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

                                
                                  And aftere rode þe queene and Emely [folio 32b] 
                                
                                  And after þat an oþer compaignie [VII. 113-4.] 
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                                  Of one and oþer after here degre
                                
                                  And þus þei passen þurgh oute þe Citee
                                
                                  And to þe listes come þei be time
                                
                                  It was nouht of þe daie ȝit fulliche prime
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                                  ¶ Whan sette was Theseus ful riche and hihe
                                
                                  Ipolita þe queene and Emelye
                                
                                  And oþer ladyes in degres a-boute
                                
                                  Vn-to þe setes preseþ all þe route.
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                                  And westwa þoruhe þe gates vnder Marte [Arcita (in Boccaccio) comes from the quarter of 'Euro' (VII. 114): Pale|mone comes 'Dall' altra parte' (VII. 118). No mention is made by Boccaccio of their banners being red and white.]  [VII. 114.] 
                                
                                  Arcite and eke þe hundreþ of his parte
                                
                                  Wiþ baner rede is entred riht anone
                                
                                  And in þat selfe moment Palamon. [VII. 118.] 
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                                  Is vnder venus est-warde in þe place
                                
                                  Wiþ banere white and hardy chere and face
                                
                                  In al þe werlde to seken vpe and doune [VII. 19.] 
                                
                                  So euen wiþ-oute variacioune
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                                  þer ner suche companyes tweye
                                
                                  ffor þere was none so wise þat couþe seye
                                
                                  Þat any had of oþere auantage
                                
                                  Of worþinesse ne of state of age;
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                                  So euen were þei Chosen for to gesse
                                
                                  And in to Rynges faire þei hem dresse
                                
                                  ¶ Whan þat here names were rad euerychone
                                
                                  That in hir nombre gile were þere none
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                                  Tho was þe gates schette and cried was lowde
                                
                                  Do nowe ȝowre deuere ȝonge knyhtes prowde
                                
                                  The herawdes left he prikinge vpe and downe
                                
                                  Nowe ringen trompes loude and clarioune [VIII. 5.] 
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                                  The[r] is no more to seine west or est
                                
                                  In goþe þe speres ful sadly in a rest
                                
                                  In goþe þe scharpe spere in to þe side [VIII. 7.] 
                                
                                  Ther seen men who kan Iusten and who can ride
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                                  Ther schyueren schaftes vp on scheldes þikke
                                
                                  He fileþ þoruhe þe hert spone þe prike

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 74
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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