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 ...

                                
                                  Lete euery felawe / tellen his tale a-boute
                                
                                  And lat se now / who shal the soper wynne
                                
                                  And there as I left / I wyl a-ȝein begynne
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                                  This Duke / of which I made mencion
                                
                                  whan he was come / almost to the toun
                                
                                  In al his wele / and in his most pride
                                
                                  He was ware / and cast his eye a-side
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                                  where that there kneled / in the heye weye
                                
                                  A companye of ladies / tweye and tweye
                                
                                  Eche after other / clothed in clothes blake
                                
                                  But swich a cry / and swich a woo they make
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                                  That in þis world / is no creature leuyng
                                
                                  That euere herd swich a-noþer / weymentyng
                                
                                  And of this cry / they wold neuere stynt /
                                
                                  Til they the Reyne / of his bridel hent /
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                                  what folk be ȝe / that at myn hom comyng
                                
                                  Perturbeth so my folk / with criyng
                                
                                  Quod Theseus / haue ȝe so gret enuye
                                
                                  Of myn honour / þat ȝe þus compleyne and crye
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                                  Or who hath ȝow mysboden / or offended
                                
                                  Do / telle me / if þat it may be amended
                                
                                  And why ȝe be thus clothed al in blak
                                
                                  The eldest lady of hem alle / þanne spak
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                                  whan she had swowned / with a dedly chere
                                
                                  That it was reuthe / for to sene and here
                                
                                  And seide lord / to whom fortune / hath I-ȝeuen
                                
                                  Victorie / and as a conquerour to leuen
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                                  Nouȝt greueth vs ȝoure glorie / ne Honour
                                
                                  But we be-seke ȝow / of mercy and socour
                                
                                  Haue mercy on oure woo / and oure distresse [[Dd. ends; leaves 14-16 gone]] 
                                
                                  Some drope of pyte þurgh þy gentillesse [Eg. 2726 begins, leaf 12] 
                                
                                  Vp-on vs wrecched wommen lete þou falle [Eg. 2726 folio 12b] 
                                
                                  ffor certes lord þere is none of vs all
                                
                                  That we haue be a duchesse or a quene
                                
                                  Now be we caytyfs as it is wele sene
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                                  Thanked be fortune and hir fals whele

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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 27
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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