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

                                
                                  Ne how the ground / agast was of the lyght
                                
                                  That was nat wont to seen the sonne bright
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                                  Ne how the fyr / was couched first with stree
                                
                                  And thanne with drye stikkes / clouen a three
                                
                                  And thanne with grene wode / and spicerye
                                
                                  And thanne with clooth of gold / and with perrye
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                                  And gerlandes hangynge / ful of many a flour [folio 39a] 
                                
                                  The Mirre / thencens / with al so greet sauour
                                
                                  Ne how Arcite / lay among al this
                                
                                  Ne what richesse / aboute the body is
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                                  Ne how that Emelye / as was the gyse
                                
                                  Putte in the fyr / of funeral seruyse
                                
                                  Ne how she swowned / whan men made the fyr
                                
                                  Ne what she spak ne what was hir desir
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                                  Ne what Iuels / men in the fyr caste
                                
                                  Whan þat the fyr was greet and brente faste
                                
                                  Ne how somme caste hir sheeld / and somme hir spere
                                
                                  And of hir vestimentz / whiche þat they were
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                                  And coppes fulle of Milk / and wyn and blood
                                
                                  In to the fyr / þat brente as it were wood
                                
                                  Ne how the Grekys / with An huge route
                                
                                  Thries ryden / al the fyr aboute
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                                  Vp on the left hand / with a loud shoutynge
                                
                                  And thries / with hir speres claterynge
                                
                                  And thries / how the ladyes gonne crye
                                
                                  And how þat lad / was homward Emelye
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                                  Ne how Arcite / is brent to Asshen colde
                                
                                  Ne how that lychwake / was yholde
                                
                                  Al thilke nyght ne how the grekys pleye
                                
                                  The wake pleyes / ne kepe I noght to seye
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                                  Who wrastleth best naked / with oille enoynt
                                
                                  Ne who þat baar hym best in no disioynt
                                
                                  I wol nat tellen al / how [that] they goon
                                
                                  Hoom til Atthenes / whan the pleye is doon
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                                  But shortly to the poynt than wol I wende
                                
                                  And maken / of my longe tale an ende

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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 84
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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