The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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                                    IN olde dayes of þe kyng arthour [folio 97b]  [¶ Narrat] 
                                  
                                    Of which þat britouns speken gret honour
                                  
                                    Al was þis lond fulfilled of fayrie
                                  
                                    The elf queen wiþ hir ioly compaignye
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                                    Daunced fuloft in many a grene mede
                                  
                                    This was þe old oppynyoun as I rede
                                  
                                    I speke of many hundrid ȝer ago
                                  
                                    But now can no man see noon elues mo
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                                    For now þe grete charite and prayeres
                                  
                                    Of lymytours and oþer holy freres
                                  
                                    That sechen euery lond and euery streem
                                  
                                    As thik as motis in þe sonne beem
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                                    Blessynge halles . chambres . kichenes . boures
                                  
                                    Citees . burghes . castels . hihe and toures .
                                  
                                    Thropes . bernes . schepnes . and dayeries
                                  
                                    That makith þat þer ben no fayeries
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                                    For þer as wont was to walken an elf
                                  
                                    Ther walkith noon . but þe lymytour himself
                                  
                                    In vndermeles and in morwenynges
                                  
                                    And saith his matyns and his holy þinges
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                                    As he goþ in his lymytacioun
                                  
                                    wommen may go saufly vp and doun
                                  
                                    In euery bussch or vnder euery tre
                                  
                                    Þer is non oþer incumbent but/ he /
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                                    And ne wol but doon hem dishonour
                                  
                                    And so bifel it / þat þis king arthour
                                  
                                    had in his hous a lusty bacheler
                                  
                                    That on a day com rydyng fro ryuer

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 219
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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