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

                                
                                  That he nys clad / and redy for to ryde
                                
                                  With hunte and horn / and houndes hym bisyde
                                
                                  ffor in his huntyng hath he swich delit
                                
                                  That it is / al his ioye and appetit
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                                  To been hym self / the grete hertes bane
                                
                                  ffor after Mars / he serueth now Diane
                                
                                  ¶ Cleer was the day / as I haue told er this
                                
                                  And Theseus / with alle ioye and blys
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                                  With his ypolita / the faire queene
                                
                                  And Emelie / clothed al in greene
                                
                                  On huntyng be they riden roially
                                
                                  And to the groue / that stood ful faste by
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                                  In which ther was an hert as men hym tolde
                                
                                  Duc Theseus / the streighte wey hath holde
                                
                                  And to the launde / he rideth hym ful right
                                
                                  ffor thider was the hert wont haue his flight
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                                  And ouer a brook / and so forth on his weye
                                
                                  This duc wol han a cours at hym / or tweye
                                
                                  With houndes swiche / as þat hym list comaunde
                                
                                  And whan this duc. was come vn to the launde
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                                  Vnder the sonne he looketh / and anon
                                
                                  He was war / of Arcite and Palamon
                                
                                  That foghten breme as it were boles two
                                
                                  The brighte swerdes / wenten to and fro
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                                  So hidously / that with the leeste strook
                                
                                  It semed / as it wolde felle an ook
                                
                                  But what they weere / no thyng he ne woot [folio 23b] 
                                
                                  This duc his courser / with the spores smoot
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                                  And at a stert he was bitwix hem two
                                
                                  And pulled out a swerd / and cryed Hoo
                                
                                  Namoore / vp on peyne / of lesyng of youre heed
                                
                                  By myghty Mars / he shal anon be deed
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                                  That smyteth any strook / þat I may seen
                                
                                  But telleth me / what myster men ye been
                                
                                  That been so hardy / for to fighten heer
                                
                                  With outen Iuge / or oother officer

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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 49
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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