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

                                
                                  An Egle tame as any lely white
                                
                                  An .C. lordes had he wiþ him þere
                                
                                  Al armed saue hire hedes in al her gere
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                                  fful richely in al maner þinges
                                
                                  ffor trusteþ wele þat Dukes Erles and kinges [VI. 65.] 
                                
                                  Weren gaderd in þis noble compaignie
                                
                                  ffor loue and for encres of chiualrie
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                                  A-boute þis kinge þar ranne on euery parte
                                
                                  fful mony a tame lion and lepart
                                
                                  ¶ And in þis wise þes lordes al and some
                                
                                  Bene on þe sondaie to þe Cite come
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                                  Aboute prime and in þe towne a-lihte
                                
                                  This theseus þis duc þis worþi knyht [VI. 65.] 
                                
                                  Whan he had brouht hem in to his Citee [folio 28a] 
                                
                                  And Inned hem eueriche att his degree
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                                  He festeþ hem and doþe so grete la-boure
                                
                                  To esen hem and done hem al honoure
                                
                                  That ȝit men weneþ þat nomannes witte
                                
                                  Of none astate ne couþe amende it
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                                  The minstralcie þe seruice att þe feste [VI. 69-70.] 
                                
                                  The grete ȝeftes to þe most and leste
                                
                                  The Riche arraie of Theseus Paleis
                                
                                  Ne who satt first ne last vppon þe deis
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                                  What ladies fairest bene or best daunceinge
                                
                                  Or whiche of hem can best daunsen or singe [VI. 70.] 
                                
                                  Ne who moste feleingelike spekeþ of loue
                                
                                  What haukes sitten in þe perche aboue [VI. 8.] 
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                                  What houndes liggen on þe flore adoune
                                
                                  Of all þis make .I. nowe no mencioune
                                
                                  Bot al þeffect þat þenkeþ me beste
                                
                                  Now comeþ þe pointe and herken if ȝow leste
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                                  ¶ The sondaye att nyht ar day be-gan to springe
                                
                                  Whan Palamon þe larke herde singe
                                
                                  Al þouhe it nar nouht daie be houres tuo
                                
                                  Ȝete songe þe larke An Palamon riht þo
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                                  Wiþ holy herte and wiþ an hihe corage

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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 63
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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