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 ...

                                
                                  Ne how the grounde agast was of the light
                                
                                  That was nat wonte to seen the sonne bright
                                  Line 2932 
                                
                                  Ne how the fire was chaunged first with stre
                                
                                  And then dry stykkes cloven in iij·
                                
                                  And than with grene wode and spicery
                                
                                  And than with cloth of golde and with perry
                                  Line 2936 
                                
                                  And garlandes hangyng full of many a flour
                                
                                  The mirre Theceus with all the grete sauour
                                
                                  Ne how Arcite lay amonge all this
                                
                                  Ne what ricches aboute his body ys
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                                  Ne how that Emelye as was the gyse
                                
                                  put in the fire of funerall seruice
                                
                                  Ne how the swowned whan men made the fire
                                
                                  ne what she spake ne what was hir desire
                                  Line 2944 
                                
                                  ne what Iewels men in the fire cast
                                
                                  Whan that the fire was grete and brent faste
                                
                                  Ne how som her sheldes and som her spere
                                
                                  And of her vestimentes which that they were
                                  Line 2948 
                                
                                  And cuppes full of mylke and wyne and blode
                                
                                  In-to the fire than brent as yt were wode
                                
                                  And how the grekes with an houge route
                                
                                  Thries ryden the fire aboute
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                                  Vp-on the left hande with a loude showtyng
                                
                                  And thries with her speres clateryng
                                
                                  And thries how the ladies gonnen crye
                                
                                  And how that lad was homward Emelye
                                  Line 2956 
                                
                                  Ne how Arcite ys brent to asshen colde
                                
                                  Ne how þat light wake was yholde
                                
                                  All that night ne how the grekes pleye
                                
                                  The wake pleys ne kepe I nat to seye
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                                  Who wrastelleth best naked with oyle enoynt
                                
                                  Ne who that bare hym best in no disioynt [Eg. 2726 folio 38a] 
                                
                                  I woll nat tellen all how they gon
                                
                                  Hom to Athenes whan the pleye ys don
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                                  But shortly to the poynte than woll I wende
                                
                                  And maken of my longe tale an ende

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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 84
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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