\n" +"Of mine honour, that thus complain and cry?\n" +"Or who hath you misboden*, or offended? *wronged\n" +"Do telle me, if it may be amended;\n" +"And why that ye be clad thus all in black?\"\n" +"\n" +"The oldest lady of them all then spake,\n" +"When she had swooned, with a deadly cheer*, *countenance\n" +"That it was ruthe* for to see or hear. *pity\n" +"She saide; \"Lord, to whom fortune hath given\n" +"Vict'ry, and as a conqueror to liven,\n" +"Nought grieveth us your glory and your honour;\n" +"But we beseechen mercy and succour.\n" +"Have mercy on our woe and our distress;\n" +"Some drop of pity, through thy gentleness,\n" +"Upon us wretched women let now fall.\n" +"For certes, lord, there is none of us all\n" +"That hath not been a duchess or a queen;\n" +"Now be we caitives*, as it is well seen: *captives\n" +"Thanked be Fortune, and her false wheel,\n" +"That *none estate ensureth to be wele*. *assures no continuance of\n" +"And certes, lord, t'abiden your presence prosperous estate*\n" +"Here in this temple of the goddess Clemence\n" +"We have been waiting all this fortenight:\n" +"Now help us, lord, since it lies in thy might.\n" +"\n" +"\"I, wretched wight, that weep and waile thus,\n" +"Was whilom wife to king Capaneus,\n" +"That starf* at Thebes, cursed be that day: *died <7>\n" +"And alle we that be in this array,\n" +"And maken all this lamentatioun,\n" +"We losten all our husbands at that town,\n" +"While that the siege thereabouten lay.\n" +"And yet the olde Creon, wellaway!\n" +"That lord is now of Thebes the city,\n" +"Fulfilled of ire and of iniquity,\n" +"He for despite, and for his tyranny,\n" +"To do the deade bodies villainy*, *insult\n" +"Of all our lorde's, which that been y-slaw, *slain\n" +"Hath all the bodies on an heap y-draw,\n" +"And will not suffer them by none assent\n" +"Neither to be y-buried, nor y-brent*, *burnt\n" +"But maketh houndes eat them in despite.\"\n" +"And with that word, withoute more respite\n" +"They fallen groff,* and cryden piteously; *grovelling\n" +"\"Have on us wretched women some mercy,\n" +"And let our sorrow sinken in thine heart.\"\n" +"\n" +"This gentle Duke down from his courser start\n" +"With hearte piteous, when he heard them speak.\n" +"Him thoughte that his heart would all to-break,\n" +"When he saw them so piteous and so mate* *abased\n" +"That whilom weren of so great estate.\n" +"And in his armes he them all up hent*, *raised, took\n" +"And them comforted in full good intent,\n" +"And swore his oath, as he was true knight,\n" +"He woulde do *so farforthly his might* *as far as his power went*\n" +"Upon the tyrant Creon them to wreak*, *avenge\n" +"That all the people of Greece shoulde speak,\n" +"How Creon was of Theseus y-served,\n" +"As he that had his death full well deserved.\n" +"And right anon withoute more abode* *delay\n" +"His banner he display'd, and forth he rode\n" +"To Thebes-ward, and all his, host beside:\n" +"No ner* Athenes would he go nor ride, *nearer\n" +"Nor take his ease fully half a day,\n" +"But onward on his way that night he lay:\n" +"And sent anon Hippolyta the queen,\n" +"And Emily her younge sister sheen* *bright, lovely\n" +"Unto the town of Athens for to dwell:\n" +"And forth he rit*; there is no more to tell. *rode\n" +"\n" +"The red statue of Mars with spear and targe* *shield\n" +"So shineth in his white banner large\n" +"That all the fieldes glitter up and down:\n" +"And by his banner borne is his pennon\n" +"Of gold full rich, in which there was y-beat* *stamped\n" +"The Minotaur<8> which that he slew in Crete\n" +"Thus rit this Duke, thus rit this conqueror\n" +"And in his host of chivalry the flower,\n" +"Till that he came to Thebes, and alight\n" +"Fair in a field, there as he thought to fight.\n" +"But shortly for to speaken of this thing,\n" +"With Creon, which that was of Thebes king,\n" +"He fought, and slew him manly as a knight\n" +"In plain bataille, and put his folk to flight:\n" +"And by assault he won the city after,\n" +"And rent adown both wall, and spar, and rafter;\n" +"And to the ladies he restored again\n" +"The bodies of their husbands that were slain,\n" +"To do obsequies, as was then the guise*. *custom\n" +"\n" +"But it were all too long for to devise* *describe\n" +"The greate clamour, and the waimenting*, *lamenting\n" +"Which that the ladies made at the brenning* *burning\n" +"Of the bodies, and the great honour\n" +"That Theseus the noble conqueror\n" +"Did to the ladies, when they from him went:\n" +"But shortly for to tell is mine intent.\n" +"When that this worthy Duke, this Theseus,\n" +"Had Creon slain, and wonnen Thebes thus,\n" +"Still in the field he took all night his rest,\n" +"And did with all the country as him lest*. *pleased\n" +"To ransack in the tas* of bodies dead, *heap\n" +"Them for to strip of *harness and of **weed, *armour **clothes\n" +"The pillers* did their business and cure, *pillagers <9>\n" +"After the battle and discomfiture.\n" +"And so befell, that in the tas they found,\n" +"Through girt with many a grievous bloody wound,\n" +"Two younge knightes *ligging by and by* *lying side by side*\n" +"Both in *one armes*, wrought full richely: *the same armour*\n" +"Of whiche two, Arcita hight that one,\n" +"And he that other highte Palamon.\n" +"Not fully quick*, nor fully dead they were, *alive\n" +"But by their coat-armour, and by their gear,\n" +"The heralds knew them well in special,\n" +"As those that weren of the blood royal\n" +"Of Thebes, and *of sistren two y-born*. *born of two sisters*\n" +"Out of the tas the pillers have them torn,\n" +"And have them carried soft unto the tent\n" +"Of Theseus, and he full soon them sent\n" +"To Athens, for to dwellen in prison\n" +"Perpetually, he *n'olde no ranson*. *would take no ransom*\n" +"And when this worthy Duke had thus y-done,\n" +"He took his host, and home he rit anon\n" +"With laurel crowned as a conquerour;\n" +"And there he lived in joy and in honour\n" +"Term of his life; what needeth wordes mo'?\n" +"And in a tower, in anguish and in woe,\n" +"Dwellen this Palamon, and eke Arcite,\n" +"For evermore, there may no gold them quite* *set free\n" +"\n" +"Thus passed year by year, and day by day,\n" +"Till it fell ones in a morn of May\n" +"That Emily, that fairer was to seen\n" +"Than is the lily upon his stalke green,\n" +"And fresher than the May with flowers new\n" +"(For with the rose colour strove her hue;\n" +"I n'ot* which was the finer of them two), *know not\n" +"Ere it was day, as she was wont to do,\n" +"She was arisen, and all ready dight*, *dressed\n" +"For May will have no sluggardy a-night;\n" +"The season pricketh every gentle heart,\n" +"And maketh him out of his sleep to start,\n" +"And saith, \"Arise, and do thine observance.\"\n" +"\n" +"This maketh Emily have remembrance\n" +"To do honour to May, and for to rise.\n" +"Y-clothed was she fresh for to devise;\n" +"Her yellow hair was braided in a tress,\n" +"Behind her back, a yarde long I guess.\n" +"And in the garden at *the sun uprist* *sunrise\n" +"She walketh up and down where as her list.\n" +"She gathereth flowers, party* white and red, *mingled\n" +"To make a sotel* garland for her head, *subtle, well-arranged\n" +"And as an angel heavenly she sung.\n" +"The greate tower, that was so thick and strong,\n" +"Which of the castle was the chief dungeon<10>\n" +"(Where as these knightes weren in prison,\n" +"Of which I tolde you, and telle shall),\n" +"Was even joinant* to the garden wall, *adjoining\n" +"There as this Emily had her playing.\n" +"\n" +"Bright was the sun, and clear that morrowning,\n" +"And Palamon, this woful prisoner,\n" +"As was his wont, by leave of his gaoler,\n" +"Was ris'n, and roamed in a chamber on high,\n" +"In which he all the noble city sigh*, *saw\n" +"And eke the garden, full of branches green,\n" +"There as this fresh Emelia the sheen\n" +"Was in her walk, and roamed up and down.\n" +"This sorrowful prisoner, this Palamon\n" +"Went in his chamber roaming to and fro,\n" +"And to himself complaining of his woe:\n" +"That he was born, full oft he said, Alas!\n" +"And so befell, by aventure or cas*, *chance\n" +"That through a window thick of many a bar\n" +"Of iron great, and square as any spar,\n" +"He cast his eyes upon Emelia,\n" +"And therewithal he blent* and cried, Ah! *started aside\n" +"As though he stungen were unto the heart.\n" +"And with that cry Arcite anon up start,\n" +"And saide, \"Cousin mine, what aileth thee,\n" +"That art so pale and deadly for to see?\n" +"Why cried'st thou? who hath thee done offence?\n" +"For Godde's love, take all in patience\n" +"Our prison*, for it may none other be. *imprisonment\n" +"Fortune hath giv'n us this adversity'.\n" +"Some wick'* aspect or disposition *wicked\n" +"Of Saturn<11>, by some constellation,\n" +"Hath giv'n us this, although we had it sworn,\n" +"So stood the heaven when that we were born,\n" +"We must endure; this is the short and plain.\n" +"\n" +"This Palamon answer'd, and said again:\n" +"\"Cousin, forsooth of this opinion\n" +"Thou hast a vain imagination.\n" +"This prison caused me not for to cry;\n" +"But I was hurt right now thorough mine eye\n" +"Into mine heart; that will my bane* be. *destruction\n" +"The fairness of the lady that I see\n" +"Yond in the garden roaming to and fro,\n" +"Is cause of all my crying and my woe.\n" +"I *n'ot wher* she be woman or goddess, *know not whether*\n" +"But Venus is it, soothly* as I guess, *truly\n" +"And therewithal on knees adown he fill,\n" +"And saide: \"Venus, if it be your will\n" +"You in this garden thus to transfigure\n" +"Before me sorrowful wretched creature,\n" +"Out of this prison help that we may scape.\n" +"And if so be our destiny be shape\n" +"By etern word to dien in prison,\n" +"Of our lineage have some compassion,\n" +"That is so low y-brought by tyranny.\"\n" +"\n" +"And with that word Arcita *gan espy* *began to look forth*\n" +"Where as this lady roamed to and fro\n" +"And with that sight her beauty hurt him so,\n" +"That if that Palamon was wounded sore,\n" +"Arcite is hurt as much as he, or more.\n" +"And with a sigh he saide piteously:\n" +"\"The freshe beauty slay'th me suddenly\n" +"Of her that roameth yonder in the place.\n" +"And but* I have her mercy and her grace, *unless\n" +"That I may see her at the leaste way,\n" +"I am but dead; there is no more to say.\"\n" +"This Palamon, when he these wordes heard,\n" +"Dispiteously* he looked, and answer'd: *angrily\n" +"\"Whether say'st thou this in earnest or in play?\"\n" +"\"Nay,\" quoth Arcite, \"in earnest, by my fay*. *faith\n" +"God help me so, *me lust full ill to play*.\" *I am in no humour\n" +"This Palamon gan knit his browes tway. for jesting*\n" +"\"It were,\" quoth he, \"to thee no great honour\n" +"For to be false, nor for to be traitour\n" +}; + +void setup() { + int i=0; + uint8_t c; + Serial.begin(9600); + do { + c = pgm_read_byte(knightsTale+i); + if (c) Serial.print(c,BYTE); + i++; + } while (c); +} +void loop() { +} diff --git a/optiboot/examples/chaucer32k/chaucer32k.pde b/optiboot/examples/chaucer32k/chaucer32k.pde new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cc61dfb --- /dev/null +++ b/optiboot/examples/chaucer32k/chaucer32k.pde @@ -0,0 +1,679 @@ +// Text is an extract from The Canterbury Tales +// Full text at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/cbtls12.txt +#include + +prog_char knightsTale[] PROGMEM= { +" THE KNIGHT'S TALE <1>\n" +"\n" +"\n" +"WHILOM*, as olde stories tellen us, *formerly\n" +"There was a duke that highte* Theseus. *was called <2>\n" +"Of Athens he was lord and governor,\n" +"And in his time such a conqueror\n" +"That greater was there none under the sun.\n" +"Full many a riche country had he won.\n" +"What with his wisdom and his chivalry,\n" +"He conquer'd all the regne of Feminie,<3>\n" +"That whilom was y-cleped Scythia;\n" +"And weddede the Queen Hippolyta\n" +"And brought her home with him to his country\n" +"With muchel* glory and great solemnity, *great\n" +"And eke her younge sister Emily,\n" +"And thus with vict'ry and with melody\n" +"Let I this worthy Duke to Athens ride,\n" +"And all his host, in armes him beside.\n" +"\n" +"And certes, if it n'ere* too long to hear, *were not\n" +"I would have told you fully the mannere,\n" +"How wonnen* was the regne of Feminie, <4> *won\n" +"By Theseus, and by his chivalry;\n" +"And of the greate battle for the nonce\n" +"Betwixt Athenes and the Amazons;\n" +"And how assieged was Hippolyta,\n" +"The faire hardy queen of Scythia;\n" +"And of the feast that was at her wedding\n" +"And of the tempest at her homecoming.\n" +"But all these things I must as now forbear.\n" +"I have, God wot, a large field to ear* *plough<5>;\n" +"And weake be the oxen in my plough;\n" +"The remnant of my tale is long enow.\n" +"I will not *letten eke none of this rout*. *hinder any of\n" +"Let every fellow tell his tale about, this company*\n" +"And let see now who shall the supper win.