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// Text is an extract from The Canterbury Tales
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// Full text at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/cbtls12.txt
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#include <avr/pgmspace.h>
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const char knightsTale[] PROGMEM= {
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" THE KNIGHT'S TALE <1>\n"
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"\n"
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"WHILOM*, as olde stories tellen us, *formerly\n"
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"There was a duke that highte* Theseus. *was called <2>\n"
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"Of Athens he was lord and governor,\n"
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"And in his time such a conqueror\n"
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"That greater was there none under the sun.\n"
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"Full many a riche country had he won.\n"
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"What with his wisdom and his chivalry,\n"
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"He conquer'd all the regne of Feminie,<3>\n"
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"That whilom was y-cleped Scythia;\n"
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"And weddede the Queen Hippolyta\n"
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"And brought her home with him to his country\n"
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"With muchel* glory and great solemnity, *great\n"
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"And eke her younge sister Emily,\n"
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"And thus with vict'ry and with melody\n"
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"Let I this worthy Duke to Athens ride,\n"
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"And all his host, in armes him beside.\n"
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"\n"
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"And certes, if it n'ere* too long to hear, *were not\n"
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"I would have told you fully the mannere,\n"
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"How wonnen* was the regne of Feminie, <4> *won\n"
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"By Theseus, and by his chivalry;\n"
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"And of the greate battle for the nonce\n"
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"Betwixt Athenes and the Amazons;\n"
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"And how assieged was Hippolyta,\n"
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"The faire hardy queen of Scythia;\n"
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"And of the feast that was at her wedding\n"
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"And of the tempest at her homecoming.\n"
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"But all these things I must as now forbear.\n"
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"I have, God wot, a large field to ear* *plough<5>;\n"
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"And weake be the oxen in my plough;\n"
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"The remnant of my tale is long enow.\n"
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"I will not *letten eke none of this rout*. *hinder any of\n"
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"Let every fellow tell his tale about, this company*\n"
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"And let see now who shall the supper win.\n"
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"There *as I left*, I will again begin. *where I left off*\n"
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"\n"
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"This Duke, of whom I make mentioun,\n"
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"When he was come almost unto the town,\n"
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"In all his weal, and in his moste pride,\n"
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"He was ware, as he cast his eye aside,\n"
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"Where that there kneeled in the highe way\n"
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"A company of ladies, tway and tway,\n"
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"Each after other, clad in clothes black:\n"
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"But such a cry and such a woe they make,\n"
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"That in this world n'is creature living,\n"
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"That hearde such another waimenting* *lamenting <6>\n"
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"And of this crying would they never stenten*, *desist\n"
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"Till they the reines of his bridle henten*. *seize\n"
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"\"What folk be ye that at mine homecoming\n"
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"Perturben so my feaste with crying?\"\n"
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"Quoth Theseus; \"Have ye so great envy\n"
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"Of mine honour, that thus complain and cry?\n"
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"Or who hath you misboden*, or offended? *wronged\n"
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"Do telle me, if it may be amended;\n"
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"And why that ye be clad thus all in black?\"\n"
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"\n"
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"The oldest lady of them all then spake,\n"
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"When she had swooned, with a deadly cheer*, *countenance\n"
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"That it was ruthe* for to see or hear. *pity\n"
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"She saide; \"Lord, to whom fortune hath given\n"
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"Vict'ry, and as a conqueror to liven,\n"
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"Nought grieveth us your glory and your honour;\n"
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"But we beseechen mercy and succour.\n"
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"Have mercy on our woe and our distress;\n"
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"Some drop of pity, through thy gentleness,\n"
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"Upon us wretched women let now fall.\n"
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"For certes, lord, there is none of us all\n"
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"That hath not been a duchess or a queen;\n"
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"Now be we caitives*, as it is well seen: *captives\n"
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"Thanked be Fortune, and her false wheel,\n"
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"That *none estate ensureth to be wele*. *assures no continuance of\n"
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"And certes, lord, t'abiden your presence prosperous estate*\n"
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"Here in this temple of the goddess Clemence\n"
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"We have been waiting all this fortenight:\n"
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"Now help us, lord, since it lies in thy might.\n"
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"\n"
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"\"I, wretched wight, that weep and waile thus,\n"
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"Was whilom wife to king Capaneus,\n"
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"That starf* at Thebes, cursed be that day: *died <7>\n"
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"And alle we that be in this array,\n"
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"And maken all this lamentatioun,\n"
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"We losten all our husbands at that town,\n"
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"While that the siege thereabouten lay.\n"
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"And yet the olde Creon, wellaway!\n"
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"That lord is now of Thebes the city,\n"
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"Fulfilled of ire and of iniquity,\n"
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"He for despite, and for his tyranny,\n"
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"To do the deade bodies villainy*, *insult\n"
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"Of all our lorde's, which that been y-slaw, *slain\n"
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"Hath all the bodies on an heap y-draw,\n"
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"And will not suffer them by none assent\n"
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"Neither to be y-buried, nor y-brent*, *burnt\n"
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"But maketh houndes eat them in despite.\"\n"
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"And with that word, withoute more respite\n"
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"They fallen groff,* and cryden piteously; *grovelling\n"
