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

                                
                                  Howe Athalance hunted þe wilde bore
                                
                                  And Meliagre and mony an oþer moo
                                
                                  ffor whiche Diane wrouht care and woo
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                                  There sawhe .I. many a noþer wondere storie
                                
                                  The whiche me luste nouht drawe to memorie
                                
                                  ¶ This Goddes on an hert ful hihe sche seete
                                
                                  Wiþ smalle houndes al aboute her feete.
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                                  And vnder-neþe hire feete sche had a mone
                                
                                  Waxinge it was and scholde wany sone
                                
                                  In gaude grene hire statue cloþed was
                                
                                  Wiþ bowe in honde and arwes in a kas
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                                  Hir yhen kest sche ful lowe adoune
                                
                                  Thare pluto haþ his derke Regione
                                
                                  A womman trauaillinge was hire beforne
                                
                                  Bot for hire childe was so longe vnborne
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                                  fful pitously Lucina gan sche calle
                                
                                  And seide helpe for þou maiste best of alle
                                
                                  Wele couþe he peinte lifly þat it wrouht
                                
                                  Wiþ many a floren he þe hewes bouht
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                                  Nowe bene þes listes maade and Theseus
                                
                                  That att his grete cost arraide þus
                                
                                  The temples and þe Teatre euery dele
                                
                                  Whan it was done it liked him wondere wele
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                                  Bot stinte .I. will of Theseus a lite
                                
                                  And speke of Palamon and of Arcite
                                
                                  The daie approcheþ of hire retournynge
                                
                                  That eueryche schold an .C. knyhtes bringe.
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                                  The Bataile to darraine as .I. ȝowe tolde
                                
                                  And til Athenes here couenant for to holde
                                
                                  Haþe eueryche of hem brouht an .C. knyhtes
                                
                                  Wele armed for þe werre att al rihtes
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                                  An sekurly þere trowed mony a man
                                
                                  That neuer siþþe þat þe werlde be-gan [VI. 71.] 
                                
                                  As for to speke of knyhthode of hire honde
                                
                                  As fer as god haþ maked see and londe
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                                  Was of so fewe so noble a compaignye [VI. 71.]

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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 60
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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