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

                                
                                  Vp springeþ speres. twenty fote on hiht
                                
                                  Oute gone þe swerdes as þe siluer briht
                                  Line 2608 
                                
                                  The helme þei to-hewen and to-schrede
                                
                                  Oute bresteþ þe blode. wiþ steren stremes rede
                                
                                  Wiþ myhty Maces þe bones þei to-breste [See VIII. 14, 29, 33, 40, 69, 81, &c.] 
                                
                                  He þoruhe þe þikkest on þe þronge gan þreste
                                  Line 2612 
                                
                                  Ther stumbles stedes stronge and downe gone al
                                
                                  He rolleþ vnder fote as doþe a bal
                                
                                  He foyneþ on his fote wiþ his tronchon [folio 33a] 
                                
                                  And he him hurteþ wiþ his hors adoune
                                  Line 2616 
                                
                                  He þoruhe þe body is hurte and sithen take
                                
                                  Maugre his hede and brouhte vnto þe stake
                                
                                  As forward was riht þere he must abide
                                
                                  An oþer is lad on þat oþer side
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                                  And som time doþe hem Theseus to reste
                                
                                  Hem to refresche and dringen if hem lest
                                
                                  ¶ fful oft a day haue þese Thebanes two [VIII. 12.] 
                                
                                  To-gedere ymet and wrowht his felaw woo
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                                  Vnhorsede haþe yche oþere of hem tweie
                                
                                  þere nas no tigre in þe vale of golgopheie
                                
                                  Whan þat hir whelpe is stole whanne it is lite [VIII. 26.] 
                                
                                  So cruel on þe hunt as is Arcite
                                  Line 2628 
                                
                                  ffor Ialouse herte vpon þis Palamon
                                
                                  Ne in Belmary ne is so fel lyon
                                
                                  That huntid is or for his hunger wode
                                
                                  Ne of his preie desireþ so þe blode
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                                  As Palamon is to sle is fo Arcite
                                
                                  The Ielous strokes on hire helmes bite
                                
                                  Oute renneþ þe blode on boþe hir sides rede
                                
                                  Some time an ende þere is of euery dede
                                  Line 2636 
                                
                                  ffor or þe sonne vnto þe rest wente
                                
                                  The stronge kinge Emetrius gan hente
                                
                                  This palamon as he fauht wiþ Arcite
                                
                                  And made his swerde depe in his flesche bite
                                  Line 2640 
                                
                                  And be þe for[ce] of twenty is he take
                                
                                  Vn-ȝolden and drawen to þe stake

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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 75
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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