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

                                
                                  Ne how þe ground agast was of þe light [folio 39b] 
                                
                                  That was nought wont to see no sonne bright
                                  Line 2932 
                                
                                  Ne how þe fyr was couchid first wiþ stree
                                
                                  And þanne with drye stykkes clouen in three
                                
                                  And þanne wiþ grene woode and spicerie
                                
                                  And þanne wiþ cloth of gold and wiþ perrye
                                  Line 2936 
                                
                                  And gerlandes hangyng with ful many a flour
                                
                                  The myrre thensens wiþ also gret odour
                                
                                  Ne how arcyte lay among al þis
                                
                                  Ne what richesse / aboute his body is
                                  Line 2940 
                                
                                  Ne how þat Emely as was þe gyse
                                
                                  Putt in þe fyr of funeral seruise
                                
                                  Ne how she swowned whan sche made þe fyre
                                
                                  Ne what sche spak ne what was hire desire
                                  Line 2944 
                                
                                  Ne what iewels men in þe fyr þo cast
                                
                                  whan þat þe fyr was gret and brente fast
                                
                                  And how sum caste hir scheeld and summe her spere
                                
                                  And of here vestimentȝ which þat þey were
                                  Line 2948 
                                
                                  And cuppes ful of wyn and mylk and blood
                                
                                  Vnto þe fyr þat brent as it were wood
                                
                                  Ne how þe gregoys wiþ an huge route
                                
                                  Thre tymes ryden al þe fyr aboute
                                  Line 2952 
                                
                                  vpon þe lefte hond with an heih schoutyng
                                
                                  And þries wiþ here speres clateryng
                                
                                  And þries how þe ladyes gan to crye
                                
                                  Ne how þat lad was homeward Emelye
                                  Line 2956 
                                
                                  Ne how arcyte is brent to aschen colde /
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  Al thilke night ne how þe grekes pleye /
                                
                                  The wake pleyes kepe I nat to seye
                                  Line 2960 
                                
                                  who wrastleþ best naked wiþ oyle enoynt
                                
                                  Ne who þat bar him best in no disoynt
                                
                                  I wol not telle eek how þat þey ben goon
                                
                                  Hom til athenes whan þe pley is doon
                                  Line 2964 
                                
                                  But schortly to þe poynt now wol I wende
                                
                                  And maken of my longe tale an ende

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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 84
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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