\n" +"There *as I left*, I will again begin. *where I left off*\n" +"\n" +"This Duke, of whom I make mentioun,\n" +"When he was come almost unto the town,\n" +"In all his weal, and in his moste pride,\n" +"He was ware, as he cast his eye aside,\n" +"Where that there kneeled in the highe way\n" +"A company of ladies, tway and tway,\n" +"Each after other, clad in clothes black:\n" +"But such a cry and such a woe they make,\n" +"That in this world n'is creature living,\n" +"That hearde such another waimenting* *lamenting <6>\n" +"And of this crying would they never stenten*, *desist\n" +"Till they the reines of his bridle henten*. *seize\n" +"\"What folk be ye that at mine homecoming\n" +"Perturben so my feaste with crying?\"\n" +"Quoth Theseus; \"Have ye so great envy\n" +"Of mine honour, that thus complain and cry?\n" +"Or who hath you misboden*, or offended? *wronged\n" +"Do telle me, if it may be amended;\n" +"And why that ye be clad thus all in black?\"\n" +"\n" +"The oldest lady of them all then spake,\n" +"When she had swooned, with a deadly cheer*, *countenance\n" +"That it was ruthe* for to see or hear. *pity\n" +"She saide; \"Lord, to whom fortune hath given\n" +"Vict'ry, and as a conqueror to liven,\n" +"Nought grieveth us your glory and your honour;\n" +"But we beseechen mercy and succour.\n" +"Have mercy on our woe and our distress;\n" +"Some drop of pity, through thy gentleness,\n" +"Upon us wretched women let now fall.\n" +"For certes, lord, there is none of us all\n" +"That hath not been a duchess or a queen;\n" +"Now be we caitives*, as it is well seen: *captives\n" +"Thanked be Fortune, and her false wheel,\n" +"That *none estate ensureth to be wele*. *assures no continuance of\n" +"And certes, lord, t'abiden your presence prosperous estate*\n" +"Here in this temple of the goddess Clemence\n" +"We have been waiting all this fortenight:\n" +"Now help us, lord, since it lies in thy might.\n" +"\n" +"\"I, wretched wight, that weep and waile thus,\n" +"Was whilom wife to king Capaneus,\n" +"That starf* at Thebes, cursed be that day: *died <7>\n" +"And alle we that be in this array,\n" +"And maken all this lamentatioun,\n" +"We losten all our husbands at that town,\n" +"While that the siege thereabouten lay.\n" +"And yet the olde Creon, wellaway!\n" +"That lord is now of Thebes the city,\n" +"Fulfilled of ire and of iniquity,\n" +"He for despite, and for his tyranny,\n" +"To do the deade bodies villainy*, *insult\n" +"Of all our lorde's, which that been y-slaw, *slain\n" +"Hath all the bodies on an heap y-draw,\n" +"And will not suffer them by none assent\n" +"Neither to be y-buried, nor y-brent*, *burnt\n" +"But maketh houndes eat them in despite.\"\n" +"And with that word, withoute more respite\n" +"They fallen groff,* and cryden piteously; *grovelling\n" +"\"Have on us wretched women some mercy,\n" +"And let our sorrow sinken in thine heart.\"\n" +"\n" +"This gentle Duke down from his courser start\n" +"With hearte piteous, when he heard them speak.\n" +"Him thoughte that his heart would all to-break,\n" +"When he saw them so piteous and so mate* *abased\n" +"That whilom weren of so great estate.\n" +"And in his armes he them all up hent*, *raised, took\n" +"And them comforted in full good intent,\n" +"And swore his oath, as he was true knight,\n" +"He woulde do *so farforthly his might* *as far as his power went*\n" +"Upon the tyrant Creon them to wreak*, *avenge\n" +"That all the people of Greece shoulde speak,\n" +"How Creon was of Theseus y-served,\n" +"As he that had his death full well deserved.\n" +"And right anon withoute more abode* *delay\n" +"His banner he display'd, and forth he rode\n" +"To Thebes-ward, and all his, host beside:\n" +"No ner* Athenes would he go nor ride, *nearer\n" +"Nor take his ease fully half a day,\n" +"But onward on his way that night he lay:\n" +"And sent anon Hippolyta the queen,\n" +"And Emily her younge sister sheen* *bright, lovely\n" +"Unto the town of Athens for to dwell:\n" +"And forth he rit*; there is no more to tell. *rode\n" +"\n" +"The red statue of Mars with spear and targe* *shield\n" +"So shineth in his white banner large\n" +"That all the fieldes glitter up and down:\n" +"And by his banner borne is his pennon\n" +"Of gold full rich, in which there was y-beat* *stamped\n" +"The Minotaur<8> which that he slew in Crete\n" +"Thus rit this Duke, thus rit this conqueror\n" +"And in his host of chivalry the flower,\n" +"Till that he came to Thebes, and alight\n" +"Fair in a field, there as he thought to fight.\n" +"But shortly for to speaken of this thing,\n" +"With Creon, which that was of Thebes king,\n" +"He fought, and slew him manly as a knight\n" +"In plain bataille, and put his folk to flight:\n" +"And by assault he won the city after,\n" +"And rent adown both wall, and spar, and rafter;\n" +"And to the ladies he restored again\n" +"The bodies of their husbands that were slain,\n" +"To do obsequies, as was then the guise*. *custom\n" +"\n" +"But it were all too long for to devise* *describe\n" +"The greate clamour, and the waimenting*, *lamenting\n" +"Which that the ladies made at the brenning* *burning\n" +"Of the bodies, and the great honour\n" +"That Theseus the noble conqueror\n" +"Did to the ladies, when they from him went:\n" +"But shortly for to tell is mine intent.\n" +"When that this worthy Duke, this Theseus,\n" +"Had Creon slain, and wonnen Thebes thus,\n" +"Still in the field he took all night his rest,\n" +"And did with all the country as him lest*. *pleased\n" +"To ransack in the tas* of bodies dead, *heap\n" +"Them for to strip of *harness and of **weed, *armour **clothes\n" +"The pillers* did their business and cure, *pillagers <9>\n" +"After the battle and discomfiture.\n" +"And so befell, that in the tas they found,\n" +"Through girt with many a grievous bloody wound,\n" +"Two younge knightes *ligging by and by* *lying side by side*\n" +"Both in *one armes*, wrought full richely: *the same armour*\n" +"Of whiche two, Arcita hight that one,\n" +"And he that other highte Palamon.\n" +"Not fully quick*, nor fully dead they were, *alive\n" +"But by their coat-armour, and by their gear,\n" +"The heralds knew them well in special,\n" +"As those that weren of the blood royal\n" +"Of Thebes, and *of sistren two y-born*. *born of two sisters*\n" +"Out of the tas the pillers have them torn,\n" +"And have them carried soft unto the tent\n" +"Of Theseus, and he full soon them sent\n" +"To Athens, for to dwellen in prison\n" +"Perpetually, he *n'olde no ranson*. *would take no ransom*\n" +"And when this worthy Duke had thus y-done,\n" +"He took his host, and home he rit anon\n" +"With laurel crowned as a conquerour;\n" +"And there he lived in joy and in honour\n" +"Term of his life; what needeth wordes mo'?\n" +"And in a tower, in anguish and in woe,\n" +"Dwellen this Palamon, and eke Arcite,\n" +"For evermore, there may no gold them quite* *set free\n" +"\n" +"Thus passed year by year, and day by day,\n" +"Till it fell ones in a morn of May\n" +"That Emily, that fairer was to seen\n" +"Than is the lily upon his stalke green,\n" +"And fresher than the May with flowers new\n" +"(For with the rose colour strove her hue;\n" +"I n'ot* which was the finer of them two), *know not\n" +"Ere it was day, as she was wont to do,\n" +"She was arisen, and all ready dight*, *dressed\n" +"For May will have no sluggardy a-night;\n" +"The season pricketh every gentle heart,\n" +"And maketh him out of his sleep to start,\n" +"And saith, \"Arise, and do thine observance.\"\n" +"\n" +"This maketh Emily have remembrance\n" +"To do honour to May, and for to rise.\n" +"Y-clothed was she fresh for to devise;\n" +"Her yellow hair was braided in a tress,\n" +"Behind her back, a yarde long I guess.\n" +"And in the garden at *the sun uprist* *sunrise\n" +"She walketh up and down where as her list.\n" +"She gathereth flowers, party* white and red, *mingled\n" +"To make a sotel* garland for her head, *subtle, well-arranged\n" +"And as an angel heavenly she sung.\n" +"The greate tower, that was so thick and strong,\n" +"Which of the castle was the chief dungeon<10>\n" +"(Where as these knightes weren in prison,\n" +"Of which I tolde you, and telle shall),\n" +"Was even joinant* to the garden wall, *adjoining\n" +"There as this Emily had her playing.\n" +"\n" +"Bright was the sun, and clear that morrowning,\n" +"And Palamon, this woful prisoner,\n" +"As was his wont, by leave of his gaoler,\n" +"Was ris'n, and roamed in a chamber on high,\n" +"In which he all the noble city sigh*, *saw\n" +"And eke the garden, full of branches green,\n" +"There as this fresh Emelia the sheen\n" +"Was in her walk, and roamed up and down.\n" +"This sorrowful prisoner, this Palamon\n" +"Went in his chamber roaming to and fro,\n" +"And to himself complaining of his woe:\n" +"That he was born, full oft he said, Alas!\n" +"And so befell, by aventure or cas*, *chance\n" +"That through a window thick of many a bar\n" +"Of iron great, and square as any spar,\n" +"He cast his eyes upon Emelia,\n" +"And therewithal he blent* and cried, Ah! *started aside\n" +"As though he stungen were unto the heart.\n" +"And with that cry Arcite anon up start,\n" +"And saide, \"Cousin mine, what aileth thee,\n" +"That art so pale and deadly for to see?\n" +"Why cried'st thou? who hath thee done offence?\n" +"For Godde's love, take all in patience\n" +"Our prison*, for it may none other be. *imprisonment\n" +"Fortune hath giv'n us this adversity'.\n" +"Some wick'* aspect or disposition *wicked\n" +"Of Saturn<11>, by some constellation,\n" +"Hath giv'n us this, although we had it sworn,\n" +"So stood the heaven when that we were born,\n" +"We must endure; this is the short and plain.\n" +"\n" +"This Palamon answer'd, and said again:\n" +"\"Cousin, forsooth of this opinion\n" +"Thou hast a vain imagination.\n" +"This prison caused me not for to cry;\n" +"But I was hurt right now thorough mine eye\n" +"Into mine heart; that will my bane* be. *destruction\n" +"The fairness of the lady that I see\n" +"Yond in the garden roaming to and fro,\n" +"Is cause of all my crying and my woe.\n" +"I *n'ot wher* she be woman or goddess, *know not whether*\n" +"But Venus is it, soothly* as I guess, *truly\n" +"And therewithal on knees adown he fill,\n" +"And saide: \"Venus, if it be your will\n" +"You in this garden thus to transfigure\n" +"Before me sorrowful wretched creature,\n" +"Out of this prison help that we may scape.\n" +"And if so be our destiny be shape\n" +"By etern word to dien in prison,\n" +"Of our lineage have some compassion,\n" +"That is so low y-brought by tyranny.\"\n" +"\n" +"And with that word Arcita *gan espy* *began to look forth*\n" +"Where as this lady roamed to and fro\n" +"And with that sight her beauty hurt him so,\n" +"That if that Palamon was wounded sore,\n" +"Arcite is hurt as much as he, or more.\n" +"And with a sigh he saide piteously:\n" +"\"The freshe beauty slay'th me suddenly\n" +"Of her that roameth yonder in the place.\n" +"And but* I have her mercy and her grace, *unless\n" +"That I may see her at the leaste way,\n" +"I am but dead; there is no more to say.\"\n" +"This Palamon, when he these wordes heard,\n" +"Dispiteously* he looked, and answer'd: *angrily\n" +"\"Whether say'st thou this in earnest or in play?\"\n" +"\"Nay,\" quoth Arcite, \"in earnest, by my fay*. *faith\n" +"God help me so, *me lust full ill to play*.\" *I am in no humour\n" +"This Palamon gan knit his browes tway. for jesting*\n" +"\"It were,\" quoth he, \"to thee no great honour\n" +"For to be false, nor for to be traitour\n" +"To me, that am thy cousin and thy brother\n" +"Y-sworn full deep, and each of us to other,\n" +"That never for to dien in the pain <12>,\n" +"Till that the death departen shall us twain,\n" +"Neither of us in love to hinder other,\n" +"Nor in none other case, my leve* brother; *dear\n" +"But that thou shouldest truly farther me\n" +"In every case, as I should farther thee.\n" +"This was thine oath, and mine also certain;\n" +"I wot it well, thou dar'st it not withsayn*, *deny\n" +"Thus art thou of my counsel out of doubt,\n" +"And now thou wouldest falsely be about\n" +"To love my lady, whom I love and serve,\n" +"And ever shall, until mine hearte sterve* *die\n" +"Now certes, false Arcite, thou shalt not so\n" +"I lov'd her first, and tolde thee my woe\n" +"As to my counsel, and my brother sworn\n" +"To farther me, as I have told beforn.\n" +"For which thou art y-bounden as a knight\n" +"To helpe me, if it lie in thy might,\n" +"Or elles art thou false, I dare well sayn,\"\n" +"\n" +"This Arcita full proudly spake again:\n" +"\"Thou shalt,\" quoth he, \"be rather* false than I, *sooner\n" +"And thou art false, I tell thee utterly;\n" +"For par amour I lov'd her first ere thou.\n" +"What wilt thou say? *thou wist it not right now* *even now thou\n" +"Whether she be a woman or goddess. knowest not*\n" +"Thine is affection of holiness,\n" +"And mine is love, as to a creature:\n" +"For which I tolde thee mine aventure\n" +"As to my cousin, and my brother sworn\n" +"I pose*, that thou loved'st her beforn: *suppose\n" +"Wost* thou not well the olde clerke's saw<13>, *know'st\n" +"That who shall give a lover any law?