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

And whan he sawe þe peple of noyse al still Thus schewed he þe myhty dukes will 2536 ¶ The lorde haþ of his hihe discrecione [See VII. 7-13.] Considered þat it were destructione To gentil blode to fihten in þis gise Of Mortaile bataile nowe in þis emprise [VII. 7.] 2540 Whare-for to schapen þat þei schal not deye He will his first purpos modefye No man þar-fore vpon peine on his lif [VII. 12. [no lances allowed in Boccaccio]] No manere schotte ne polax ne schorte knyfe 2544 In to þe listes sende ne þeder bringe Ne schort swerde for to stoke wiþ pointe biteinge. No man ne drauhe ne bere it be his side Noman schal vn to his felawe ride 2548 Bot oo cours wiþ a scharpe ygrounde spere ffoyne if him list on fote him self to were And [he] þat is att Meschef schal be take [VII. 131-132.] And nouht sleine bot be brouht vnto þe stake 2552 That schal bene ordeined on eyþer side But þider he schal be force and þare abide And if so fal þe Cheftaigne be take On eyþer side or elles sleine his make 2556 No longer schal þe tornynge last God sped ȝow go forþe and laie on fast Wiþ longe swerdes and wiþ maces fihten ȝoure fill [VII. 12 [and with 'bipenne'].] Go nowe ȝoure weie þis is þe lordes will 2560 The voice of þe peple touched heuen [VII. 14.] So loude cried þei wiþ mery steuene God saue suche a lorde þat is so goode He wilneþ no destruction of mannes blode 2564 Vp goþe þe trompes and þe melodie And to þe listes rydeþ þe compaignie Be ordinance þoruhe oute þe Cite large Honged wiþ cloþe of golde and nouht wiþ sarge 2568 fful like a lorde þis noble Duc gan ride [See VII. 100-102.] The tuo Thebanes vpon eyþer side.
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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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