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

Vp spryngeth speres / twenty foot on highte Out goon the swerdes / as the siluer brighte 2608 The helmes they tohewen / and to-shrede Out brest the blood / with sterne stremys rede With myghty maces / the bones they tobreste He thurgh the thikkest of the throng gan threste 2612 Ther stomblen steedes stronge / and doun gooth al He rolleth vnder foot as dooth a bal He foyneth on his feet with his tronchoun And he hym hurteth / with his hors adoun 2616 He thurgh the body is hurt and sithen ytake [folio 35a] Maugree his heed / and broght vn to the Stake As forward was / right there he moste abyde Another / lad is on that oother syde 2620 ¶ And som tyme / dooth hem Theseus to reste Hem to refresshe / and drynken if hem leste fful ofte a-day / haue thise Thebans two Togydre ymet and wroght his felawe wo 2624 Vnhorsed hath ech oother / of hem tweye Ther nas no tygre / in the vale of Galgopheye Whan þat hir whelp is stole / whan it is lyte So cruel on the hunte / as is Arcite 2628 ffor Ialous herte / vp on this Palamon Ne in Belmarye / ther nys so fel leon That hunted is / or for his hunger wood Ne of his praye / desireth so the blood 2632 As Palamon / to sleen his foo Arcite The Ialous strokes / on hir helmes byte Out renneth blood / on bothe hir sydes rede ¶ Som tyme an ende ther is / of euery dede 2636 ffor er the sonne / vn to the reste wente The stronge kyng Emetrius / gan hente This Palamon / as he faught with Arcite And made his swerd / depe in his flessh to byte 2640 And by the force of twenty / is he take Vnyolden / and ydrawen to the stake
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The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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