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

                                
                                  The thridde bar with hym / his bowe Turkeys
                                
                                  Of brend gold / was the caas / and eek the harneys
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                                  And ryden forth a paas / with sorweful cheere [folio 38b] 
                                
                                  Toward the groue / as ye shul after heere
                                
                                  The nobleste of the Grekys / þat ther were
                                
                                  Vp on hir shuldres / carieden the beere
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                                  With slak[e] paas / and eyen rede and weete
                                
                                  Thurgh out the Citee / by the maister streete
                                
                                  That sprad was al with blak and wonder hye
                                
                                  Right of the same / is the strete ywrye
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                                  Vp on the right hand / wente olde Egeus
                                
                                  And on that oother syde / Duc Theseus
                                
                                  With vessels in hir hand / of gold ful fyn
                                
                                  As ful of hony / melk / and blood and wyn
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                                  Eek Palamon / with ful greet compaignye
                                
                                  And after that / cam woful Emelye
                                
                                  With fyr in hande / as was that tyme the gyse
                                
                                  To do the office / of funeral seruyse
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                                  ¶ Heigh labour / and greet apparaillynge
                                
                                  Was at the seruyce / and the fyr makynge
                                
                                  That with his grene tope / the heuene raughte
                                
                                  And twenty fadme of brede / the armes straughte
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                                  This is to seyn / the bowes / were so brode
                                
                                  Of stree first ther was leyd many a lode
                                
                                  But how the fyr was maked vp on highte
                                
                                  Ne eek the names / how the trees highte
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                                  As ook / ffyrre / Birch / Asp / Alder / holm / popler
                                
                                  Wylow / Elm / Plane / Assh / Box / Chestayn / lynde / laurer
                                
                                  Mapul / Thorn / Beech / hasyl / Ew / Whippultree
                                
                                  How they were feld / shal nat been told for me
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                                  Ne how the goddes / ronnen vp and doun
                                
                                  Desherited / of hir habitacioun
                                
                                  In which they woneden / in reste and pees
                                
                                  Nymphes / ffawnes / and Amadrides
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                                  Ne how the beestes / and the bryddes alle
                                
                                  ffledden / for fered / whan the wode was falle

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 83
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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