\n" +"Love is a greater lawe, by my pan,\n" +"Than may be giv'n to any earthly man:\n" +"Therefore positive law, and such decree,\n" +"Is broke alway for love in each degree\n" +"A man must needes love, maugre his head.\n" +"He may not flee it, though he should be dead,\n" +"*All be she* maid, or widow, or else wife. *whether she be*\n" +"And eke it is not likely all thy life\n" +"To standen in her grace, no more than I\n" +"For well thou wost thyselfe verily,\n" +"That thou and I be damned to prison\n" +"Perpetual, us gaineth no ranson.\n" +"We strive, as did the houndes for the bone;\n" +"They fought all day, and yet their part was none.\n" +"There came a kite, while that they were so wroth,\n" +"And bare away the bone betwixt them both.\n" +"And therefore at the kinge's court, my brother,\n" +"Each man for himselfe, there is no other.\n" +"Love if thee list; for I love and aye shall\n" +"And soothly, leve brother, this is all.\n" +"Here in this prison musten we endure,\n" +"And each of us take his Aventure.\"\n" +"\n" +"Great was the strife and long between these tway,\n" +"If that I hadde leisure for to say;\n" +"But to the effect: it happen'd on a day\n" +"(To tell it you as shortly as I may),\n" +"A worthy duke that hight Perithous<14>\n" +"That fellow was to the Duke Theseus\n" +"Since thilke* day that they were children lite** *that **little\n" +"Was come to Athens, his fellow to visite,\n" +"And for to play, as he was wont to do;\n" +"For in this world he loved no man so;\n" +"And he lov'd him as tenderly again.\n" +"So well they lov'd, as olde bookes sayn,\n" +"That when that one was dead, soothly to sayn,\n" +"His fellow went and sought him down in hell:\n" +"But of that story list me not to write.\n" +"Duke Perithous loved well Arcite,\n" +"And had him known at Thebes year by year:\n" +"And finally at request and prayere\n" +"Of Perithous, withoute ranson\n" +"Duke Theseus him let out of prison,\n" +"Freely to go, where him list over all,\n" +"In such a guise, as I you tellen shall\n" +"This was the forword*, plainly to indite, *promise\n" +"Betwixte Theseus and him Arcite:\n" +"That if so were, that Arcite were y-found\n" +"Ever in his life, by day or night, one stound* *moment<15>\n" +"In any country of this Theseus,\n" +"And he were caught, it was accorded thus,\n" +"That with a sword he shoulde lose his head;\n" +"There was none other remedy nor rede*. *counsel\n" +"But took his leave, and homeward he him sped;\n" +"Let him beware, his necke lieth *to wed*. *in pledge*\n" +"\n" +"How great a sorrow suff'reth now Arcite!\n" +"The death he feeleth through his hearte smite;\n" +"He weepeth, waileth, crieth piteously;\n" +"To slay himself he waiteth privily.\n" +"He said; \"Alas the day that I was born!\n" +"Now is my prison worse than beforn:\n" +"*Now is me shape* eternally to dwell *it is fixed for me*\n" +"Not in purgatory, but right in hell.\n" +"Alas! that ever I knew Perithous.\n" +"For elles had I dwelt with Theseus\n" +"Y-fettered in his prison evermo'.\n" +"Then had I been in bliss, and not in woe.\n" +"Only the sight of her, whom that I serve,\n" +"Though that I never may her grace deserve,\n" +"Would have sufficed right enough for me.\n" +"O deare cousin Palamon,\" quoth he,\n" +"\"Thine is the vict'ry of this aventure,\n" +"Full blissfully in prison to endure:\n" +"In prison? nay certes, in paradise.\n" +"Well hath fortune y-turned thee the dice,\n" +"That hast the sight of her, and I th' absence.\n" +"For possible is, since thou hast her presence,\n" +"And art a knight, a worthy and an able,\n" +"That by some cas*, since fortune is changeable, *chance\n" +"Thou may'st to thy desire sometime attain.\n" +"But I that am exiled, and barren\n" +"Of alle grace, and in so great despair,\n" +"That there n'is earthe, water, fire, nor air,\n" +"Nor creature, that of them maked is,\n" +"That may me helpe nor comfort in this,\n" +"Well ought I *sterve in wanhope* and distress. *die in despair*\n" +"Farewell my life, my lust*, and my gladness. *pleasure\n" +"Alas, *why plainen men so in commune *why do men so often complain\n" +"Of purveyance of God*, or of Fortune, of God's providence?*\n" +"That giveth them full oft in many a guise\n" +"Well better than they can themselves devise?\n" +"Some man desireth for to have richess,\n" +"That cause is of his murder or great sickness.\n" +"And some man would out of his prison fain,\n" +"That in his house is of his meinie* slain. *servants <16>\n" +"Infinite harmes be in this mattere.\n" +"We wot never what thing we pray for here.\n" +"We fare as he that drunk is as a mouse.\n" +"A drunken man wot well he hath an house,\n" +"But he wot not which is the right way thither,\n" +"And to a drunken man the way is slither*. *slippery\n" +"And certes in this world so fare we.\n" +"We seeke fast after felicity,\n" +"But we go wrong full often truely.\n" +"Thus we may sayen all, and namely* I, *especially\n" +"That ween'd*, and had a great opinion, *thought\n" +"That if I might escape from prison\n" +"Then had I been in joy and perfect heal,\n" +"Where now I am exiled from my weal.\n" +"Since that I may not see you, Emily,\n" +"I am but dead; there is no remedy.\"\n" +"\n" +"Upon that other side, Palamon,\n" +"When that he wist Arcita was agone,\n" +"Much sorrow maketh, that the greate tower\n" +"Resounded of his yelling and clamour\n" +"The pure* fetters on his shinnes great *very <17>\n" +"Were of his bitter salte teares wet.\n" +"\n" +"\"Alas!\" quoth he, \"Arcita, cousin mine,\n" +"Of all our strife, God wot, the fruit is thine.\n" +"Thou walkest now in Thebes at thy large,\n" +"And of my woe thou *givest little charge*. *takest little heed*\n" +"Thou mayst, since thou hast wisdom and manhead*, *manhood, courage\n" +"Assemble all the folk of our kindred,\n" +"And make a war so sharp on this country\n" +"That by some aventure, or some treaty,\n" +"Thou mayst have her to lady and to wife,\n" +"For whom that I must needes lose my life.\n" +"For as by way of possibility,\n" +"Since thou art at thy large, of prison free,\n" +"And art a lord, great is thine avantage,\n" +"More than is mine, that sterve here in a cage.\n" +"For I must weep and wail, while that I live,\n" +"With all the woe that prison may me give,\n" +"And eke with pain that love me gives also,\n" +"That doubles all my torment and my woe.\"\n" +"\n" +"Therewith the fire of jealousy upstart\n" +"Within his breast, and hent* him by the heart *seized\n" +"So woodly*, that he like was to behold *madly\n" +"The box-tree, or the ashes dead and cold.\n" +"Then said; \"O cruel goddess, that govern\n" +"This world with binding of your word etern* *eternal\n" +"And writen in the table of adamant\n" +"Your parlement* and your eternal grant, *consultation\n" +"What is mankind more *unto you y-hold* *by you esteemed\n" +"Than is the sheep, that rouketh* in the fold! *lie huddled together\n" +"For slain is man, right as another beast;\n" +"And dwelleth eke in prison and arrest,\n" +"And hath sickness, and great adversity,\n" +"And oftentimes guilteless, pardie* *by God\n" +"What governance is in your prescience,\n" +"That guilteless tormenteth innocence?\n" +"And yet increaseth this all my penance,\n" +"That man is bounden to his observance\n" +"For Godde's sake to *letten of his will*, *restrain his desire*\n" +"Whereas a beast may all his lust fulfil.\n" +"And when a beast is dead, he hath no pain;\n" +"But man after his death must weep and plain,\n" +"Though in this worlde he have care and woe:\n" +"Withoute doubt it maye standen so.\n" +"\"The answer of this leave I to divines,\n" +"But well I wot, that in this world great pine* is; *pain, trouble\n" +"Alas! I see a serpent or a thief\n" +"That many a true man hath done mischief,\n" +"Go at his large, and where him list may turn.\n" +"But I must be in prison through Saturn,\n" +"And eke through Juno, jealous and eke wood*, *mad\n" +"That hath well nigh destroyed all the blood\n" +"Of Thebes, with his waste walles wide.\n" +"And Venus slay'th me on that other side\n" +"For jealousy, and fear of him, Arcite.\"\n" +"\n" +"Now will I stent* of Palamon a lite**, *pause **little\n" +"And let him in his prison stille dwell,\n" +"And of Arcita forth I will you tell.\n" +"The summer passeth, and the nightes long\n" +"Increase double-wise the paines strong\n" +"Both of the lover and the prisonere.\n" +"I n'ot* which hath the wofuller mistere**. *know not **condition\n" +"For, shortly for to say, this Palamon\n" +"Perpetually is damned to prison,\n" +"In chaines and in fetters to be dead;\n" +"And Arcite is exiled *on his head* *on peril of his head*\n" +"For evermore as out of that country,\n" +"Nor never more he shall his lady see.\n" +"You lovers ask I now this question,<18>\n" +"Who lieth the worse, Arcite or Palamon?\n" +"The one may see his lady day by day,\n" +"But in prison he dwelle must alway.\n" +"The other where him list may ride or go,\n" +"But see his lady shall he never mo'.\n" +"Now deem all as you liste, ye that can,\n" +"For I will tell you forth as I began.\n" +"\n" +"When that Arcite to Thebes comen was,\n" +"Full oft a day he swelt*, and said, \"Alas!\" *fainted\n" +"For see this lady he shall never mo'.\n" +"And shortly to concluden all his woe,\n" +"So much sorrow had never creature\n" +"That is or shall be while the world may dure.\n" +"His sleep, his meat, his drink is *him byraft*, *taken away from him*\n" +"That lean he wex*, and dry as any shaft. *became\n" +"His eyen hollow, grisly to behold,\n" +"His hue sallow, and pale as ashes cold,\n" +"And solitary he was, ever alone,\n" +"And wailing all the night, making his moan.\n" +"And if he hearde song or instrument,\n" +"Then would he weepen, he might not be stent*. *stopped\n" +"So feeble were his spirits, and so low,\n" +"And changed so, that no man coulde know\n" +"His speech, neither his voice, though men it heard.\n" +"And in his gear* for all the world he far'd *behaviour <19>\n" +"Not only like the lovers' malady\n" +"Of Eros, but rather y-like manie* *madness\n" +"Engender'd of humours melancholic,\n" +"Before his head in his cell fantastic.<20>\n" +"And shortly turned was all upside down,\n" +"Both habit and eke dispositioun,\n" +"Of him, this woful lover Dan* Arcite. *Lord <21>\n" +"Why should I all day of his woe indite?\n" +"When he endured had a year or two\n" +"This cruel torment, and this pain and woe,\n" +"At Thebes, in his country, as I said,\n" +"Upon a night in sleep as he him laid,\n" +"Him thought how that the winged god Mercury\n" +"Before him stood, and bade him to be merry.\n" +"His sleepy yard* in hand he bare upright; *rod <22>\n" +"A hat he wore upon his haires bright.\n" +"Arrayed was this god (as he took keep*) *notice\n" +"As he was when that Argus<23> took his sleep;\n" +"And said him thus: \"To Athens shalt thou wend*; *go\n" +"There is thee shapen* of thy woe an end.\" *fixed, prepared\n" +"And with that word Arcite woke and start.\n" +"\"Now truely how sore that e'er me smart,\"\n" +"Quoth he, \"to Athens right now will I fare.\n" +"Nor for no dread of death shall I not spare\n" +"To see my lady that I love and serve;\n" +"In her presence *I recke not to sterve.*\" *do not care if I die*\n" +"And with that word he caught a great mirror,\n" +"And saw that changed was all his colour,\n" +"And saw his visage all in other kind.\n" +"And right anon it ran him ill his mind,\n" +"That since his face was so disfigur'd\n" +"Of malady the which he had endur'd,\n" +"He mighte well, if that he *bare him low,* *lived in lowly fashion*\n" +"Live in Athenes evermore unknow,\n" +"And see his lady wellnigh day by day.\n" +"And right anon he changed his array,\n" +"And clad him as a poore labourer.\n" +"And all alone, save only a squier,\n" +"That knew his privity* and all his cas**, *secrets **fortune\n" +"Which was disguised poorly as he was,\n" +"To Athens is he gone the nexte* way. *nearest <24>\n" +"And to the court he went upon a day,\n" +"And at the gate he proffer'd his service,\n" +"To drudge and draw, what so men would devise*. *order\n" +"And, shortly of this matter for to sayn,\n" +"He fell in office with a chamberlain,\n" +"The which that dwelling was with Emily.\n" +"For he was wise, and coulde soon espy\n" +"Of every servant which that served her.\n" +"Well could he hewe wood, and water bear,\n" +"For he was young and mighty for the nones*, *occasion\n" +"And thereto he was strong and big of bones\n" +"To do that any wight can him devise.\n" +"\n" +"A year or two he was in this service,\n" +"Page of the chamber of Emily the bright;\n" +"And Philostrate he saide that he hight.\n" +"But half so well belov'd a man as he\n" +"Ne was there never in court of his degree.\n" +"He was so gentle of conditioun,\n" +"That throughout all the court was his renown.\n" +"They saide that it were a charity\n" +"That Theseus would *enhance his degree*, *elevate him in rank*\n" +"And put him in some worshipful service,\n" +"There as he might his virtue exercise.