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"\"Have on us wretched women some mercy,\n"
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"And let our sorrow sinken in thine heart.\"\n"
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"\n"
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"This gentle Duke down from his courser start\n"
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"With hearte piteous, when he heard them speak.\n"
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"Him thoughte that his heart would all to-break,\n"
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"When he saw them so piteous and so mate* *abased\n"
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"That whilom weren of so great estate.\n"
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"And in his armes he them all up hent*, *raised, took\n"
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"And them comforted in full good intent,\n"
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"And swore his oath, as he was true knight,\n"
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"He woulde do *so farforthly his might* *as far as his power went*\n"
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"Upon the tyrant Creon them to wreak*, *avenge\n"
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"That all the people of Greece shoulde speak,\n"
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"How Creon was of Theseus y-served,\n"
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"As he that had his death full well deserved.\n"
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"And right anon withoute more abode* *delay\n"
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"His banner he display'd, and forth he rode\n"
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"To Thebes-ward, and all his, host beside:\n"
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"No ner* Athenes would he go nor ride, *nearer\n"
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"Nor take his ease fully half a day,\n"
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"But onward on his way that night he lay:\n"
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"And sent anon Hippolyta the queen,\n"
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"And Emily her younge sister sheen* *bright, lovely\n"
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"Unto the town of Athens for to dwell:\n"
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"And forth he rit*; there is no more to tell. *rode\n"
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"\n"
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"The red statue of Mars with spear and targe* *shield\n"
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"So shineth in his white banner large\n"
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"That all the fieldes glitter up and down:\n"
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"And by his banner borne is his pennon\n"
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"Of gold full rich, in which there was y-beat* *stamped\n"
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"The Minotaur<8> which that he slew in Crete\n"
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"Thus rit this Duke, thus rit this conqueror\n"
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"And in his host of chivalry the flower,\n"
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"Till that he came to Thebes, and alight\n"
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"Fair in a field, there as he thought to fight.\n"
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"But shortly for to speaken of this thing,\n"
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"With Creon, which that was of Thebes king,\n"
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"He fought, and slew him manly as a knight\n"
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"In plain bataille, and put his folk to flight:\n"
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"And by assault he won the city after,\n"
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"And rent adown both wall, and spar, and rafter;\n"
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"And to the ladies he restored again\n"
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"The bodies of their husbands that were slain,\n"
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"To do obsequies, as was then the guise*. *custom\n"
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"\n"
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"But it were all too long for to devise* *describe\n"
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"The greate clamour, and the waimenting*, *lamenting\n"
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"Which that the ladies made at the brenning* *burning\n"
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"Of the bodies, and the great honour\n"
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"That Theseus the noble conqueror\n"
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"Did to the ladies, when they from him went:\n"
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"But shortly for to tell is mine intent.\n"
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"When that this worthy Duke, this Theseus,\n"
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"Had Creon slain, and wonnen Thebes thus,\n"
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"Still in the field he took all night his rest,\n"
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"And did with all the country as him lest*. *pleased\n"
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"To ransack in the tas* of bodies dead, *heap\n"
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"Them for to strip of *harness and of **weed, *armour **clothes\n"
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"The pillers* did their business and cure, *pillagers <9>\n"
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"After the battle and discomfiture.\n"
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"And so befell, that in the tas they found,\n"
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"Through girt with many a grievous bloody wound,\n"
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"Two younge knightes *ligging by and by* *lying side by side*\n"
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"Both in *one armes*, wrought full richely: *the same armour*\n"
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"Of whiche two, Arcita hight that one,\n"
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"And he that other highte Palamon.\n"
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"Not fully quick*, nor fully dead they were, *alive\n"
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"But by their coat-armour, and by their gear,\n"
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"The heralds knew them well in special,\n"
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"As those that weren of the blood royal\n"
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"Of Thebes, and *of sistren two y-born*. *born of two sisters*\n"
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"Out of the tas the pillers have them torn,\n"
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"And have them carried soft unto the tent\n"
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"Of Theseus, and he full soon them sent\n"
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"To Athens, for to dwellen in prison\n"
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"Perpetually, he *n'olde no ranson*. *would take no ransom*\n"
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"And when this worthy Duke had thus y-done,\n"
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"He took his host, and home he rit anon\n"
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"With laurel crowned as a conquerour;\n"
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"And there he lived in joy and in honour\n"
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"Term of his life; what needeth wordes mo'?\n"
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"And in a tower, in anguish and in woe,\n"
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"Dwellen this Palamon, and eke Arcite,\n"
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"For evermore, there may no gold them quite* *set free\n"
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"\n"
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"Thus passed year by year, and day by day,\n"
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"Till it fell ones in a morn of May\n"
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"That Emily, that fairer was to seen\n"
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"Than is the lily upon his stalke green,\n"
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"And fresher than the May with flowers new\n"
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"(For with the rose colour strove her hue;\n"
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"I n'ot* which was the finer of them two), *know not\n"
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"Ere it was day, as she was wont to do,\n"
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"She was arisen, and all ready dight*, *dressed\n"
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"For May will have no sluggardy a-night;\n"
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"The season pricketh every gentle heart,\n"
