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

The sheldes brighte / testers / and trappures Goldhewen helmes / hauberkes / cote armures 2500 Lordes in parementz / on hir coursers Knyghtes of retenue / and eek Squyers Nailynge the speres / and the helmes bokelynge Gyggynge of sheeldes / with layners lasynge 2504 Ther as nede is / they were no thyng ydel The fomy steedes / on the golden brydel Gnawynge / and faste the Armurers also With fyle and hamer / prykyng to and fro 2508 Yemen on foote / and communes many oon With shorte staues / thikke as they may goon Pipes / trompes / Nakers / Claryounes That in the bataille / blowen blody sownes 2512 The paleys ful of peples / vp and down Heer thre / ther ten / holdynge hir questioun Deuynynge / of thise Thebans knyghtes two Somme seyde thus / somme seyden it shal be so 2516 Somme helden with hym / with the blake berd Somme with the balled / somme with the thikke herd Somme seyde / he looked grym / and he wolde fighte He hath a Sparth / of .xx. pound of wighte 2520 Thus was the halle / ful of deuynynge Longe after / þat the sonne gan to sprynge ¶ The grete Theseus / þat of his sleepe awaked With mynstralcye / and noyse þat was maked 2524 Held yet the chambres / of his paleys ryche Til þat the Theban knyghtes / bothe yliche Honoured /. weren in to the paleys fet ¶ Duc Theseus / is at a wyndow set 2528 Arrayed / right as he weere a god in Trone The peple preeseth / thiderward ful soone Hym for to seen / and doon heigh reuerence And eek / to herkne his heste / and his sentence 2532 ¶ An heraud on a Scaffold / made an .oo. Til al the noyse / of the peple was ydo
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The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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