\n" +"And thus within a while his name sprung\n" +"Both of his deedes, and of his good tongue,\n" +"That Theseus hath taken him so near,\n" +"That of his chamber he hath made him squire,\n" +"And gave him gold to maintain his degree;\n" +"And eke men brought him out of his country\n" +"From year to year full privily his rent.\n" +"But honestly and slyly* he it spent, *discreetly, prudently\n" +"That no man wonder'd how that he it had.\n" +"And three year in this wise his life be lad*, *led\n" +"And bare him so in peace and eke in werre*, *war\n" +"There was no man that Theseus had so derre*. *dear\n" +"And in this blisse leave I now Arcite,\n" +"And speak I will of Palamon a lite*. *little\n" +"\n" +"In darkness horrible, and strong prison,\n" +"This seven year hath sitten Palamon,\n" +"Forpined*, what for love, and for distress. *pined, wasted away\n" +"Who feeleth double sorrow and heaviness\n" +"But Palamon? that love distraineth* so, *afflicts\n" +"That wood* out of his wits he went for woe, *mad\n" +"And eke thereto he is a prisonere\n" +"Perpetual, not only for a year.\n" +"Who coulde rhyme in English properly\n" +"His martyrdom? forsooth*, it is not I; *truly\n" +"Therefore I pass as lightly as I may.\n" +"It fell that in the seventh year, in May\n" +"The thirde night (as olde bookes sayn,\n" +"That all this story tellen more plain),\n" +"Were it by a venture or destiny\n" +"(As when a thing is shapen* it shall be), *settled, decreed\n" +"That soon after the midnight, Palamon\n" +"By helping of a friend brake his prison,\n" +"And fled the city fast as he might go,\n" +"For he had given drink his gaoler so\n" +"Of a clary <25>, made of a certain wine,\n" +"With *narcotise and opie* of Thebes fine, *narcotics and opium*\n" +"That all the night, though that men would him shake,\n" +"The gaoler slept, he mighte not awake:\n" +"And thus he fled as fast as ever he may.\n" +"The night was short, and *faste by the day *close at hand was\n" +"That needes cast he must himself to hide*. the day during which\n" +"And to a grove faste there beside he must cast about, or contrive,\n" +"With dreadful foot then stalked Palamon. to conceal himself.*\n" +"For shortly this was his opinion,\n" +"That in the grove he would him hide all day,\n" +"And in the night then would he take his way\n" +"To Thebes-ward, his friendes for to pray\n" +"On Theseus to help him to warray*. *make war <26>\n" +"And shortly either he would lose his life,\n" +"Or winnen Emily unto his wife.\n" +"This is th' effect, and his intention plain.\n" +"\n" +"Now will I turn to Arcita again,\n" +"That little wist how nighe was his care,\n" +"Till that Fortune had brought him in the snare.\n" +"The busy lark, the messenger of day,\n" +"Saluteth in her song the morning gray;\n" +}; + +void setup() { + int i=0; + uint8_t c; + Serial.begin(9600); + do { + c = pgm_read_byte(knightsTale+i); + if (c) Serial.print(c,BYTE); + i++; + } while (c); +} +void loop() { +} diff --git a/optiboot/examples/chaucer64k/chaucer64k.pde b/optiboot/examples/chaucer64k/chaucer64k.pde new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef1f8a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/optiboot/examples/chaucer64k/chaucer64k.pde @@ -0,0 +1,1332 @@ +// Text is an extract from The Canterbury Tales +// Full text at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/cbtls12.txt +#include + +prog_char knightsTale[] PROGMEM= { +" THE KNIGHT'S TALE <1>\n" +"\n" +"\n" +"WHILOM*, as olde stories tellen us, *formerly\n" +"There was a duke that highte* Theseus. *was called <2>\n" +"Of Athens he was lord and governor,\n" +"And in his time such a conqueror\n" +"That greater was there none under the sun.\n" +"Full many a riche country had he won.\n" +"What with his wisdom and his chivalry,\n" +"He conquer'd all the regne of Feminie,<3>\n" +"That whilom was y-cleped Scythia;\n" +"And weddede the Queen Hippolyta\n" +"And brought her home with him to his country\n" +"With muchel* glory and great solemnity, *great\n" +"And eke her younge sister Emily,\n" +"And thus with vict'ry and with melody\n" +"Let I this worthy Duke to Athens ride,\n" +"And all his host, in armes him beside.\n" +"\n" +"And certes, if it n'ere* too long to hear, *were not\n" +"I would have told you fully the mannere,\n" +"How wonnen* was the regne of Feminie, <4> *won\n" +"By Theseus, and by his chivalry;\n" +"And of the greate battle for the nonce\n" +"Betwixt Athenes and the Amazons;\n" +"And how assieged was Hippolyta,\n" +"The faire hardy queen of Scythia;\n" +"And of the feast that was at her wedding\n" +"And of the tempest at her homecoming.\n" +"But all these things I must as now forbear.\n" +"I have, God wot, a large field to ear* *plough<5>;\n" +"And weake be the oxen in my plough;\n" +"The remnant of my tale is long enow.\n" +"I will not *letten eke none of this rout*. *hinder any of\n" +"Let every fellow tell his tale about, this company*\n" +"And let see now who shall the supper win.\n" +"There *as I left*, I will again begin. *where I left off*\n" +"\n" +"This Duke, of whom I make mentioun,\n" +"When he was come almost unto the town,\n" +"In all his weal, and in his moste pride,\n" +"He was ware, as he cast his eye aside,\n" +"Where that there kneeled in the highe way\n" +"A company of ladies, tway and tway,\n" +"Each after other, clad in clothes black:\n" +"But such a cry and such a woe they make,\n" +"That in this world n'is creature living,\n" +"That hearde such another waimenting* *lamenting <6>\n" +"And of this crying would they never stenten*, *desist\n" +"Till they the reines of his bridle henten*. *seize\n" +"\"What folk be ye that at mine homecoming\n" +"Perturben so my feaste with crying?\"\n" +"Quoth Theseus; \"Have ye so great envy\n" +"Of mine honour, that thus complain and cry?\n" +"Or who hath you misboden*, or offended? *wronged\n" +"Do telle me, if it may be amended;\n" +"And why that ye be clad thus all in black?\"\n" +"\n" +"The oldest lady of them all then spake,\n" +"When she had swooned, with a deadly cheer*, *countenance\n" +"That it was ruthe* for to see or hear. *pity\n" +"She saide; \"Lord, to whom fortune hath given\n" +"Vict'ry, and as a conqueror to liven,\n" +"Nought grieveth us your glory and your honour;\n" +"But we beseechen mercy and succour.\n" +"Have mercy on our woe and our distress;\n" +"Some drop of pity, through thy gentleness,\n" +"Upon us wretched women let now fall.\n" +"For certes, lord, there is none of us all\n" +"That hath not been a duchess or a queen;\n" +"Now be we caitives*, as it is well seen: *captives\n" +"Thanked be Fortune, and her false wheel,\n" +"That *none estate ensureth to be wele*. *assures no continuance of\n" +"And certes, lord, t'abiden your presence prosperous estate*\n" +"Here in this temple of the goddess Clemence\n" +"We have been waiting all this fortenight:\n" +"Now help us, lord, since it lies in thy might.\n" +"\n" +"\"I, wretched wight, that weep and waile thus,\n" +"Was whilom wife to king Capaneus,\n" +"That starf* at Thebes, cursed be that day: *died <7>\n" +"And alle we that be in this array,\n" +"And maken all this lamentatioun,\n" +"We losten all our husbands at that town,\n" +"While that the siege thereabouten lay.\n" +"And yet the olde Creon, wellaway!\n" +"That lord is now of Thebes the city,\n" +"Fulfilled of ire and of iniquity,\n" +"He for despite, and for his tyranny,\n" +"To do the deade bodies villainy*, *insult\n" +"Of all our lorde's, which that been y-slaw, *slain\n" +"Hath all the bodies on an heap y-draw,\n" +"And will not suffer them by none assent\n" +"Neither to be y-buried, nor y-brent*, *burnt\n" +"But maketh houndes eat them in despite.\"\n" +"And with that word, withoute more respite\n" +"They fallen groff,* and cryden piteously; *grovelling\n" +"\"Have on us wretched women some mercy,\n" +"And let our sorrow sinken in thine heart.\"\n" +"\n" +"This gentle Duke down from his courser start\n" +"With hearte piteous, when he heard them speak.\n" +"Him thoughte that his heart would all to-break,\n" +"When he saw them so piteous and so mate* *abased\n" +"That whilom weren of so great estate.\n" +"And in his armes he them all up hent*, *raised, took\n" +"And them comforted in full good intent,\n" +"And swore his oath, as he was true knight,\n" +"He woulde do *so farforthly his might* *as far as his power went*\n" +"Upon the tyrant Creon them to wreak*, *avenge\n" +"That all the people of Greece shoulde speak,\n" +"How Creon was of Theseus y-served,\n" +"As he that had his death full well deserved.\n" +"And right anon withoute more abode* *delay\n" +"His banner he display'd, and forth he rode\n" +"To Thebes-ward, and all his, host beside:\n" +"No ner* Athenes would he go nor ride, *nearer\n" +"Nor take his ease fully half a day,\n" +"But onward on his way that night he lay:\n" +"And sent anon Hippolyta the queen,\n" +"And Emily her younge sister sheen* *bright, lovely\n" +"Unto the town of Athens for to dwell:\n" +"And forth he rit*; there is no more to tell. *rode\n" +"\n" +"The red statue of Mars with spear and targe* *shield\n" +"So shineth in his white banner large\n" +"That all the fieldes glitter up and down:\n" +"And by his banner borne is his pennon\n" +"Of gold full rich, in which there was y-beat* *stamped\n" +"The Minotaur<8> which that he slew in Crete\n" +"Thus rit this Duke, thus rit this conqueror\n" +"And in his host of chivalry the flower,\n" +"Till that he came to Thebes, and alight\n" +"Fair in a field, there as he thought to fight.\n" +"But shortly for to speaken of this thing,\n" +"With Creon, which that was of Thebes king,\n" +"He fought, and slew him manly as a knight\n" +"In plain bataille, and put his folk to flight:\n" +"And by assault he won the city after,\n" +"And rent adown both wall, and spar, and rafter;\n" +"And to the ladies he restored again\n" +"The bodies of their husbands that were slain,\n" +"To do obsequies, as was then the guise*. *custom\n" +"\n" +"But it were all too long for to devise* *describe\n" +"The greate clamour, and the waimenting*, *lamenting\n" +"Which that the ladies made at the brenning* *burning\n" +"Of the bodies, and the great honour\n" +"That Theseus the noble conqueror\n" +"Did to the ladies, when they from him went:\n" +"But shortly for to tell is mine intent.\n" +"When that this worthy Duke, this Theseus,\n" +"Had Creon slain, and wonnen Thebes thus,\n" +"Still in the field he took all night his rest,\n" +"And did with all the country as him lest*. *pleased\n" +"To ransack in the tas* of bodies dead, *heap\n" +"Them for to strip of *harness and of **weed, *armour **clothes\n" +"The pillers* did their business and cure, *pillagers <9>\n" +"After the battle and discomfiture.\n" +"And so befell, that in the tas they found,\n" +"Through girt with many a grievous bloody wound,\n" +"Two younge knightes *ligging by and by* *lying side by side*\n" +"Both in *one armes*, wrought full richely: *the same armour*\n" +"Of whiche two, Arcita hight that one,\n" +"And he that other highte Palamon.\n" +"Not fully quick*, nor fully dead they were, *alive\n" +"But by their coat-armour, and by their gear,\n" +"The heralds knew them well in special,\n" +"As those that weren of the blood royal\n" +"Of Thebes, and *of sistren two y-born*. *born of two sisters*\n" +"Out of the tas the pillers have them torn,\n" +"And have them carried soft unto the tent\n" +"Of Theseus, and he full soon them sent\n" +"To Athens, for to dwellen in prison\n" +"Perpetually, he *n'olde no ranson*. *would take no ransom*\n" +"And when this worthy Duke had thus y-done,\n" +"He took his host, and home he rit anon\n" +"With laurel crowned as a conquerour;\n" +"And there he lived in joy and in honour\n" +"Term of his life; what needeth wordes mo'?\n" +"And in a tower, in anguish and in woe,\n" +"Dwellen this Palamon, and eke Arcite,\n" +"For evermore, there may no gold them quite* *set free\n" +"\n" +"Thus passed year by year, and day by day,\n" +"Till it fell ones in a morn of May\n" +"That Emily, that fairer was to seen\n" +"Than is the lily upon his stalke green,\n" +"And fresher than the May with flowers new\n" +"(For with the rose colour strove her hue;\n" +"I n'ot* which was the finer of them two), *know not\n" +"Ere it was day, as she was wont to do,\n" +"She was arisen, and all ready dight*, *dressed\n" +"For May will have no sluggardy a-night;\n" +"The season pricketh every gentle heart,\n" +"And maketh him out of his sleep to start,\n" +"And saith, \"Arise, and do thine observance.\"\n" +"\n" +"This maketh Emily have remembrance\n" +"To do honour to May, and for to rise.\n" +"Y-clothed was she fresh for to devise;\n" +"Her yellow hair was braided in a tress,\n" +"Behind her back, a yarde long I guess.\n" +"And in the garden at *the sun uprist* *sunrise\n" +"She walketh up and down where as her list.\n" +"She gathereth flowers, party* white and red, *mingled\n" +"To make a sotel* garland for her head, *subtle, well-arranged\n" +"And as an angel heavenly she sung.