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

The Scheldes briht testeres and trappures Gold hewen helmes hawberkes cote armures 2500 Lordes in paramentes on hir courseres Knyhtes of Retenu and eke swieres Naillinge þe speres and helmes bokelynge Gideinge of scheldes wiþ layners lasinge 2504 There as nede is þei were no þinge ydel The fomy stedes on þe golden bridel [VII. 97.] Gnawen and faste þe armureres also Wiþ file and hamur prikinge to and fro 2508 Ȝomen on fote and comune mony one Wiþ schort staues riht as þei mai gone Pipes trompes nakers clarions þat in þe retaile blewe blodi sownes 2512 The Paleis ful of peple vp and doune [VII. 99.] Here þre þer ten holdeinge her questioune [VII. 98.] Deuyneinge of þis thebane knyhtes tuo Som seide þus sum seide it schal be so 2516 Some holden wiþ him wiþ þe blake berde Some wiþ þe balle some wiþ þe þikke herede Some seide he loked grimme and he wolde fihte He haþ a sparþe of .xx. pounde of wihte 2520 Thus was þe hal ful of diuineinge Longe after þat þe sonne gan to springe The grete Theseus þat of his slepe awaked [VII. 96.] Wiþ mynstralcye and noys þat was maked 2524 Held ȝite þe Chambres of his palays riche Til þat þe Thebanes knyhtes boþen yliche Honorable weren in to þe Palays ffette Duc Theseus is att þe window sette 2528 Arraide riht as he were a god in Throne [folio 32a] The peple presed þederwarde ful sone Him for to seyn and done hihe reuerence And eke to herken his heste and his sentence 2532 An heraude on a scafold maad an hoo Til all þe noys of þe peple was . y-doo
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The Lansdowne 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,
1867-1879.

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