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

                                
                                  That Theus þe nobul conqueroure
                                
                                  Doþe to þe bodies whan þei from him went
                                
                                  Bot schortely to tellen is myne entente
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                                  Whan þat þis worþi Duc þis Theseus [II. 74.] 
                                
                                  Haþe Creon sleine and wonne Thebes þus
                                
                                  Stil in þat felde he toke al nyhte his rest
                                
                                  And dide wiþ al þe Countre riht as him lest
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                                  To ransake in þe caas of þe bodies dede [II. 85.] 
                                
                                  Hem for to strepe of herneis and of wede
                                
                                  The piloures deden þe besines and Cure
                                
                                  After þe bataile and þe discomfetoure
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                                  And so be-fel þat in þe caas þei founde [folio 14a]  [II. 85.] 
                                
                                  Thorghe girt mony a greuous blody wounde
                                
                                  Two ȝonge knyhtes liggeynge .by and by.
                                
                                  Boþen in armes samen wrouht ful richely
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                                  Of whiche two Arcita hiht þe tone
                                
                                  And þat oþer knyhte hihte Palamone
                                
                                  Not fully whikke ne fulli dede þei were
                                
                                  Bot be her cote armures and by hire gere [II. 86.] 
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                                  The heraudes knew hem selfe in special
                                
                                  As þei þat weren of þe blode roial
                                
                                  Of Thebes and of sustren two yborne
                                
                                  Owte of þe caas peloures haþe hem torne
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                                  And haue hem caried softe vnto þe tente [II. 87.] 
                                
                                  Of Theus and he ful sone hem sente [II. 89.] 
                                
                                  Tho Athenes to dwellen in prisone
                                
                                  Perpetuely hem nold nouht raunson
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                                  ¶ And whan þis worþi Duc had þus ydone [II. 90-95.] 
                                
                                  He toke his hoste and home he rideþ anone
                                
                                  Wiþ Laurer Coroned as a conqueroure
                                
                                  And þere he leueþ in joy and in honoure
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                                  Terme of his lif what nedeþ wordes moo
                                
                                  And in a toure in Angwysse and in woo [III. 3.] 
                                
                                  Dwellen þis Palomon and eke Arcite
                                
                                  ffor euer more þer maie no golde hem qwyte
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                                  This passeþ ȝere be ȝere and daie be daie

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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 30
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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