\n" +"The greate tower, that was so thick and strong,\n" +"Which of the castle was the chief dungeon<10>\n" +"(Where as these knightes weren in prison,\n" +"Of which I tolde you, and telle shall),\n" +"Was even joinant* to the garden wall, *adjoining\n" +"There as this Emily had her playing.\n" +"\n" +"Bright was the sun, and clear that morrowning,\n" +"And Palamon, this woful prisoner,\n" +"As was his wont, by leave of his gaoler,\n" +"Was ris'n, and roamed in a chamber on high,\n" +"In which he all the noble city sigh*, *saw\n" +"And eke the garden, full of branches green,\n" +"There as this fresh Emelia the sheen\n" +"Was in her walk, and roamed up and down.\n" +"This sorrowful prisoner, this Palamon\n" +"Went in his chamber roaming to and fro,\n" +"And to himself complaining of his woe:\n" +"That he was born, full oft he said, Alas!\n" +"And so befell, by aventure or cas*, *chance\n" +"That through a window thick of many a bar\n" +"Of iron great, and square as any spar,\n" +"He cast his eyes upon Emelia,\n" +"And therewithal he blent* and cried, Ah! *started aside\n" +"As though he stungen were unto the heart.\n" +"And with that cry Arcite anon up start,\n" +"And saide, \"Cousin mine, what aileth thee,\n" +"That art so pale and deadly for to see?\n" +"Why cried'st thou? who hath thee done offence?\n" +"For Godde's love, take all in patience\n" +"Our prison*, for it may none other be. *imprisonment\n" +"Fortune hath giv'n us this adversity'.\n" +"Some wick'* aspect or disposition *wicked\n" +"Of Saturn<11>, by some constellation,\n" +"Hath giv'n us this, although we had it sworn,\n" +"So stood the heaven when that we were born,\n" +"We must endure; this is the short and plain.\n" +"\n" +"This Palamon answer'd, and said again:\n" +"\"Cousin, forsooth of this opinion\n" +"Thou hast a vain imagination.\n" +"This prison caused me not for to cry;\n" +"But I was hurt right now thorough mine eye\n" +"Into mine heart; that will my bane* be. *destruction\n" +"The fairness of the lady that I see\n" +"Yond in the garden roaming to and fro,\n" +"Is cause of all my crying and my woe.\n" +"I *n'ot wher* she be woman or goddess, *know not whether*\n" +"But Venus is it, soothly* as I guess, *truly\n" +"And therewithal on knees adown he fill,\n" +"And saide: \"Venus, if it be your will\n" +"You in this garden thus to transfigure\n" +"Before me sorrowful wretched creature,\n" +"Out of this prison help that we may scape.\n" +"And if so be our destiny be shape\n" +"By etern word to dien in prison,\n" +"Of our lineage have some compassion,\n" +"That is so low y-brought by tyranny.\"\n" +"\n" +"And with that word Arcita *gan espy* *began to look forth*\n" +"Where as this lady roamed to and fro\n" +"And with that sight her beauty hurt him so,\n" +"That if that Palamon was wounded sore,\n" +"Arcite is hurt as much as he, or more.\n" +"And with a sigh he saide piteously:\n" +"\"The freshe beauty slay'th me suddenly\n" +"Of her that roameth yonder in the place.\n" +"And but* I have her mercy and her grace, *unless\n" +"That I may see her at the leaste way,\n" +"I am but dead; there is no more to say.\"\n" +"This Palamon, when he these wordes heard,\n" +"Dispiteously* he looked, and answer'd: *angrily\n" +"\"Whether say'st thou this in earnest or in play?\"\n" +"\"Nay,\" quoth Arcite, \"in earnest, by my fay*. *faith\n" +"God help me so, *me lust full ill to play*.\" *I am in no humour\n" +"This Palamon gan knit his browes tway. for jesting*\n" +"\"It were,\" quoth he, \"to thee no great honour\n" +"For to be false, nor for to be traitour\n" +"To me, that am thy cousin and thy brother\n" +"Y-sworn full deep, and each of us to other,\n" +"That never for to dien in the pain <12>,\n" +"Till that the death departen shall us twain,\n" +"Neither of us in love to hinder other,\n" +"Nor in none other case, my leve* brother; *dear\n" +"But that thou shouldest truly farther me\n" +"In every case, as I should farther thee.\n" +"This was thine oath, and mine also certain;\n" +"I wot it well, thou dar'st it not withsayn*, *deny\n" +"Thus art thou of my counsel out of doubt,\n" +"And now thou wouldest falsely be about\n" +"To love my lady, whom I love and serve,\n" +"And ever shall, until mine hearte sterve* *die\n" +"Now certes, false Arcite, thou shalt not so\n" +"I lov'd her first, and tolde thee my woe\n" +"As to my counsel, and my brother sworn\n" +"To farther me, as I have told beforn.\n" +"For which thou art y-bounden as a knight\n" +"To helpe me, if it lie in thy might,\n" +"Or elles art thou false, I dare well sayn,\"\n" +"\n" +"This Arcita full proudly spake again:\n" +"\"Thou shalt,\" quoth he, \"be rather* false than I, *sooner\n" +"And thou art false, I tell thee utterly;\n" +"For par amour I lov'd her first ere thou.\n" +"What wilt thou say? *thou wist it not right now* *even now thou\n" +"Whether she be a woman or goddess. knowest not*\n" +"Thine is affection of holiness,\n" +"And mine is love, as to a creature:\n" +"For which I tolde thee mine aventure\n" +"As to my cousin, and my brother sworn\n" +"I pose*, that thou loved'st her beforn: *suppose\n" +"Wost* thou not well the olde clerke's saw<13>, *know'st\n" +"That who shall give a lover any law?\n" +"Love is a greater lawe, by my pan,\n" +"Than may be giv'n to any earthly man:\n" +"Therefore positive law, and such decree,\n" +"Is broke alway for love in each degree\n" +"A man must needes love, maugre his head.\n" +"He may not flee it, though he should be dead,\n" +"*All be she* maid, or widow, or else wife. *whether she be*\n" +"And eke it is not likely all thy life\n" +"To standen in her grace, no more than I\n" +"For well thou wost thyselfe verily,\n" +"That thou and I be damned to prison\n" +"Perpetual, us gaineth no ranson.\n" +"We strive, as did the houndes for the bone;\n" +"They fought all day, and yet their part was none.\n" +"There came a kite, while that they were so wroth,\n" +"And bare away the bone betwixt them both.\n" +"And therefore at the kinge's court, my brother,\n" +"Each man for himselfe, there is no other.\n" +"Love if thee list; for I love and aye shall\n" +"And soothly, leve brother, this is all.\n" +"Here in this prison musten we endure,\n" +"And each of us take his Aventure.\"\n" +"\n" +"Great was the strife and long between these tway,\n" +"If that I hadde leisure for to say;\n" +"But to the effect: it happen'd on a day\n" +"(To tell it you as shortly as I may),\n" +"A worthy duke that hight Perithous<14>\n" +"That fellow was to the Duke Theseus\n" +"Since thilke* day that they were children lite** *that **little\n" +"Was come to Athens, his fellow to visite,\n" +"And for to play, as he was wont to do;\n" +"For in this world he loved no man so;\n" +"And he lov'd him as tenderly again.\n" +"So well they lov'd, as olde bookes sayn,\n" +"That when that one was dead, soothly to sayn,\n" +"His fellow went and sought him down in hell:\n" +"But of that story list me not to write.\n" +"Duke Perithous loved well Arcite,\n" +"And had him known at Thebes year by year:\n" +"And finally at request and prayere\n" +"Of Perithous, withoute ranson\n" +"Duke Theseus him let out of prison,\n" +"Freely to go, where him list over all,\n" +"In such a guise, as I you tellen shall\n" +"This was the forword*, plainly to indite, *promise\n" +"Betwixte Theseus and him Arcite:\n" +"That if so were, that Arcite were y-found\n" +"Ever in his life, by day or night, one stound* *moment<15>\n" +"In any country of this Theseus,\n" +"And he were caught, it was accorded thus,\n" +"That with a sword he shoulde lose his head;\n" +"There was none other remedy nor rede*. *counsel\n" +"But took his leave, and homeward he him sped;\n" +"Let him beware, his necke lieth *to wed*. *in pledge*\n" +"\n" +"How great a sorrow suff'reth now Arcite!\n" +"The death he feeleth through his hearte smite;\n" +"He weepeth, waileth, crieth piteously;\n" +"To slay himself he waiteth privily.\n" +"He said; \"Alas the day that I was born!\n" +"Now is my prison worse than beforn:\n" +"*Now is me shape* eternally to dwell *it is fixed for me*\n" +"Not in purgatory, but right in hell.\n" +"Alas! that ever I knew Perithous.\n" +"For elles had I dwelt with Theseus\n" +"Y-fettered in his prison evermo'.\n" +"Then had I been in bliss, and not in woe.\n" +"Only the sight of her, whom that I serve,\n" +"Though that I never may her grace deserve,\n" +"Would have sufficed right enough for me.\n" +"O deare cousin Palamon,\" quoth he,\n" +"\"Thine is the vict'ry of this aventure,\n" +"Full blissfully in prison to endure:\n" +"In prison? nay certes, in paradise.\n" +"Well hath fortune y-turned thee the dice,\n" +"That hast the sight of her, and I th' absence.\n" +"For possible is, since thou hast her presence,\n" +"And art a knight, a worthy and an able,\n" +"That by some cas*, since fortune is changeable, *chance\n" +"Thou may'st to thy desire sometime attain.\n" +"But I that am exiled, and barren\n" +"Of alle grace, and in so great despair,\n" +"That there n'is earthe, water, fire, nor air,\n" +"Nor creature, that of them maked is,\n" +"That may me helpe nor comfort in this,\n" +"Well ought I *sterve in wanhope* and distress. *die in despair*\n" +"Farewell my life, my lust*, and my gladness. *pleasure\n" +"Alas, *why plainen men so in commune *why do men so often complain\n" +"Of purveyance of God*, or of Fortune, of God's providence?*\n" +"That giveth them full oft in many a guise\n" +"Well better than they can themselves devise?\n" +"Some man desireth for to have richess,\n" +"That cause is of his murder or great sickness.\n" +"And some man would out of his prison fain,\n" +"That in his house is of his meinie* slain. *servants <16>\n" +"Infinite harmes be in this mattere.\n" +"We wot never what thing we pray for here.\n" +"We fare as he that drunk is as a mouse.\n" +"A drunken man wot well he hath an house,\n" +"But he wot not which is the right way thither,\n" +"And to a drunken man the way is slither*. *slippery\n" +"And certes in this world so fare we.\n" +"We seeke fast after felicity,\n" +"But we go wrong full often truely.\n" +"Thus we may sayen all, and namely* I, *especially\n" +"That ween'd*, and had a great opinion, *thought\n" +"That if I might escape from prison\n" +"Then had I been in joy and perfect heal,\n" +"Where now I am exiled from my weal.\n" +"Since that I may not see you, Emily,\n" +"I am but dead; there is no remedy.\"\n" +"\n" +"Upon that other side, Palamon,\n" +"When that he wist Arcita was agone,\n" +"Much sorrow maketh, that the greate tower\n" +"Resounded of his yelling and clamour\n" +"The pure* fetters on his shinnes great *very <17>\n" +"Were of his bitter salte teares wet.\n" +"\n" +"\"Alas!\" quoth he, \"Arcita, cousin mine,\n" +"Of all our strife, God wot, the fruit is thine.\n" +"Thou walkest now in Thebes at thy large,\n" +"And of my woe thou *givest little charge*. *takest little heed*\n" +"Thou mayst, since thou hast wisdom and manhead*, *manhood, courage\n" +"Assemble all the folk of our kindred,\n" +"And make a war so sharp on this country\n" +"That by some aventure, or some treaty,\n" +"Thou mayst have her to lady and to wife,\n" +"For whom that I must needes lose my life.\n" +"For as by way of possibility,\n" +"Since thou art at thy large, of prison free,\n" +"And art a lord, great is thine avantage,\n" +"More than is mine, that sterve here in a cage.\n" +"For I must weep and wail, while that I live,\n" +"With all the woe that prison may me give,\n" +"And eke with pain that love me gives also,\n" +"That doubles all my torment and my woe.\"\n" +"\n" +"Therewith the fire of jealousy upstart\n" +"Within his breast, and hent* him by the heart *seized\n" +"So woodly*, that he like was to behold *madly\n" +"The box-tree, or the ashes dead and cold.\n" +"Then said; \"O cruel goddess, that govern\n" +"This world with binding of your word etern* *eternal\n" +"And writen in the table of adamant\n" +"Your parlement* and your eternal grant, *consultation\n" +"What is mankind more *unto you y-hold* *by you esteemed\n" +"Than is the sheep, that rouketh* in the fold! *lie huddled together\n" +"For slain is man, right as another beast;\n" +"And dwelleth eke in prison and arrest,\n" +"And hath sickness, and great adversity,\n" +"And oftentimes guilteless, pardie* *by God\n" +"What governance is in your prescience,\n" +"That guilteless tormenteth innocence?\n" +"And yet increaseth this all my penance,\n" +"That man is bounden to his observance\n" +"For Godde's sake to *letten of his will*, *restrain his desire*\n" +"Whereas a beast may all his lust fulfil.\n" +"And when a beast is dead, he hath no pain;\n" +"But man after his death must weep and plain,\n" +"Though in this worlde he have care and woe:\n" +"Withoute doubt it maye standen so.\n" +"\"The answer of this leave I to divines,\n" +"But well I wot, that in this world great pine* is; *pain, trouble\n" +"Alas! I see a serpent or a thief\n" +"That many a true man hath done mischief,\n" +"Go at his large, and where him list may turn.