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

                                
                                  How Atthalante / hunted the wilde boor
                                
                                  And Meleagree / and many another mo
                                
                                  ffor which Diane / wroghte hym care and wo
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                                  Ther saw .I. many another wonder storie
                                
                                  The whiche / me list nat drawen to memorie
                                
                                  ¶ This goddesse on hert ful hye seet
                                
                                  With smale houndes / al aboute hir feet
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                                  And vnder nethe hir feet. she hadde a moone
                                
                                  Wexinge it was / and sholde wanye soone
                                
                                  In gaude grene / hir statue yclothed was
                                
                                  With bowe in honde / and arwes in a cas
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                                  Hir eyen caste she / ful lowe adown
                                
                                  Ther Pluto / hath his dirke Regioun
                                
                                  A womman trauailyng was hir biforn
                                
                                  But for hir child / so longe was unborn
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                                  fful pitously / lucina gan she calle
                                
                                  And seyde help / for thow mayst best of alle
                                
                                  Wel koude he peynte lyfly / that it wroghte
                                
                                  With many a floryn / he the hewes boghte
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                                  ¶ Now been thise listes maad / and Theseus
                                
                                  That at his grete cost arrayed thus
                                
                                  The temples / and the Theatre euery del
                                
                                  Whan it was doon / hym liked wonder wel
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                                  But stynte I wole / of Theseus alite
                                
                                  And speke of Palamon / and of Arcite
                                
                                  ¶ The day approcheth / of hir retournynge
                                
                                  That euerich / sholde an hundred knyghtes brynge
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                                  The bataille to darreyne / as I yow tolde [folio 28b] 
                                
                                  And til Atthenes / hir couenant for to holde
                                
                                  Hath euerich of hem / broght a hundred knyghtes
                                
                                  Wel armed for the werre / at alle rightes
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                                  And sikerly / ther trowed many a man
                                
                                  That neuere sithen / þat the world bigan
                                
                                  As for to speke / of knyghthod of hir hond
                                
                                  As fer / as god hath maked see and lond
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                                  Nas of so fewe / so noble a compaignye

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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 60
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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