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 ...

                                
                                  Till it befell ones in a morow of May
                                
                                  That Emely that feirer was to sene
                                
                                  Then is the lilly vp-on þe stalk so grene
                                  Line 1036 
                                
                                  And fressher þan þe May with floures new
                                
                                  ffor with þe rose stroue hir hewe
                                
                                  I note which was þe feirer of hem two
                                
                                  Er it were day as was hir wont to do
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                                  She was aresen and all redy dight [Eg. 2726 folio 14a] 
                                
                                  ffor May woll haue no slogardrye a night
                                
                                  That seson prykketh euery gentell hert
                                
                                  And maketh hym out of his slepe to stert
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                                  And seith arise and do thine obseruance
                                
                                  This meyde Emelye to haue remembrance
                                
                                  To don honour to May and for to ryse
                                
                                  Clothed was she fressh for to deuyse
                                  Line 1048 
                                
                                  Her yelow heres browded were in o tresse
                                
                                  Behinde hir bak a yerde longe as I gesse
                                
                                  And to the gardyn at the sonne vprest
                                
                                  She walketh vp and doun and as hir lest
                                  Line 1052 
                                
                                  She gadred floures party white and rede
                                
                                  To make a sotell garlond for hir hede
                                
                                  And as an Angell hevenlich she songe
                                
                                  The toure þat was so thik and so stronge
                                  Line 1056 
                                
                                  Which of þe castell was þe chief dongeon
                                
                                  There as thise knightes were in prison
                                
                                  Of which I told you and telle shall
                                
                                  Was even ioynyng to þe gardyn wall
                                  Line 1060 
                                
                                  There as this Emely hade hir pleying
                                
                                  Bright was the son and clere þe mornyng
                                
                                  And palamon þis wofull prisoner
                                
                                  As was his wone by leve of his gayler
                                  Line 1064 
                                
                                  Was risen and romed in the chambre on high
                                
                                  In the which he all the noble Citee sigh
                                
                                  And eke þe gardyn full of braunches grene
                                
                                  There as this fressh Emelye the shene
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                                  And was hir walke and romed vp and doun

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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 31
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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