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

                                
                                  Þat he na es clad and redi for to ride
                                
                                  Wiþ hunte and horne and hundes him biside [V. 77.] 
                                
                                  ffor in his huntynge haþe he swyche delite [V. 78.] 
                                
                                  That it is al is hope. Ioy and appetite
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                                  To bene him self þe grete hertes bane
                                
                                  ffor after mars. he serueþ now Diane
                                
                                  Clere was þe daie as .I. haue told ar þis
                                
                                  And Theseus wiþ al Ioy and blisse
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                                  Wiþ his ypolita þe faire quene
                                
                                  And Emely cloþed al in Grene [[See XII. 65.]] 
                                
                                  On huntyn bene þe reden Roially [folio 22a] 
                                
                                  And to þe Groue þat stod ful fast by
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                                  In whiche þer was an herte as men him tolde
                                
                                  ¶ Duc Theseus þe streiht waie haþ holde
                                
                                  And to þe launde he rideþ him ful riht
                                
                                  ffor þeder was þe hert wonte to haue his fliht
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                                  And ouer a broke and so forþe on his weie
                                
                                  This Duc wil haue a cours att him or tweie
                                
                                  Wiþ houndes suche as him lust commaunde
                                
                                  And whan þis Duc wa[s] come vn to þe launde
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                                  Vnder þe sonne he loked And a-none
                                
                                  He was war of Arcite and Palamone.
                                
                                  þat fowhten breme as it wer boly two
                                
                                  The briht swerdes wenten to and foo. [[? MS. fro]] 
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                                  So hydously þat wiþ þe lest stroke
                                
                                  It semeþ þat it wald fel an oke
                                
                                  Bot whate þei were noþinge he wote
                                
                                  This Duc his Coursur wiþ his spores smote [V. 82.] 
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                                  And att a sterte he was be-twix hem two
                                
                                  And pulled owte a swerde And cride ho
                                
                                  No more vpon peine of leseynge of ȝoure hede
                                
                                  Be myhti Mars he schal a-none be dede
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                                  That smyteþ any stroke. þat .I. maie seen
                                
                                  Bot telle me what mester men ȝe been [V. 83.] 
                                
                                  That bene so hardy to feihten here
                                
                                  Wiþ-owten Iugge or oþer officere

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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 49
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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