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

                                
                                  Ȝite was þeire deþe depainted þere be-forne
                                
                                  Be Manassinge of Mars riht be figure
                                
                                  So was it schewde in þat purtrature.
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                                  As is depeinted in þe sertres a-boue
                                
                                  Who schal be sleine or elles dede for loue
                                
                                  Suffiseth oone ensample in stories oolde
                                
                                  .I. maie nouht reken hem al þouhe þat .I. wolde
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                                  ¶ The statue of Mars vppon a Carte stode
                                
                                  Armed and loked grime as he war wode
                                
                                  And ouere his heuede þere schines two figures
                                
                                  Of sterre þat bene closed in scriptures
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                                  Þat on puella þat oþer Rubeus
                                
                                  This god of armes was arraide þus
                                
                                  A wolfe þere stode be-for him att his fete
                                
                                  Wiþ yȝen reede and of a man he ete
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                                  Wiþþe sotel pensel was depeinted þis storie
                                
                                  In redouteinge of Mars and of his glorie.
                                
                                  ¶ Nowe to þe temple of Diane þe chast
                                
                                  As schortli as .I. can .I. wil me haste
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                                  To telle ȝowe al þe descripcioune
                                
                                  Depeinted bene þe walles vp and doune
                                
                                  Of huntynge and of schamfast chastite
                                
                                  There sauhe .I. howe woful Caliste
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                                  Whan þat Diane was agreued wiþe here
                                
                                  Was turne fro a womman to a bere [Vrsa Maior] 
                                
                                  And after was sche maade þe lode-sterre
                                
                                  Thus was sche peinted .I. can sei ȝowe no ferre.
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                                  Hir sone is eke a sterre as men Maie see
                                
                                  Thar sawhe [I] Dane turned til a tree
                                
                                  .I. mene nouht þe goddes Diane
                                
                                  Bot Penneus douhter whiche þat hiht Dane.
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                                  ¶ Ther sawhe .I. Accheon an herte ymaked [folio 26b] 
                                
                                  ffor veniaunce þat he sawhe Diane al nakede
                                
                                  .I. sawhe howe þat his hondes haþ him cauht
                                
                                  And freten him for þat þei knewe him nauht
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                                  Ȝite y-peinted was a litel forþermore

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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 59
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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