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

                                
                                     [6-text p 513] 
                                  
                                  What scholde make a longer tale of þis
                                
                                  Vnto his broþer bedde commen he is
                                
                                  And suche comfor[t] he ȝaf him for to gone
                                
                                  To Orliaunce þat vp sterte anone
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                                  And on his waie forwarde is he fare
                                
                                  In hope to be lessed of his care
                                
                                  Whan þeie were come almoste to þat Citee
                                
                                  Bot if were a tuo furlonge or þree
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                                  A ȝonge clerke romeynge by himselfe þei · mette
                                
                                  Whiche þat in latine þrefteli hem grette
                                
                                  And after þat seide he a wonder þinge
                                
                                  .I. knowe quod he þe cause of ȝoure comynge.
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                                  An er þei forþer any foote wente
                                
                                  He tolde hem al þat was in her en-tent
                                
                                  This briton clerke him asked of felawes
                                
                                  The whiche þat he had knowen in olde dawes
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                                  And he anseward him þat þei dede were
                                
                                  For whiche he wepped ful oft mony a tere
                                
                                  Downe of his hors Aurelius liht anone
                                
                                  And furþe wiþ þis Magicien is he gone
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                                  Home to his howse and maade hem wele att ese
                                
                                  Hem lakked no vitaile þat hem myht plese
                                
                                  So wele araide hous as þer was one
                                
                                  Aurelius in his lif ne sawe he none
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                                  He schewde him ar he went to soper
                                
                                  Forest Parkes ful of wilde dere
                                
                                  [þer sawe he hertes with hornes hyȝe /
                                
                                  The grettest that euer were se with ye /
                                
                                  He / say of hem An hunderid slayn with houndes
                                
                                  And some with Arowes bled & bitter woundes
                                
                                  He say whan voydid were thes wylde der
                                
                                  þe fauconers vp on A faire rever [Harl. 7333 folio 84b:2]  [[ Not in Harl. 1758, leaf 132, back. In Reg. 17 D xv, leaf 184, back.]] ]
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                                  And how fakons haue þe heron sleine
                                
                                  Than sawe he knyhtes Iusten in a pleine
                                
                                  And after þis he dide him suche plesance
                                
                                  That he him schewde his lady in a daunce

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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 364
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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