\n" +"But I must be in prison through Saturn,\n" +"And eke through Juno, jealous and eke wood*, *mad\n" +"That hath well nigh destroyed all the blood\n" +"Of Thebes, with his waste walles wide.\n" +"And Venus slay'th me on that other side\n" +"For jealousy, and fear of him, Arcite.\"\n" +"\n" +"Now will I stent* of Palamon a lite**, *pause **little\n" +"And let him in his prison stille dwell,\n" +"And of Arcita forth I will you tell.\n" +"The summer passeth, and the nightes long\n" +"Increase double-wise the paines strong\n" +"Both of the lover and the prisonere.\n" +"I n'ot* which hath the wofuller mistere**. *know not **condition\n" +"For, shortly for to say, this Palamon\n" +"Perpetually is damned to prison,\n" +"In chaines and in fetters to be dead;\n" +"And Arcite is exiled *on his head* *on peril of his head*\n" +"For evermore as out of that country,\n" +"Nor never more he shall his lady see.\n" +"You lovers ask I now this question,<18>\n" +"Who lieth the worse, Arcite or Palamon?\n" +"The one may see his lady day by day,\n" +"But in prison he dwelle must alway.\n" +"The other where him list may ride or go,\n" +"But see his lady shall he never mo'.\n" +"Now deem all as you liste, ye that can,\n" +"For I will tell you forth as I began.\n" +"\n" +"When that Arcite to Thebes comen was,\n" +"Full oft a day he swelt*, and said, \"Alas!\" *fainted\n" +"For see this lady he shall never mo'.\n" +"And shortly to concluden all his woe,\n" +"So much sorrow had never creature\n" +"That is or shall be while the world may dure.\n" +"His sleep, his meat, his drink is *him byraft*, *taken away from him*\n" +"That lean he wex*, and dry as any shaft. *became\n" +"His eyen hollow, grisly to behold,\n" +"His hue sallow, and pale as ashes cold,\n" +"And solitary he was, ever alone,\n" +"And wailing all the night, making his moan.\n" +"And if he hearde song or instrument,\n" +"Then would he weepen, he might not be stent*. *stopped\n" +"So feeble were his spirits, and so low,\n" +"And changed so, that no man coulde know\n" +"His speech, neither his voice, though men it heard.\n" +"And in his gear* for all the world he far'd *behaviour <19>\n" +"Not only like the lovers' malady\n" +"Of Eros, but rather y-like manie* *madness\n" +"Engender'd of humours melancholic,\n" +"Before his head in his cell fantastic.<20>\n" +"And shortly turned was all upside down,\n" +"Both habit and eke dispositioun,\n" +"Of him, this woful lover Dan* Arcite. *Lord <21>\n" +"Why should I all day of his woe indite?\n" +"When he endured had a year or two\n" +"This cruel torment, and this pain and woe,\n" +"At Thebes, in his country, as I said,\n" +"Upon a night in sleep as he him laid,\n" +"Him thought how that the winged god Mercury\n" +"Before him stood, and bade him to be merry.\n" +"His sleepy yard* in hand he bare upright; *rod <22>\n" +"A hat he wore upon his haires bright.\n" +"Arrayed was this god (as he took keep*) *notice\n" +"As he was when that Argus<23> took his sleep;\n" +"And said him thus: \"To Athens shalt thou wend*; *go\n" +"There is thee shapen* of thy woe an end.\" *fixed, prepared\n" +"And with that word Arcite woke and start.\n" +"\"Now truely how sore that e'er me smart,\"\n" +"Quoth he, \"to Athens right now will I fare.\n" +"Nor for no dread of death shall I not spare\n" +"To see my lady that I love and serve;\n" +"In her presence *I recke not to sterve.*\" *do not care if I die*\n" +"And with that word he caught a great mirror,\n" +"And saw that changed was all his colour,\n" +"And saw his visage all in other kind.\n" +"And right anon it ran him ill his mind,\n" +"That since his face was so disfigur'd\n" +"Of malady the which he had endur'd,\n" +"He mighte well, if that he *bare him low,* *lived in lowly fashion*\n" +"Live in Athenes evermore unknow,\n" +"And see his lady wellnigh day by day.\n" +"And right anon he changed his array,\n" +"And clad him as a poore labourer.\n" +"And all alone, save only a squier,\n" +"That knew his privity* and all his cas**, *secrets **fortune\n" +"Which was disguised poorly as he was,\n" +"To Athens is he gone the nexte* way. *nearest <24>\n" +"And to the court he went upon a day,\n" +"And at the gate he proffer'd his service,\n" +"To drudge and draw, what so men would devise*. *order\n" +"And, shortly of this matter for to sayn,\n" +"He fell in office with a chamberlain,\n" +"The which that dwelling was with Emily.\n" +"For he was wise, and coulde soon espy\n" +"Of every servant which that served her.\n" +"Well could he hewe wood, and water bear,\n" +"For he was young and mighty for the nones*, *occasion\n" +"And thereto he was strong and big of bones\n" +"To do that any wight can him devise.\n" +"\n" +"A year or two he was in this service,\n" +"Page of the chamber of Emily the bright;\n" +"And Philostrate he saide that he hight.\n" +"But half so well belov'd a man as he\n" +"Ne was there never in court of his degree.\n" +"He was so gentle of conditioun,\n" +"That throughout all the court was his renown.\n" +"They saide that it were a charity\n" +"That Theseus would *enhance his degree*, *elevate him in rank*\n" +"And put him in some worshipful service,\n" +"There as he might his virtue exercise.\n" +"And thus within a while his name sprung\n" +"Both of his deedes, and of his good tongue,\n" +"That Theseus hath taken him so near,\n" +"That of his chamber he hath made him squire,\n" +"And gave him gold to maintain his degree;\n" +"And eke men brought him out of his country\n" +"From year to year full privily his rent.\n" +"But honestly and slyly* he it spent, *discreetly, prudently\n" +"That no man wonder'd how that he it had.\n" +"And three year in this wise his life be lad*, *led\n" +"And bare him so in peace and eke in werre*, *war\n" +"There was no man that Theseus had so derre*. *dear\n" +"And in this blisse leave I now Arcite,\n" +"And speak I will of Palamon a lite*. *little\n" +"\n" +"In darkness horrible, and strong prison,\n" +"This seven year hath sitten Palamon,\n" +"Forpined*, what for love, and for distress. *pined, wasted away\n" +"Who feeleth double sorrow and heaviness\n" +"But Palamon? that love distraineth* so, *afflicts\n" +"That wood* out of his wits he went for woe, *mad\n" +"And eke thereto he is a prisonere\n" +"Perpetual, not only for a year.\n" +"Who coulde rhyme in English properly\n" +"His martyrdom? forsooth*, it is not I; *truly\n" +"Therefore I pass as lightly as I may.\n" +"It fell that in the seventh year, in May\n" +"The thirde night (as olde bookes sayn,\n" +"That all this story tellen more plain),\n" +"Were it by a venture or destiny\n" +"(As when a thing is shapen* it shall be), *settled, decreed\n" +"That soon after the midnight, Palamon\n" +"By helping of a friend brake his prison,\n" +"And fled the city fast as he might go,\n" +"For he had given drink his gaoler so\n" +"Of a clary <25>, made of a certain wine,\n" +"With *narcotise and opie* of Thebes fine, *narcotics and opium*\n" +"That all the night, though that men would him shake,\n" +"The gaoler slept, he mighte not awake:\n" +"And thus he fled as fast as ever he may.\n" +"The night was short, and *faste by the day *close at hand was\n" +"That needes cast he must himself to hide*. the day during which\n" +"And to a grove faste there beside he must cast about, or contrive,\n" +"With dreadful foot then stalked Palamon. to conceal himself.*\n" +"For shortly this was his opinion,\n" +"That in the grove he would him hide all day,\n" +"And in the night then would he take his way\n" +"To Thebes-ward, his friendes for to pray\n" +"On Theseus to help him to warray*. *make war <26>\n" +"And shortly either he would lose his life,\n" +"Or winnen Emily unto his wife.\n" +"This is th' effect, and his intention plain.\n" +"\n" +"Now will I turn to Arcita again,\n" +"That little wist how nighe was his care,\n" +"Till that Fortune had brought him in the snare.\n" +"The busy lark, the messenger of day,\n" +"Saluteth in her song the morning gray;\n" +"And fiery Phoebus riseth up so bright,\n" +"That all the orient laugheth at the sight,\n" +"And with his streames* drieth in the greves** *rays **groves\n" +"The silver droppes, hanging on the leaves;\n" +"And Arcite, that is in the court royal\n" +"With Theseus, his squier principal,\n" +"Is ris'n, and looketh on the merry day.\n" +"And for to do his observance to May,\n" +"Remembering the point* of his desire, *object\n" +"He on his courser, starting as the fire,\n" +"Is ridden to the fieldes him to play,\n" +"Out of the court, were it a mile or tway.\n" +"And to the grove, of which I have you told,\n" +"By a venture his way began to hold,\n" +"To make him a garland of the greves*, *groves\n" +"Were it of woodbine, or of hawthorn leaves,\n" +"And loud he sang against the sun so sheen*. *shining bright\n" +"\"O May, with all thy flowers and thy green,\n" +"Right welcome be thou, faire freshe May,\n" +"I hope that I some green here getten may.\"\n" +"And from his courser*, with a lusty heart, *horse\n" +"Into the grove full hastily he start,\n" +"And in a path he roamed up and down,\n" +"There as by aventure this Palamon\n" +"Was in a bush, that no man might him see,\n" +"For sore afeard of his death was he.\n" +"Nothing ne knew he that it was Arcite;\n" +"God wot he would have *trowed it full lite*. *full little believed it*\n" +"But sooth is said, gone since full many years,\n" +"The field hath eyen*, and the wood hath ears, *eyes\n" +"It is full fair a man *to bear him even*, *to be on his guard*\n" +"For all day meeten men at *unset steven*. *unexpected time <27>\n" +"Full little wot Arcite of his fellaw,\n" +"That was so nigh to hearken of his saw*, *saying, speech\n" +"For in the bush he sitteth now full still.\n" +"When that Arcite had roamed all his fill,\n" +"And *sungen all the roundel* lustily, *sang the roundelay*<28>\n" +"Into a study he fell suddenly,\n" +"As do those lovers in their *quainte gears*, *odd fashions*\n" +"Now in the crop*, and now down in the breres**, <29> *tree-top\n" +"Now up, now down, as bucket in a well. **briars\n" +"Right as the Friday, soothly for to tell,\n" +"Now shineth it, and now it raineth fast,\n" +"Right so can geary* Venus overcast *changeful\n" +"The heartes of her folk, right as her day\n" +"Is gearful*, right so changeth she array. *changeful\n" +"Seldom is Friday all the weeke like.\n" +"When Arcite had y-sung, he gan to sike*, *sigh\n" +"And sat him down withouten any more:\n" +"\"Alas!\" quoth he, \"the day that I was bore!\n" +"How longe, Juno, through thy cruelty\n" +"Wilt thou warrayen* Thebes the city? *torment\n" +"Alas! y-brought is to confusion\n" +"The blood royal of Cadm' and Amphion:\n" +"Of Cadmus, which that was the firste man,\n" +}; +prog_char knightsTale2[] PROGMEM= { +"That Thebes built, or first the town began,\n" +"And of the city first was crowned king.\n" +"Of his lineage am I, and his offspring\n" +"By very line, as of the stock royal;\n" +"And now I am *so caitiff and so thrall*, *wretched and enslaved*\n" +"That he that is my mortal enemy,\n" +"I serve him as his squier poorely.\n" +"And yet doth Juno me well more shame,\n" +"For I dare not beknow* mine owen name, *acknowledge <30>\n" +"But there as I was wont to hight Arcite,\n" +"Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite.\n" +"Alas! thou fell Mars, and alas! Juno,\n" +"Thus hath your ire our lineage all fordo* *undone, ruined\n" +"Save only me, and wretched Palamon,\n" +"That Theseus martyreth in prison.\n" +"And over all this, to slay me utterly,\n" +"Love hath his fiery dart so brenningly* *burningly\n" +"Y-sticked through my true careful heart,\n" +"That shapen was my death erst than my shert. <31>\n" +"Ye slay me with your eyen, Emily;\n" +"Ye be the cause wherefore that I die.\n" +"Of all the remnant of mine other care\n" +"Ne set I not the *mountance of a tare*, *value of a straw*\n" +"So that I could do aught to your pleasance.\"\n" +"\n" +"And with that word he fell down in a trance\n" +"A longe time; and afterward upstart\n" +"This Palamon, that thought thorough his heart\n" +"He felt a cold sword suddenly to glide:\n" +"For ire he quoke*, no longer would he hide. *quaked\n" +"And when that he had heard Arcite's tale,\n" +"As he were wood*, with face dead and pale, *mad\n" +"He start him up out of the bushes thick,\n" +"And said: \"False Arcita, false traitor wick'*, *wicked\n" +"Now art thou hent*, that lov'st my lady so, *caught\n" +"For whom that I have all this pain and woe,\n" +"And art my blood, and to my counsel sworn,\n" +"As I full oft have told thee herebeforn,\n" +"And hast bejaped* here Duke Theseus, *deceived, imposed upon\n" +"And falsely changed hast thy name thus;\n" +"I will be dead, or elles thou shalt die.\n" +"Thou shalt not love my lady Emily,\n" +"But I will love her only and no mo';\n" +"For I am Palamon thy mortal foe.\n" +"And though I have no weapon in this place,\n" +"But out of prison am astart* by grace, *escaped\n" +"I dreade* not that either thou shalt die, *doubt\n" +"Or else thou shalt not loven Emily.\n" +"Choose which thou wilt, for thou shalt not astart.