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

                                
                                  That Theseus / the noble Conquerour
                                
                                  Dooth to the ladyes / whan they from hym wente
                                
                                  But shortly for to telle / is myn entente
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                                  ¶ Whan þat this worthy duc this Theseus
                                
                                  Hath Creon slayn / and wonne Thebes thus
                                
                                  Stille in that feeld / he took al nyght his reste
                                
                                  And dide with al the contree / as hym leste
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                                  ¶ To ransake in the taas / of the bodyes dede
                                
                                  Hem for to strepe / of harneys and of wede
                                
                                  The pilours / diden bisynesse and cure
                                
                                  After the bataille and disconfiture
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                                  And so bifel / þat in the taas they founde
                                
                                  Thurgh girt with many a greuous blody wounde
                                
                                  Two yonge knyghtes / liggynge by and by
                                
                                  Bothe in oon Armes / wroght ful richely
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                                  Of whiche two / Arcita highte that oon
                                
                                  And that oother knyght / highte Palamon
                                
                                  Nat fully quyke / ne fully dede they were
                                
                                  But by here Cote Armures / and by hir gere
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                                  The heraudes / knewe hem best in special
                                
                                  As they þat weren / of the blood roial
                                
                                  Of Thebes / and of sustren two yborn
                                
                                  Out of the taas / the pilours han hem torn
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                                  And han hem caried / softe vn to the tente
                                
                                  Of Theseus / and ful soone he hem sente
                                
                                  To Atthenes / to dwellen in prison
                                
                                  Perpetuelly / he nolde no raunson
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                                  And whan this worthy duc hath thus ydon
                                
                                  He took his hoost and hoom he rood anon
                                
                                  With laurer crowned / as a Conquerour
                                
                                  And ther he lyueth / in ioye and in honour
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                                  Terme of [his] lyue / what nedeth wordes mo
                                
                                  And in a tour / in angwissh and in wo
                                
                                  This Palamon / and his felawe Arcite
                                
                                  ffor eueremoore / ther may no gold hem quite
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                                  ¶ This passeth / yeer by yeer / and day by day

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 30
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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