The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  hadden for loue / the bataylle hem bytwene
                                
                                  That in the selue Groue / swete & grene
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                                  There as he had / his amorous desires
                                
                                  Hys compleynt / and for loue his hote fires
                                
                                  he wold make a fir / in which the office
                                
                                  ffunerall / he myght al accomplice
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                                  And lete a-non comaunde / to hakke and hewe
                                
                                  The Okes olde / and leyn hem on a rewe
                                
                                  In culpons / wel arayed for to brenne
                                
                                  ¶ . His officers / with swift fet they renne
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                                  And ride a-non / at his comaundement
                                
                                  And after this / Theseus hath I-sent
                                
                                  After a Bere / and it al ouer-spredde
                                
                                  with clothes of gold / the richest þat he hadde
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                                  And of þe same seute / he clad Arcite
                                
                                  vp-on his handes / his glowys whyte
                                
                                  Eke on his hede / a corone of laurere grene
                                
                                  And in his hand / a swerd ful bright and kene
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                                  He leid him bare / the visage / on the bere
                                
                                  Ther-with he wepte / that pite was to here
                                
                                  And for the peeple / shuld sen him alle
                                
                                  Whan it was day / he brouȝt him to þe halle
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                                  That roreth of the criyng and the soun
                                
                                  Tho cam this wooful Theaban / Palamon [folio 36b] 
                                
                                  With flotry berd / and ruggy asshy heres
                                
                                  In clothes blake / I-dropped al with teres
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                                  And passyng othere / of wepyng / Emelye
                                
                                  The reufullest / of al the cumpanye
                                
                                  And in as meche / as the seruyse shuld be
                                
                                  The more noble / and riche in his degree
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                                  Duke Theseus / let forth the steedes bryng
                                
                                  That trapped weren / in stele al gleteryng
                                
                                  And couered with the Armes / of daun Arcite
                                
                                  vp-on the steedes / grete and whyte
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                                  There seten folk / of which on bar his shelde
                                
                                  Another his spere / vp-on his hondes helde

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 82
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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