\"\n" +"\n" +"This Arcite then, with full dispiteous* heart, *wrathful\n" +"When he him knew, and had his tale heard,\n" +"As fierce as lion pulled out a swerd,\n" +"And saide thus; \"By God that sitt'th above,\n" +"*N'ere it* that thou art sick, and wood for love, *were it not*\n" +"And eke that thou no weap'n hast in this place,\n" +"Thou should'st never out of this grove pace,\n" +"That thou ne shouldest dien of mine hand.\n" +"For I defy the surety and the band,\n" +"Which that thou sayest I have made to thee.\n" +"What? very fool, think well that love is free;\n" +"And I will love her maugre* all thy might. *despite\n" +"But, for thou art a worthy gentle knight,\n" +"And *wilnest to darraine her by bataille*, *will reclaim her\n" +"Have here my troth, to-morrow I will not fail, by combat*\n" +"Without weeting* of any other wight, *knowledge\n" +"That here I will be founden as a knight,\n" +"And bringe harness* right enough for thee; *armour and arms\n" +"And choose the best, and leave the worst for me.\n" +"And meat and drinke this night will I bring\n" +"Enough for thee, and clothes for thy bedding.\n" +"And if so be that thou my lady win,\n" +"And slay me in this wood that I am in,\n" +"Thou may'st well have thy lady as for me.\"\n" +"This Palamon answer'd, \"I grant it thee.\"\n" +"And thus they be departed till the morrow,\n" +"When each of them hath *laid his faith to borrow*. *pledged his faith*\n" +"\n" +"O Cupid, out of alle charity!\n" +"O Regne* that wilt no fellow have with thee! *queen <32>\n" +"Full sooth is said, that love nor lordeship\n" +"Will not, *his thanks*, have any fellowship. *thanks to him*\n" +"Well finden that Arcite and Palamon.\n" +"Arcite is ridd anon unto the town,\n" +"And on the morrow, ere it were daylight,\n" +"Full privily two harness hath he dight*, *prepared\n" +"Both suffisant and meete to darraine* *contest\n" +"The battle in the field betwixt them twain.\n" +"And on his horse, alone as he was born,\n" +"He carrieth all this harness him beforn;\n" +"And in the grove, at time and place y-set,\n" +"This Arcite and this Palamon be met.\n" +"Then change gan the colour of their face;\n" +"Right as the hunter in the regne* of Thrace *kingdom\n" +"That standeth at a gappe with a spear\n" +"When hunted is the lion or the bear,\n" +"And heareth him come rushing in the greves*, *groves\n" +"And breaking both the boughes and the leaves,\n" +"Thinketh, \"Here comes my mortal enemy,\n" +"Withoute fail, he must be dead or I;\n" +"For either I must slay him at the gap;\n" +"Or he must slay me, if that me mishap:\"\n" +"So fared they, in changing of their hue\n" +"*As far as either of them other knew*. *When they recognised each\n" +"There was no good day, and no saluting, other afar off*\n" +"But straight, withoute wordes rehearsing,\n" +"Evereach of them holp to arm the other,\n" +"As friendly, as he were his owen brother.\n" +"And after that, with sharpe speares strong\n" +"They foined* each at other wonder long. *thrust\n" +"Thou mightest weene*, that this Palamon *think\n" +"In fighting were as a wood* lion, *mad\n" +"And as a cruel tiger was Arcite:\n" +"As wilde boars gan they together smite,\n" +"That froth as white as foam, *for ire wood*. *mad with anger*\n" +"Up to the ancle fought they in their blood.\n" +"And in this wise I let them fighting dwell,\n" +"And forth I will of Theseus you tell.\n" +"\n" +"The Destiny, minister general,\n" +"That executeth in the world o'er all\n" +"The purveyance*, that God hath seen beforn; *foreordination\n" +"So strong it is, that though the world had sworn\n" +"The contrary of a thing by yea or nay,\n" +"Yet some time it shall fallen on a day\n" +"That falleth not eft* in a thousand year. *again\n" +"For certainly our appetites here,\n" +"Be it of war, or peace, or hate, or love,\n" +"All is this ruled by the sight* above. *eye, intelligence, power\n" +"This mean I now by mighty Theseus,\n" +"That for to hunten is so desirous --\n" +"And namely* the greate hart in May -- *especially\n" +"That in his bed there dawneth him no day\n" +"That he n'is clad, and ready for to ride\n" +"With hunt and horn, and houndes him beside.\n" +"For in his hunting hath he such delight,\n" +"That it is all his joy and appetite\n" +"To be himself the greate harte's bane* *destruction\n" +"For after Mars he serveth now Diane.\n" +"Clear was the day, as I have told ere this,\n" +"And Theseus, with alle joy and bliss,\n" +"With his Hippolyta, the faire queen,\n" +"And Emily, y-clothed all in green,\n" +"On hunting be they ridden royally.\n" +"And to the grove, that stood there faste by,\n" +"In which there was an hart, as men him told,\n" +"Duke Theseus the straighte way doth hold,\n" +"And to the laund* he rideth him full right, *plain <33>\n" +"There was the hart y-wont to have his flight,\n" +"And over a brook, and so forth on his way.\n" +"This Duke will have a course at him or tway\n" +"With houndes, such as him lust* to command. *pleased\n" +"And when this Duke was come to the laund,\n" +"Under the sun he looked, and anon\n" +"He was ware of Arcite and Palamon,\n" +"That foughte breme*, as it were bulles two. *fiercely\n" +"The brighte swordes wente to and fro\n" +"So hideously, that with the leaste stroke\n" +"It seemed that it woulde fell an oak,\n" +"But what they were, nothing yet he wote*. *knew\n" +"This Duke his courser with his spurres smote,\n" +"*And at a start* he was betwixt them two, *suddenly*\n" +"And pulled out a sword and cried, \"Ho!\n" +"No more, on pain of losing of your head.\n" +"By mighty Mars, he shall anon be dead\n" +"That smiteth any stroke, that I may see!\n" +"But tell to me what mister* men ye be, *manner, kind <34>\n" +"That be so hardy for to fighte here\n" +"Withoute judge or other officer,\n" +"As though it were in listes royally. <35>\n" +"This Palamon answered hastily,\n" +"And saide: \"Sir, what needeth wordes mo'?\n" +"We have the death deserved bothe two,\n" +"Two woful wretches be we, and caitives,\n" +"That be accumbered* of our own lives, *burdened\n" +"And as thou art a rightful lord and judge,\n" +"So give us neither mercy nor refuge.\n" +"And slay me first, for sainte charity,\n" +"But slay my fellow eke as well as me.\n" +"Or slay him first; for, though thou know it lite*, *little\n" +"This is thy mortal foe, this is Arcite\n" +"That from thy land is banisht on his head,\n" +"For which he hath deserved to be dead.\n" +"For this is he that came unto thy gate\n" +"And saide, that he highte Philostrate.\n" +"Thus hath he japed* thee full many year, *deceived\n" +"And thou hast made of him thy chief esquier;\n" +"And this is he, that loveth Emily.\n" +"For since the day is come that I shall die\n" +"I make pleinly* my confession, *fully, unreservedly\n" +"That I am thilke* woful Palamon, *that same <36>\n" +"That hath thy prison broken wickedly.\n" +"I am thy mortal foe, and it am I\n" +"That so hot loveth Emily the bright,\n" +"That I would die here present in her sight.\n" +"Therefore I aske death and my jewise*. *judgement\n" +"But slay my fellow eke in the same wise,\n" +"For both we have deserved to be slain.\"\n" +"\n" +"This worthy Duke answer'd anon again,\n" +"And said, \"This is a short conclusion.\n" +"Your own mouth, by your own confession\n" +"Hath damned you, and I will it record;\n" +"It needeth not to pain you with the cord;\n" +"Ye shall be dead, by mighty Mars the Red.<37>\n" +"\n" +"The queen anon for very womanhead\n" +"Began to weep, and so did Emily,\n" +"And all the ladies in the company.\n" +"Great pity was it as it thought them all,\n" +"That ever such a chance should befall,\n" +"For gentle men they were, of great estate,\n" +"And nothing but for love was this debate\n" +"They saw their bloody woundes wide and sore,\n" +"And cried all at once, both less and more,\n" +"\"Have mercy, Lord, upon us women all.\"\n" +"And on their bare knees adown they fall\n" +"And would have kissed his feet there as he stood,\n" +"Till at the last *aslaked was his mood* *his anger was\n" +"(For pity runneth soon in gentle heart); appeased*\n" +"And though at first for ire he quoke and start\n" +"He hath consider'd shortly in a clause\n" +"The trespass of them both, and eke the cause:\n" +"And although that his ire their guilt accused\n" +"Yet in his reason he them both excused;\n" +"As thus; he thoughte well that every man\n" +"Will help himself in love if that he can,\n" +"And eke deliver himself out of prison.\n" +"Of women, for they wepten ever-in-one:* *continually\n" +"And eke his hearte had compassion\n" +"And in his gentle heart he thought anon,\n" +"And soft unto himself he saide: \"Fie\n" +"Upon a lord that will have no mercy,\n" +"But be a lion both in word and deed,\n" +"To them that be in repentance and dread,\n" +"As well as-to a proud dispiteous* man *unpitying\n" +"That will maintaine what he first began.\n" +"That lord hath little of discretion,\n" +"That in such case *can no division*: *can make no distinction*\n" +"But weigheth pride and humbless *after one*.\" *alike*\n" +"And shortly, when his ire is thus agone,\n" +"He gan to look on them with eyen light*, *gentle, lenient*\n" +"And spake these same wordes *all on height.* *aloud*\n" +"\n" +"\"The god of love, ah! benedicite*, *bless ye him\n" +"How mighty and how great a lord is he!\n" +"Against his might there gaine* none obstacles, *avail, conquer\n" +"He may be called a god for his miracles\n" +"For he can maken at his owen guise\n" +"Of every heart, as that him list devise.\n" +"Lo here this Arcite, and this Palamon,\n" +"That quietly were out of my prison,\n" +"And might have lived in Thebes royally,\n" +"And weet* I am their mortal enemy, *knew\n" +"And that their death li'th in my might also,\n" +"And yet hath love, *maugre their eyen two*, *in spite of their eyes*\n" +"Y-brought them hither bothe for to die.\n" +"Now look ye, is not this an high folly?\n" +"Who may not be a fool, if but he love?\n" +"Behold, for Godde's sake that sits above,\n" +"See how they bleed! be they not well array'd?\n" +"Thus hath their lord, the god of love, them paid\n" +"Their wages and their fees for their service;\n" +"And yet they weene for to be full wise,\n" +"That serve love, for aught that may befall.\n" +"But this is yet the beste game* of all, *joke\n" +"That she, for whom they have this jealousy,\n" +"Can them therefor as muchel thank as me.\n" +"She wot no more of all this *hote fare*, *hot behaviour*\n" +"By God, than wot a cuckoo or an hare.\n" +"But all must be assayed hot or cold;\n" +"A man must be a fool, or young or old;\n" +"I wot it by myself *full yore agone*: *long years ago*\n" +"For in my time a servant was I one.\n" +"And therefore since I know of love's pain,\n" +"And wot how sore it can a man distrain*, *distress\n" +"As he that oft hath been caught in his last*, *snare <38>\n" +"I you forgive wholly this trespass,\n" +"At request of the queen that kneeleth here,\n" +"And eke of Emily, my sister dear.\n" +"And ye shall both anon unto me swear,\n" +"That never more ye shall my country dere* *injure\n" +"Nor make war upon me night nor day,\n" +"But be my friends in alle that ye may.\n" +"I you forgive this trespass *every deal*. *completely*\n" +"And they him sware *his asking* fair and well, *what he asked*\n" +"And him of lordship and of mercy pray'd,\n" +"And he them granted grace, and thus he said:\n" +"\n" +"\"To speak of royal lineage and richess,\n" +"Though that she were a queen or a princess,\n" +"Each of you both is worthy doubteless\n" +"To wedde when time is; but natheless\n" +"I speak as for my sister Emily,\n" +"For whom ye have this strife and jealousy,\n" +"Ye wot* yourselves, she may not wed the two *know\n" +"At once, although ye fight for evermo:\n" +"But one of you, *all be him loth or lief,* *whether or not he wishes*\n" +"He must *go pipe into an ivy leaf*: *\"go whistle\"*\n" +"This is to say, she may not have you both,\n" +"All be ye never so jealous, nor so wroth.\n" +"And therefore I you put in this degree,\n" +"That each of you shall have his destiny\n" +"As *him is shape*; and hearken in what wise *as is decreed for him*\n" +"Lo hear your end of that I shall devise.\n" +"My will is this, for plain conclusion\n" +"Withouten any replication*, *reply\n" +"If that you liketh, take it for the best,\n" +"That evereach of you shall go where *him lest*, *he pleases\n" +"Freely without ransom or danger;\n" +"And this day fifty weekes, *farre ne nerre*, *neither more nor less*\n" +"Evereach of you shall bring an hundred knights,\n" +"Armed for listes up at alle rights\n" +"All ready to darraine* her by bataille, *contend for\n" +"And this behete* I you withoute fail *promise\n" +"Upon my troth, and as I am a knight,\n" +"That whether of you bothe that hath might,\n" +"That is to say, that whether he or thou\n" +"May with his hundred, as I spake of now,\n" +"Slay his contrary, or out of listes drive,\n" +"Him shall I given Emily to wive,\n" +"To whom that fortune gives so fair a grace.\n" +"The listes shall I make here in this place.