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

                                
                                  The þrede bare him wiþ his bowe turkeys
                                
                                  Of brente golde was þe caas and eke þe herneys [XI. 35.] 
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                                  And riden forþe a pas wiþ sorweful chere
                                
                                  To-warde þe groue as ȝe schol after here
                                
                                  The noblest of þe grekes þat þere were [XI. 38.] 
                                
                                  Vpon her scholdres Cariden þe bere
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                                  Wiþ slake paas and yȝen rede and wete
                                
                                  Þoruhe-oute þe Cite be þe maistre strete
                                
                                  Þat sprad was al wiþ blake and wonder hihe
                                
                                  Riht of þe same is þe strete y-wrye
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                                  Vpon þe rihte honde went olde Egeus [Right and left of Palemone (XI. 40).]  [XI. 40.] 
                                
                                  And on þat oþer side Duc Theseus
                                
                                  Wiþ vesseles in hir honde of gold ful fine [In the hands of the noblest of the Greeks (XI. 37).]  [XI. 37.] 
                                
                                  Al ful of hony melke and blode and wyne. [XI. 40.] 
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                                  Eke Palamon wiþ full grete compaignye [folio 36b] 
                                
                                  And efter þat cam woofull Emelye
                                
                                  With fire in honde as was þat time þe gise
                                
                                  ffor to done þe Office of funerale seruise
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                                  Hihe Laboure and full apparaillinge [XI. 18.] 
                                
                                  Whas att þe seruise and att þe fire makeinge
                                
                                  That whiþe his grene top þe heuen rauhte [XI. 26.] 
                                
                                  And twenty faþome on brede þe armes strauhte
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                                  This to seine þe bowes were so brode
                                
                                  Of stre first þer was leide mony a lode [XI. 27.] 
                                
                                  Bot howe þe fire was maked vp on hihte [XI. 22-25.] 
                                
                                  Ne eke þe names howe þe trees hihte
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                                  As oke. fir. beche. aspe. alder holme popelere
                                
                                  Wylowe. elme. plane. asshe. Box. chasteine Binde Laurere
                                
                                  Mapul. þorne. berche. hasul. ewe. whipiltre
                                
                                  Howe þei were felde schal nouht be tolde for me
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                                  Ne howe þe goddes ronnen vp and doune.
                                
                                  Disherited of here habitacioune
                                
                                  In whiche þe wonden in rest and pes
                                
                                  Nimphes faunes and amadries
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                                  Ne howe þe bestes and þe birdes all [XI. 21.] 
                                
                                  ffledden for ferde whan þe [wood] was fall

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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 83
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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