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

                                
                                  ffor whiche þis noble duc as he wele canne
                                
                                  Comforteþe and honoureþe euery man.
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                                  And makeþ reuel al þe hole nyht [IX. 61.] 
                                
                                  Vnto þe straunge lordes as it was riht
                                
                                  Ne þer was holden no descomfytinge
                                
                                  Bot as a Iustenes or a torneyinge
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                                  ffor Sothely þere was none disconfiture
                                
                                  ffor fallinge nys bot aventure
                                
                                  Ne to [be] ladde be force to þe stake
                                
                                  Vn-ȝolden and wiþ twenty knyhtes take
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                                  A persone al a-lone wiþ-owten mo
                                
                                  And haried forþ by arme fote and to
                                
                                  And eke his stede dreuen forþe wiþ staue
                                
                                  Wiþ foote men boþe ȝemen and knaves
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                                  It was aritted him no velanie
                                
                                  Ther maie no man clepe it cowardie
                                
                                  ffor whiche a-none Duc Theseus lete crie
                                
                                  To stinte al rancor and envie
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                                  The gree as wele of þe o side as of þe oþere [IX. 54.] 
                                
                                  And eyþer side ylike as oþere broþere
                                
                                  And ȝaf hem ȝeftes after here degree [XII. 80.] 
                                
                                  And fully helde he feste daies þree [Fifteen days.] 
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                                  And Conveiede þe kynges worþelye
                                
                                  Oute of his toune a Iourney largely
                                
                                  And home went euery man þe riht weye [XII. 83.] 
                                
                                  There was no more bot fare wele and haue good daie
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                                  Of þis bataile .I. wil no more endite [folio 34b] 
                                
                                  Bot speke of Palamon and of Arcite
                                
                                  ¶ Swelleþe þe breste of Arcite and þe sore ['But [of the wounded] Arcita alone could not be cured; so much was he shattered inwardly by his fall' (X. 11).]  [See X. 11.] 
                                
                                  Encreseþ att his hert more and more
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                                  The clotred blode for any leche-crafte
                                
                                  Corrupteþ and is in his bouke. ylefte
                                
                                  Þat neyþer veinblode ne ventusinge
                                
                                  Ne drinke of herbes maie be his helpinge [Point from Boccaccio, differently turned (X. 13).] 
                                
                                  The vertue expulsif or anymal
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                                  ffro þilke vertue cleped natural

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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 78
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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