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

                                
                                  vp sprengen speres on twenty foot on hight
                                
                                  Out goon þe swerdes as þe siluer bright
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                                  The helmes þer to-hewen and to-schrede
                                
                                  Out brast þe blood wiþ stoute stremes reede
                                
                                  with mighty maces þe bones þay to-breste
                                
                                  he þurgh þe þikkest of þe þrong gan þreste
                                  Line 2612 
                                
                                  Ther stomblen steedes strong and doun can falle /
                                
                                  he rolled vnder foot as doþ a balle
                                
                                  he feyneþ on his foot wiþ his tronchoun
                                
                                  And him hurteleþ with his hors a doun
                                  Line 2616 
                                
                                  He þurgh þe body hurt is and siþþen take
                                
                                  Maugre his heed and brouȝt vnto þe stake /
                                
                                  As forward was right þer he most abyde /
                                
                                  Anoþer lad is on þat oþer syde
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                                  And som tyme doþ Theseus hem to rest
                                
                                  hem to refreissche and drinke if hem lest
                                
                                  Ful ofte a-day haue þis Thebans twoo
                                
                                  Togider y-met and wrought his felaw woo
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                                  vnhorsed haþ ech oþer of hem tweye
                                
                                  Ther nas no Tygyr in þe vale of Galgopleye
                                
                                  whan þat hir whelp is stole whan it is lite [folio 35b] 
                                
                                  So cruel on þe hunt/ as is arcite
                                  Line 2628 
                                
                                  For Ielous hert vpon þis Palomon
                                
                                  Ne in Belmary þer is no fel lyoun
                                
                                  That hunted is or for hunger wood
                                
                                  Ne of his prey desireþ so þe blood
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                                  As Palomon to sle his foo arcite
                                
                                  This Ielous strokes on here helmes byte
                                
                                  Out renneþ blood on boþe here sides reede
                                
                                  Som tyme an ende þer is on euery dede
                                  Line 2636 
                                
                                  For er þe sonne vnto þe reste went
                                
                                  The strang kyng Emetreus gan hent
                                
                                  This Palomon as he faught wiþ arcite
                                
                                  And his swerd in his fleissch he did byte
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                                  And by þe force of .xx.ti he is take
                                
                                  Vnȝolden and I-drawe vnto þe stake

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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 75
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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