The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And whan he say þe pepul of noyse al stille
                                
                                  Thus schewed he þe mighty dukes wille
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                                  The lord hath of his heigh discrecion
                                
                                  Considered þat it were destruccion
                                
                                  To gentil blood to fighten in þis gise
                                
                                  Of mortel bataille now in þis emprise
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                                  Wher fore to schapen þat þei schal not deye
                                
                                  He wol his ferste purpos modifye
                                
                                  No man þerfore vpon peyne of his lyf
                                
                                  No maner schot ne pollax ne schort knyf
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                                  In to þe lystes sende or þider brynge
                                
                                  Ne schort swerd for to stoke with poynt bytynge
                                
                                  No man ne drawe ne bere it by his syde
                                
                                  No man schal to his felawe ride
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                                  But oo cours with a scharp y-grounde spere
                                
                                  ffoyne if him list on foote himself to were /
                                
                                  And he þat is at meschief schal be take
                                
                                  And nought slain but be brought vnto þe stake
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                                  That schal ben ordeyned on eyþer syde /
                                
                                  But þider he schal be force and þer abyde / [folio 36b] 
                                
                                  And if so falle þe cheuentein be take /
                                
                                  On eyther syde or elles sleen his make
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                                  No lenger ne schal þe torneyenge laste
                                
                                  God speede ȝou go forth and lay on faste /
                                
                                  Wiþ longe swerdes and ȝour maces fighteþ ȝour fille
                                
                                  Go now your wey þis is þe lordes wille
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                                  The voys of þe poeple touchede heuene
                                
                                  So lowde criede þei with merie steuene
                                
                                  God saf swich a lord þat is so good
                                
                                  He wilneþ no distruction of blood
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                                  Vp goþ þe trompes and þe melodye
                                
                                  And to þe listes ritte the compaignye
                                
                                  By ordinance þorugh out þe cite large
                                
                                  Hanged wiþ cloþ of gold and nought with Sarge /
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                                  fful lik a lord this noble duk gan ryde
                                
                                  These tuo Thebanes vpon eyþer syde

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 73
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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