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"And maketh him out of his sleep to start,\n"
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"And saith, \"Arise, and do thine observance.\"\n"
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"\n"
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"This maketh Emily have remembrance\n"
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"To do honour to May, and for to rise.\n"
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"Y-clothed was she fresh for to devise;\n"
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"Her yellow hair was braided in a tress,\n"
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"Behind her back, a yarde long I guess.\n"
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"And in the garden at *the sun uprist* *sunrise\n"
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"She walketh up and down where as her list.\n"
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"She gathereth flowers, party* white and red, *mingled\n"
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"To make a sotel* garland for her head, *subtle, well-arranged\n"
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"And as an angel heavenly she sung.\n"
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"The greate tower, that was so thick and strong,\n"
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"Which of the castle was the chief dungeon<10>\n"
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"(Where as these knightes weren in prison,\n"
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"Of which I tolde you, and telle shall),\n"
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"Was even joinant* to the garden wall, *adjoining\n"
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"There as this Emily had her playing.\n"
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"\n"
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"Bright was the sun, and clear that morrowning,\n"
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"And Palamon, this woful prisoner,\n"
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"As was his wont, by leave of his gaoler,\n"
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"Was ris'n, and roamed in a chamber on high,\n"
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"In which he all the noble city sigh*, *saw\n"
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"And eke the garden, full of branches green,\n"
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"There as this fresh Emelia the sheen\n"
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"Was in her walk, and roamed up and down.\n"
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"This sorrowful prisoner, this Palamon\n"
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"Went in his chamber roaming to and fro,\n"
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"And to himself complaining of his woe:\n"
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"That he was born, full oft he said, Alas!\n"
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"And so befell, by aventure or cas*, *chance\n"
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"That through a window thick of many a bar\n"
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"Of iron great, and square as any spar,\n"
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"He cast his eyes upon Emelia,\n"
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"And therewithal he blent* and cried, Ah! *started aside\n"
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"As though he stungen were unto the heart.\n"
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"And with that cry Arcite anon up start,\n"
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"And saide, \"Cousin mine, what aileth thee,\n"
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"That art so pale and deadly for to see?\n"
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"Why cried'st thou? who hath thee done offence?\n"
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"For Godde's love, take all in patience\n"
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"Our prison*, for it may none other be. *imprisonment\n"
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"Fortune hath giv'n us this adversity'.\n"
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"Some wick'* aspect or disposition *wicked\n"
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"Of Saturn<11>, by some constellation,\n"
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"Hath giv'n us this, although we had it sworn,\n"
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"So stood the heaven when that we were born,\n"
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"We must endure; this is the short and plain.\n"
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"\n"
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"This Palamon answer'd, and said again:\n"
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"\"Cousin, forsooth of this opinion\n"
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"Thou hast a vain imagination.\n"
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"This prison caused me not for to cry;\n"
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"But I was hurt right now thorough mine eye\n"
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"Into mine heart; that will my bane* be. *destruction\n"
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"The fairness of the lady that I see\n"
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"Yond in the garden roaming to and fro,\n"
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"Is cause of all my crying and my woe.\n"
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"I *n'ot wher* she be woman or goddess, *know not whether*\n"
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"But Venus is it, soothly* as I guess, *truly\n"
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"And therewithal on knees adown he fill,\n"
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"And saide: \"Venus, if it be your will\n"
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"You in this garden thus to transfigure\n"
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"Before me sorrowful wretched creature,\n"
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"Out of this prison help that we may scape.\n"
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"And if so be our destiny be shape\n"
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"By etern word to dien in prison,\n"
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"Of our lineage have some compassion,\n"
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"That is so low y-brought by tyranny.\"\n"
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"\n"
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"And with that word Arcita *gan espy* *began to look forth*\n"
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"Where as this lady roamed to and fro\n"
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"And with that sight her beauty hurt him so,\n"
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"That if that Palamon was wounded sore,\n"
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"Arcite is hurt as much as he, or more.\n"
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"And with a sigh he saide piteously:\n"
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"\"The freshe beauty slay'th me suddenly\n"
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"Of her that roameth yonder in the place.\n"
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"And but* I have her mercy and her grace, *unless\n"
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"That I may see her at the leaste way,\n"
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"I am but dead; there is no more to say.\"\n"
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"This Palamon, when he these wordes heard,\n"
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"Dispiteously* he looked, and answer'd: *angrily\n"
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"\"Whether say'st thou this in earnest or in play?\"\n"
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"\"Nay,\" quoth Arcite, \"in earnest, by my fay*. *faith\n"
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"God help me so, *me lust full ill to play*.\" *I am in no humour\n"
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"This Palamon gan knit his browes tway. for jesting*\n"
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"\"It were,\" quoth he, \"to thee no great honour\n"
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"For to be false, nor for to be traitour\n"
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};
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void setup() {
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int i=0;
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uint8_t c;
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Serial.begin(115200);
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do {
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c = pgm_read_byte(knightsTale+i);
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if (c) Serial.write(c);
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i++;
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} while (c);
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}
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void loop() {
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}
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