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

                                
                                  Lokeynge vpward vpon þis Emely
                                
                                  And sche a-ȝeine him kest a frendeliche eye [VIII. 131.]  [VIII. 124-6.] 
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                                  ffor wemmen as to speken in comune
                                
                                  The folowen al þe fauoure of fortune
                                
                                  And was al his chere as in his herte
                                
                                  Owte of þe grounde a fire infernale sterte [[a Fury, raised by Venus, IX. 4.]] 
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                                  ffrom Pluto sent att þe request of saturne
                                
                                  ffor whiche his hors for fere gan to torne [IX. 7.] 
                                
                                  And leped on side and foundrede as he leppe
                                
                                  And ar þat Arcite mai taken kepe
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                                  He Piht him on þe Pomel of his hede
                                
                                  That in þe place he leie as he were dede [IX. 8.] 
                                
                                  His breste to-brusten wiþ his sadel bowe
                                
                                  As blake he laye as any cole or crowe
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                                  So was þe blode ronne in his face
                                
                                  Anone he was borne owte of þe place [IX. 47.] 
                                
                                  Wiþe hert sore to Theseus paleys
                                
                                  Tho was he coruen oute of his herneys [IX. 13.] 
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                                  And in a bede ybrouht ful faire and blyue [IX. 48.] 
                                
                                  ffor he was ȝit in memorie and a lyue
                                
                                  And alweie cryeinge After Emelye [folio 34a] 
                                
                                  Duc Theseus whiþe all his companye [IX. 38.] 
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                                  Is comen to Athenes his Citee
                                
                                  Wiþ alle blisse and grete solempnite
                                
                                  Al be it þat þis a-ventur was fall
                                
                                  He nolde nouht discomford hem all
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                                  Men seinden eke þat Arcite schal not deye [IX. 26.] 
                                
                                  He schal bene heled of his maladie
                                
                                  And of anoþere [þing] þei were as feine
                                
                                  That of hem alle was þere none sleine [Bocc. makes many of them slain: 'Artifilio,' 'Cornisso' (VIII. 15), 'Rifeo,' 'Arione' (36), 'Narizio' (39), and others, and describes their funerals (X. 4-8).] 
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                                  Al were þei sore hurte and namely one
                                
                                  þat wiþe a spere was þrelled his breste bone
                                
                                  To oþere woundes. and to broken armes
                                
                                  Some hadden salue and somme hadden charmes [Boccaccio makes only a general mention of the care and comfort bestowed on the wounded (X. 10).] 
                                
                                  ffermacies of herbes and eke saue
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                                  Thei dronke for þei wolden hir liues haue

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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 77
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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