\n" +"*And God so wisly on my soule rue*, *may God as surely have\n" +"As I shall even judge be and true. mercy on my soul*\n" +"Ye shall none other ende with me maken\n" +"Than one of you shalle be dead or taken.\n" +"And if you thinketh this is well y-said,\n" +"Say your advice*, and hold yourselves apaid**. *opinion **satisfied\n" +"This is your end, and your conclusion.\"\n" +"Who looketh lightly now but Palamon?\n" +"Who springeth up for joye but Arcite?\n" +"Who could it tell, or who could it indite,\n" +"The joye that is maked in the place\n" +"When Theseus hath done so fair a grace?\n" +"But down on knees went every *manner wight*, *kind of person*\n" +"And thanked him with all their heartes' might,\n" +"And namely* these Thebans *ofte sithe*. *especially *oftentimes*\n" +"And thus with good hope and with hearte blithe\n" +"They take their leave, and homeward gan they ride\n" +"To Thebes-ward, with his old walles wide.\n" +"\n" +"I trow men woulde deem it negligence,\n" +"If I forgot to telle the dispence* *expenditure\n" +"Of Theseus, that went so busily\n" +"To maken up the listes royally,\n" +"That such a noble theatre as it was,\n" +"I dare well say, in all this world there n'as*. *was not\n" +"The circuit a mile was about,\n" +"Walled of stone, and ditched all without.\n" +"*Round was the shape, in manner of compass,\n" +"Full of degrees, the height of sixty pas* *see note <39>*\n" +"That when a man was set on one degree\n" +"He letted* not his fellow for to see. *hindered\n" +"Eastward there stood a gate of marble white,\n" +"Westward right such another opposite.\n" +"And, shortly to conclude, such a place\n" +"Was never on earth made in so little space,\n" +"For in the land there was no craftes-man,\n" +"That geometry or arsmetrike* can**, *arithmetic **knew\n" +"Nor pourtrayor*, nor carver of images, *portrait painter\n" +"That Theseus ne gave him meat and wages\n" +"The theatre to make and to devise.\n" +"And for to do his rite and sacrifice\n" +"He eastward hath upon the gate above,\n" +"In worship of Venus, goddess of love,\n" +"*Done make* an altar and an oratory; *caused to be made*\n" +"And westward, in the mind and in memory\n" +"Of Mars, he maked hath right such another,\n" +"That coste largely of gold a fother*. *a great amount\n" +"And northward, in a turret on the wall,\n" +"Of alabaster white and red coral\n" +"An oratory riche for to see,\n" +"In worship of Diane of chastity,\n" +"Hath Theseus done work in noble wise.\n" +"But yet had I forgotten to devise* *describe\n" +"The noble carving, and the portraitures,\n" +"The shape, the countenance of the figures\n" +"That weren in there oratories three.\n" +"\n" +"First in the temple of Venus may'st thou see\n" +"Wrought on the wall, full piteous to behold,\n" +"The broken sleepes, and the sikes* cold, *sighes\n" +"The sacred teares, and the waimentings*, *lamentings\n" +"The fiery strokes of the desirings,\n" +"That Love's servants in this life endure;\n" +"The oathes, that their covenants assure.\n" +"Pleasance and Hope, Desire, Foolhardiness,\n" +"Beauty and Youth, and Bawdry and Richess,\n" +"Charms and Sorc'ry, Leasings* and Flattery, *falsehoods\n" +"Dispence, Business, and Jealousy,\n" +"That wore of yellow goldes* a garland, *sunflowers <40>\n" +"And had a cuckoo sitting on her hand,\n" +"Feasts, instruments, and caroles and dances,\n" +"Lust and array, and all the circumstances\n" +"Of Love, which I reckon'd and reckon shall\n" +"In order, were painted on the wall,\n" +"And more than I can make of mention.\n" +"For soothly all the mount of Citheron,<41>\n" +"Where Venus hath her principal dwelling,\n" +"Was showed on the wall in pourtraying,\n" +"With all the garden, and the lustiness*. *pleasantness\n" +"Nor was forgot the porter Idleness,\n" +"Nor Narcissus the fair of *yore agone*, *olden times*\n" +"Nor yet the folly of King Solomon,\n" +"Nor yet the greate strength of Hercules,\n" +"Th' enchantments of Medea and Circes,\n" +"Nor of Turnus the hardy fierce courage,\n" +"The rich Croesus *caitif in servage.* <42> *abased into slavery*\n" +"Thus may ye see, that wisdom nor richess,\n" +"Beauty, nor sleight, nor strength, nor hardiness\n" +"Ne may with Venus holde champartie*, *divided possession <43>\n" +"For as her liste the world may she gie*. *guide\n" +"Lo, all these folk so caught were in her las* *snare\n" +"Till they for woe full often said, Alas!\n" +"Suffice these ensamples one or two,\n" +"Although I could reckon a thousand mo'.\n" +"\n" +"The statue of Venus, glorious to see\n" +"Was naked floating in the large sea,\n" +"And from the navel down all cover'd was\n" +"With waves green, and bright as any glass.\n" +"A citole <44> in her right hand hadde she,\n" +"And on her head, full seemly for to see,\n" +"A rose garland fresh, and well smelling,\n" +"Above her head her doves flickering\n" +"Before her stood her sone Cupido,\n" +"Upon his shoulders winges had he two;\n" +"And blind he was, as it is often seen;\n" +"A bow he bare, and arrows bright and keen.\n" +"\n" +"Why should I not as well eke tell you all\n" +"The portraiture, that was upon the wall\n" +"Within the temple of mighty Mars the Red?\n" +"All painted was the wall in length and brede* *breadth\n" +"Like to the estres* of the grisly place *interior chambers\n" +"That hight the great temple of Mars in Thrace,\n" +"In thilke* cold and frosty region, *that\n" +"There as Mars hath his sovereign mansion.\n" +"In which there dwelled neither man nor beast,\n" +"With knotty gnarry* barren trees old *gnarled\n" +"Of stubbes sharp and hideous to behold;\n" +"In which there ran a rumble and a sough*, *groaning noise\n" +"As though a storm should bursten every bough:\n" +"And downward from an hill under a bent* *slope\n" +"There stood the temple of Mars Armipotent,\n" +"Wrought all of burnish'd steel, of which th' entry\n" +"Was long and strait, and ghastly for to see.\n" +"And thereout came *a rage and such a vise*, *such a furious voice*\n" +"That it made all the gates for to rise.\n" +"The northern light in at the doore shone,\n" +"For window on the walle was there none\n" +"Through which men mighten any light discern.\n" +"The doors were all of adamant etern,\n" +"Y-clenched *overthwart and ende-long* *crossways and lengthways*\n" +"With iron tough, and, for to make it strong,\n" +"Every pillar the temple to sustain\n" +"Was tunne-great*, of iron bright and sheen. *thick as a tun (barrel)\n" +"There saw I first the dark imagining\n" +"Of felony, and all the compassing;\n" +"The cruel ire, as red as any glede*, *live coal\n" +"The picke-purse<45>, and eke the pale dread;\n" +"The smiler with the knife under the cloak,\n" +"The shepen* burning with the blacke smoke *stable <46>\n" +"The treason of the murd'ring in the bed,\n" +"The open war, with woundes all be-bled;\n" +"Conteke* with bloody knife, and sharp menace. *contention, discord\n" +"All full of chirking* was that sorry place. *creaking, jarring noise\n" +"The slayer of himself eke saw I there,\n" +"His hearte-blood had bathed all his hair:\n" +"The nail y-driven in the shode* at night, *hair of the head <47>\n" +"The colde death, with mouth gaping upright.\n" +"Amiddes of the temple sat Mischance,\n" +"With discomfort and sorry countenance;\n" +"Eke saw I Woodness* laughing in his rage, *Madness\n" +"Armed Complaint, Outhees*, and fierce Outrage; *Outcry\n" +"The carrain* in the bush, with throat y-corve**, *corpse **slashed\n" +"A thousand slain, and not *of qualm y-storve*; *dead of sickness*\n" +"The tyrant, with the prey by force y-reft;\n" +"The town destroy'd, that there was nothing left.\n" +"Yet saw I brent* the shippes hoppesteres, <48> *burnt\n" +"The hunter strangled with the wilde bears:\n" +"The sow freting* the child right in the cradle; *devouring <49>\n" +"The cook scalded, for all his longe ladle.\n" +"Nor was forgot, *by th'infortune of Mart* *through the misfortune\n" +"The carter overridden with his cart; of war*\n" +"Under the wheel full low he lay adown.\n" +"There were also of Mars' division,\n" +"The armourer, the bowyer*, and the smith, *maker of bows\n" +"That forgeth sharp swordes on his stith*. *anvil\n" +"And all above depainted in a tower\n" +"Saw I Conquest, sitting in great honour,\n" +"With thilke* sharpe sword over his head *that\n" +"Hanging by a subtle y-twined thread.\n" +"Painted the slaughter was of Julius<50>,\n" +"Of cruel Nero, and Antonius:\n" +"Although at that time they were yet unborn,\n" +"Yet was their death depainted there beforn,\n" +"By menacing of Mars, right by figure,\n" +"So was it showed in that portraiture,\n" +"As is depainted in the stars above,\n" +"Who shall be slain, or elles dead for love.\n" +"Sufficeth one ensample in stories old,\n" +"I may not reckon them all, though I wo'ld.\n" +"\n" +"The statue of Mars upon a carte* stood *chariot\n" +"Armed, and looked grim as he were wood*, *mad\n" +"And over his head there shone two figures\n" +"Of starres, that be cleped in scriptures,\n" +"That one Puella, that other Rubeus. <51>\n" +"This god of armes was arrayed thus:\n" +"A wolf there stood before him at his feet\n" +"With eyen red, and of a man he eat:\n" +"With subtle pencil painted was this story,\n" +"In redouting* of Mars and of his glory. *reverance, fear\n" +"\n" +"Now to the temple of Dian the chaste\n" +"As shortly as I can I will me haste,\n" +"To telle you all the descriptioun.\n" +"Depainted be the walles up and down\n" +"Of hunting and of shamefast chastity.\n" +"There saw I how woful Calistope,<52>\n" +"When that Dian aggrieved was with her,\n" +"Was turned from a woman to a bear,\n" +"And after was she made the lodestar*: *pole star\n" +"Thus was it painted, I can say no far*; *farther\n" +"Her son is eke a star as men may see.\n" +"There saw I Dane <53> turn'd into a tree,\n" +"I meane not the goddess Diane,\n" +"But Peneus' daughter, which that hight Dane.\n" +"There saw I Actaeon an hart y-maked*, *made\n" +"For vengeance that he saw Dian all naked:\n" +"I saw how that his houndes have him caught,\n" +"And freten* him, for that they knew him not. *devour\n" +"Yet painted was, a little farthermore\n" +"How Atalanta hunted the wild boar;\n" +"And Meleager, and many other mo',\n" +"For which Diana wrought them care and woe.\n" +"There saw I many another wondrous story,\n" +"The which me list not drawen to memory.\n" +"This goddess on an hart full high was set*, *seated\n" +"With smalle houndes all about her feet,\n" +"And underneath her feet she had a moon,\n" +"Waxing it was, and shoulde wane soon.\n" +"In gaudy green her statue clothed was,\n" +"With bow in hand, and arrows in a case*. *quiver\n" +"Her eyen caste she full low adown,\n" +"Where Pluto hath his darke regioun.\n" +"A woman travailing was her beforn,\n" +"But, for her child so longe was unborn,\n" +"Full piteously Lucina <54> gan she call,\n" +"And saide; \"Help, for thou may'st best of all.\"\n" +"Well could he painte lifelike that it wrought;\n" +"With many a florin he the hues had bought.\n" +"Now be these listes made, and Theseus,\n" +"That at his greate cost arrayed thus\n" +"The temples, and the theatre every deal*, *part <55>\n" +"When it was done, him liked wonder well.\n" +"\n" +"But stint* I will of Theseus a lite**, *cease speaking **little\n" +"And speak of Palamon and of Arcite.\n" +"The day approacheth of their returning,\n" +"That evereach an hundred knights should bring,\n" +"The battle to darraine* as I you told; *contest\n" +"And to Athens, their covenant to hold,\n" +"Hath ev'reach of them brought an hundred knights,\n" +"Well-armed for the war at alle rights.\n" +"And sickerly* there trowed** many a man, *surely <56> **believed\n" +"That never, sithen* that the world began, *since\n" +"For to speaken of knighthood of their hand,\n" +"As far as God hath maked sea and land,\n" +"Was, of so few, so noble a company.\n" +"For every wight that loved chivalry,\n" +"And would, *his thankes, have a passant name*, *thanks to his own\n" +"Had prayed, that he might be of that game, efforts, have a\n" +"And well was him, that thereto chosen was. surpassing name*\n" +"For if there fell to-morrow such a case,\n" +"Ye knowe well, that every lusty knight,\n" +"That loveth par amour, and hath his might\n" +"Were it in Engleland, or elleswhere,\n" +"They would, their thankes, willen to be there,\n" +"T' fight for a lady; Benedicite,\n" +"It were a lusty* sighte for to see. *pleasing\n" +"And right so fared they with Palamon;\n" +"With him there wente knightes many one.\n" +"Some will be armed in an habergeon,\n" +"And in a breast-plate, and in a gipon*; *short doublet.\n" +"And some will have *a pair of plates* large; *back and front armour*\n" +"And some will have a Prusse* shield, or targe; *Prussian\n" +"Some will be armed on their legges weel;\n" +"Some have an axe, and some a mace of steel.\n" +}; + +void setup() { + int i=0; + uint8_t c; + Serial.begin(9600); + do { + c = pgm_read_byte(knightsTale+i); + if (c) Serial.print(c,BYTE); + i++; + } while (c); + do { + c = pgm_read_byte(knightsTale2+i); + if (c) Serial.print(c,BYTE); + i++; + } while (c); +} +void loop() { +}