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

                                
                                  Yet was hir deeth / depeynted ther biforn
                                
                                  By manacynge of Mars / right by figure
                                
                                  So was it shewed / in that purtreyture
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                                  As is depeynted / in the Sertres aboue
                                
                                  Who shal be slayn / or ellis deed for loue
                                
                                  Suffiseth oon ensample / in stories olde
                                
                                  I may nat rekne hem alle / thogh I wolde
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                                  ¶ The Statue of Mars / vp on a Carte stood
                                
                                  Armed / and loked grym / as he were wood
                                
                                  And ouer his heed / ther shynen two figures
                                
                                  Of sterres / þat been clepyd in Scriptures
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                                  That oon Puella / that oother Rubeus
                                
                                  This god of armes / was arrayed thus
                                
                                  A wolf ther stood / bifore hym at his feet
                                
                                  With eyen rede / and of a man he eet
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                                  With subtil pencel / was depeynted this storie
                                
                                  In redoutynge of Mars / and of his glorie
                                
                                  ¶ Now to the temple / of Diane the chaste
                                
                                  As shortly as I kan / I wol me haste
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                                  To telle yow / al the discripsioun
                                
                                  Depeynted been the walles / vp and doun
                                
                                  Of huntyng and of shamefast chastitee
                                
                                  Ther saw .I. / how woful Calistopee
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                                  Whan þat Diane / agreued was with here [folio 28a] 
                                
                                  Was turned / fro a womman / til a Bere
                                
                                  And after was she maad / the lode sterre [// Vrsa maior] 
                                
                                  Thus was it peynted / I kan seye yow no ferre
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                                  Hir sone is eek a sterre / as men may see
                                
                                  Ther saw I Dane / yturned to a tree
                                
                                  I mene nat / the goddesse diane
                                
                                  But Penneus doghter / which þat highte Dane
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                                  ¶ Ther saw I Attheon / an hert ymaked
                                
                                  ffor vengeaunce / þat he saw Diane al naked
                                
                                  I seigh / how þat hise houndes haue hym caught
                                
                                  And freten hym / for þat they knewe hym naught
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                                  ¶ Yet peynted was / a litel ferther moor

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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 59
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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