The þridde bar with him his bowe turkeys
Of brend gold was þe caas and eek þe herneys
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And riden forth a paas with sorwful chere
Toward þe groue as ȝe schul after heere
The noblest of þe grekes þat þer were
vpon here schuldres carieden þe beere
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with slak paas and eyhen reed and wete
Thurgh-out þe cite by þe maister streete
That sprad was al with blak and wonder hye
Right of þe same is al þe stret I-wrye
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vpon þe right hond went olde Egeus
And on þat oþer syde duk Theseus
with vessels in here hand with gold wel fyn
As ful of hony mylk and blood and wyn
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Eke Palomon with a gret companye
And after þat com woful Emelye
with fyr in hond as was þat tyme þe gyse /
To do þoffice of funeral seruise
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Heyȝ labour and ful gret apparailyng
was at þe seruice and at þe fyr makyng
That with his grene top þe heuen raughte
And twenty fadme of brede tharme straughte /
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This is to seyn þe boowes were so brode
Of stree first was þer leyd ful many a loode
but how þe fyr was makyd vpon highte
Ne eek þe names how þe trees highte
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As Ook · fyr · birch · asp · aldir · holm · popler ·
wilw. elm plane. assch. box. chesteyn lynde laurer.
Mapul. thorn · beech · hasil · ew · wyppyltre
how þey weren felde schal nouȝt be told for me
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Ne how þe goddes ronnen vp and doun
Disheryt of here habitacioun
In which þey whilom woned in rest/ and pees
Nymphes. Faunes and Amadryes
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Ne how þe beestes and þe briddes alle
Fledden for feere / whan þe woode was falle /
