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

                                  
                                    WHilom as olde stories tellen vs [on leaf12] 
                                  
                                    Ther was a Duk þat highte Theseus
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                                    Of Athenes he was. lord and gouernour
                                  
                                    And in his tyme swich a conquerour
                                  
                                    That gretter was ther non vnder þe sonne
                                  
                                    Ful many a Riche Contre hadde he wonne
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                                    That with his wisdam and his chiualrie
                                  
                                    He conquered al the regne of Femynye
                                  
                                    That whilom was I-cleped Cithea
                                  
                                    And weddede the queen Ipolita
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                                    And brought hire hoom with him in his Contre
                                  
                                    with moche glorie and gret solempnite
                                  
                                    And eek hire ȝonge suster Emelye
                                  
                                    And þus with victorie and with melodye
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                                    Lete I þis noble duk to Athenes ryde /
                                  
                                    And al his Ost in armes him biside [folio 12b] 
                                  
                                    At certes if it nere to long to heere
                                  
                                    I wolde han told ȝow fully þe manere
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                                    How wonnen was the regne of Femenye
                                  
                                    By Theseus and by his Chiualrye
                                  
                                    And of þe grete bataille for þe nones
                                  
                                    By-twix athenes. and amazones
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                                    And how asegid was ypolita
                                  
                                    The faire hardy Quyen of Cithea
                                  
                                    And of þe feste that was at hire weddynge
                                  
                                    And of þe tempest at hire hoom comynge
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                                    But al þat þing I most as now forbere
                                  
                                    I haue god wot a large feeld to Ere
                                  
                                    And wayke ben þe Oxen in my plough
                                  
                                    The remenaunt of the tale is long I-nough
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                                    I wol not lette eek. non of al þis rowte

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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 26
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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