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 ...

                                
                                  That Theseus this noble conquerour
                                
                                  doth to thise ladies when they fro him went
                                
                                  But shortly to telle is myn entent
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                                  Whan þat þis worthy duk this Theseus [Eg. 2726 folio 13b] 
                                
                                  hath Creon sleine and wonne Thebes thus
                                
                                  Stille in þat felde he toke all night his rest
                                
                                  And did with all þe contre as hym lest
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                                  To ransake in the taas of þe bodyes dede
                                
                                  Hym for to strype of harneys and of wede
                                
                                  The pilours didden her besynesse and cure
                                
                                  After the bataill and the discomfiture
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                                  And so befill þat in the taas they founde
                                
                                  Thurgh gurt with many a greuous wounde
                                
                                  Two yong knightes liggyng by and by
                                
                                  Both in one armes wroght full richely
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                                  Of which two Arcita was þat one
                                
                                  And þat other knight hight Palamone
                                
                                  Noght fully quyk ne fully dede they were
                                
                                  But by her cotearmes and by her gere
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                                  The heraudes knew hem best of all
                                
                                  As they that weren of þe blode riall
                                
                                  Of Thebes and of two susters born
                                
                                  Out of the taas the pilours haue hem born
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                                  And han hem caried soft vn-to the tent
                                
                                  Of theseus and full sone he hem hent
                                
                                  And sent to Athenes to dwell in prison
                                
                                  perpetuelly with-outen raunson
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                                  And whan this worthy duk hath þus done
                                
                                  He toke his ost and home he ryt anone
                                
                                  with lauriell crowned as a conquerour
                                
                                  And there he leved in ioy and honour
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                                  Terme of his lyf what nedeth wordes mo
                                
                                  And in a tourne of angwyssh and of wo
                                
                                  Dwellen thise palamon and his felawe arcite
                                
                                  ffor euermore there may no gold hem quite
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                                  This passeth yere by yere and day by day

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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 30
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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