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

                                
                                  hadden for loue þe batail hem bytwene
                                
                                  That in the selue groue soote and greene
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                                  Ther as he hadde his amorous desires
                                
                                  His compleynt and for loue his hoote fyres
                                
                                  he wolde make a fyr in which thoffice
                                
                                  Funeral he might al accomplice
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                                  And leet comaunde anon to hakke and hewe /
                                
                                  The Okes olde and lay hem on a rewe
                                
                                  In culpouns wel arrayed for to brenne
                                
                                  his officers wiþ swifte foot þey renne
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                                  And ryde anon at his comaundement
                                
                                  And after þis Theseus hath I-sent
                                
                                  After a beer and it al ouer spradde
                                
                                  wiþ cloþ of golde þe richest þat he hadde
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                                  And of þe same sute he clad arcyte
                                
                                  vpon his hondes were his gloues white
                                
                                  Eke on his heed a croune of laurer grene /
                                
                                  And in his hond a swerd ful bright and kene
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                                  He leyde him bare þe visage on þe beere
                                
                                  Ther wiþ he weep þat pite was to heere
                                
                                  And for þe poeple schulde see him alle /
                                
                                  whan it was day he brought hem to þe halle
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                                  That roreth of þe cry and of þe soun
                                
                                  Tho cam þis woful Theban Palomoun
                                
                                  wiþ flotery berd and ruggy asshy heeres
                                
                                  In cloþis blak y-dropped al wiþ teeres
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                                  And passyng oþer of wepyng Emelye
                                
                                  The rewfullest of al þe companye
                                
                                  In as moche as þe seruice schulde be
                                
                                  The more nobul and riche in his degre
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                                  Duk Theseus leet forth þre steedes bryng
                                
                                  That trapped were in steel al gliteryng
                                
                                  And couered wiþ armes of dan arcyte
                                
                                  Vpon þe steedes that weren grete & white
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                                  Ther seeten folk / of which oon bar his scheeld [folio 39a] 
                                
                                  Anoþer his spere vp in his hondes heeld

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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 82
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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