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

                                
                                  A-boue hire hede here doufes flikeringe
                                
                                  Be-forne hir stode hir sonne Cupido
                                
                                  Vpon his scholderes wenges had he tuo
                                  Line 1964 
                                
                                  And blinde he was as it is oft sene
                                
                                  A bowe he bare and arwes briht and kene
                                
                                  ¶ Whi schold .I. nouht also wele eke tel þe hall
                                
                                  The purtratoure þat was vpon þe wall
                                  Line 1968 
                                
                                  Wiþ-inne þe temple of myhti mars þe rede
                                
                                  Al peinted was þe wal in lengethe and brede [VII. 36.] 
                                
                                  Like to þe estres of þe grisely place [VII. 29, 30.] 
                                
                                  That hihte þe grete temple of mars in trace
                                  Line 1972 
                                
                                  In þilke colde frosti Region
                                
                                  Ther as Marce haþe his souereine Mansion
                                
                                  ffirste on þe wal was peinted a forest [VII. 31.] 
                                
                                  In whiche þere dwelled neyþer man ne beste [[but a real forest there, not a painted one.]] 
                                  Line 1976 
                                
                                  With knotty knarry baran tres olde
                                
                                  Of stubbes scharpe and hidouse to be-holde
                                
                                  In whiche þer ran a rombel in a swouhe.
                                
                                  As þouhe a storme scholde berste euery bouhe.
                                  Line 1980 
                                
                                  And dounewarde from an hill vnder a bent [folio 25b] 
                                
                                  Ther stode þe temple of Mars armipotent [VII. 32.] 
                                
                                  Wrowht al of Burnede stele of wyche þentre
                                
                                  Was longe and streite and gastly for to see
                                  Line 1984 
                                
                                  And þere owte come a rage and suche a veze [VII. 33.] 
                                
                                  That maade al þe gates for to rese
                                
                                  The Northern liht in att þat dore schone [Boccaccio makes the temple lighted by altar-fires, kindled from the flames of plundered cities. VII. 35.] 
                                
                                  ffor windowe on þe [walle] was þere none.
                                  Line 1988 
                                
                                  Thoruhe whiche men myht any liht discerne
                                
                                  The dores waren all of Attemant ete[r]ne [VII. 32.] 
                                
                                  Ychenchede ouereþwart and enlonge
                                
                                  Wiþ yren toughe and for to make it stronge
                                  Line 1992 
                                
                                  Euery peler þe temple to susteine [VII. 33.] 
                                
                                  Was tune grete of yren briht and schene
                                
                                  There sawe .I. first þe derke ymaginynge
                                
                                  Of felony an al þe compassinge
                                  Line 1996 
                                
                                  The Cruele Ire as rede as any glede

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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 57
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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