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

                                
                                  lokyng vpward vpon his Emelye
                                
                                  And sche agayn him cast a frendly yȝe
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                                  For wommen as for to speke in comune
                                
                                  Þay folwe alle þe fauour of fortune
                                
                                  And was alle his cheer and in his hert
                                
                                  Out of þe ground a fyr infernal stert
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                                  From Pluto send at þe request of Saturne
                                
                                  For which his hors for feere gan to turne
                                
                                  And leep a syde and foundred as he leep
                                
                                  And or þat arcyte may take keep
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                                  he pight him on þe pomel of þe heed
                                
                                  That in þat place he lay as he were deed
                                
                                  his brest tobroken with his sadil bowe
                                
                                  As blak he lay as eny col or crowe
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                                  So was þe blood y-ronne in his face
                                
                                  Anon he was y-born out of þe place
                                
                                  with herte sore to Theseus paleys
                                
                                  Tho was he coruen out of his harneys
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                                  And in a bed y-brought ful fair and blyue
                                
                                  For ȝit he was in memory and on lyue
                                
                                  And alway cryeng after Emelye
                                
                                  Duk Theseus and al his companye
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                                  Is comen hom to Athenes his Cite
                                
                                  with alle blys and gret solempnite
                                
                                  Al be it þat þis auenture was falle [folio 36b] 
                                
                                  he nolde nought discomfort hem alle /
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                                  Men seyde eek þat arcita schuld nought dye
                                
                                  he schal be helyd of his maladye
                                
                                  And of anoþer þing þey were as fayn
                                
                                  That of hem alle þer was noon y-slayn
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                                  Al were þey sore hurt and namely oon
                                
                                  That wiþ a spere was þirled his brest boon
                                
                                  To oþer woundes and to broken armes
                                
                                  Some hadde salue and some hadde charmes
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                                  Fermacyes of herbes and eek saue
                                
                                  They dronken for þey wolde here lyues haue

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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 77
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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