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

And hereþ him come rossheinge in þe greues And brekeþe boþe bowes and þe leues [VII. 119.] And þinkeþ here comeþ my mortale enmye Wiþþe-owte faile he most be dede or .I. Line 1644 ffor eiþer .i. mote slene him att þe gappe [folio 21b] Or [he] most sle me. if þat me mys happe So ferden [þey] in chaungeinge of hire hewe As fer as iche of hem oþer knewe Line 1648 Thar nas no good daye ne no salueynge Bot streite wiþouten worde or reherseinge Eueryche of hem helpe to arme oþere As frendely as he were his owen broþere Line 1652 And after þat wiþ scharpe speres stronge Thei foynen eche att oþere wonder longe Thou mihtest wene þat this palamon In his feihtinge were a wode lyon · Line 1656 And as a cruel tigre was Arcite As wilde bores gunne þei to smyte Þat froþen white as fome. for ire wode Vp to þe Ancle fouht þei in þeire blode Line 1660 And in þis wise .I. lete hem feihtinge dwelle And forþ .I. wil of Theseus ȝowe telle The destanye Ministre general [VI. 1.] That executeþ in þe werld oueral Line 1664 The Purueance þat. god haþ seie be-fore [

Comp. Troilus and Cressida, IV. st. 136:

— For some men sain, that God seeth all beforne,. . . . .Than mote it fallen, though men had it sworne,That purveiaunce hath seene beforne to be—

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So stronge it is þat þeihe þe werlde had it swore The contrarie of a þinge be ȝe or naye Ȝit some time it schal fal on a daye. [V. 77.] Line 1668 Þat falleþ nouht eft wiþ-inne a þousande ȝere ffor certeinly oure appetites here Be it of werre of pese. or hate or loue All is þis rewled be þe siht aboue Line 1672 This Mene .I. nowe be myhty Theseus [V. 77.] That for to hunt is so desirus And namely att þe grete hert in maie That in his bed þere daweþ him no daie Line 1676
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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1867-1879.

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