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 ...

                                
                                  And Arcite þat is / in the court rial
                                
                                  with Theseus / the squyer principal
                                
                                  ys rysen and loketh / on the mery day
                                
                                  And for to don / his obseruaunce to May
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                                  Remembryng on þe poynt / of his desyre [[Dd. ends; leaves 21|25 gone]] 
                                
                                  He on a courser stertlyng as the fire [Eg. 2726 begins, leaf 19, back] 
                                
                                  Is ryden in-to the feldes hym to pley
                                
                                  Out of þe court were it a myle or twey
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                                  And to the groue of which that I you told
                                
                                  By auenture his wey he gan hold
                                
                                  To maken him a gerlond of þe greues
                                
                                  Were it of wodebynd or hathorn leues
                                  Line 1508 
                                
                                  And lowde he song ayein the son shene
                                
                                  May with all thy floures and þy grene
                                
                                  Welcome be þow feire fressh May
                                
                                  In hope that I som grene gete may
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                                  And from his courser with a lusty hert
                                
                                  In-to the grove full hastely he stert
                                
                                  And in a path he rometh vp and doun
                                
                                  There as by auenture this palamon
                                  Line 1516 
                                
                                  Was in a bussh þat no man might him se
                                
                                  ffor sore aferde of his deth than was he
                                
                                  No thing knewe he þat it was Arcite
                                
                                  God wote he wold haue trowed it full lyte [Eg. 2726 folio 20a] 
                                  Line 1520 
                                
                                  But soth is seide gone seth ys many yeres
                                
                                  That felde hath yen and wode hath eres
                                
                                  It is full feire a man to bere hym even
                                
                                  ffor all day meteth men at vnset steven
                                  Line 1524 
                                
                                  ffull litell wote Arcite of his felawe
                                
                                  That was so ny to herken all his sawe
                                
                                  ffor in this bussh he sitteth now full stylle
                                
                                  Whan þat Arcite hade romed all his fylle
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                                  And songen all the roundell lustely
                                
                                  In-to a stody he felle so sodeinly
                                
                                  As done thise louers in her queint geres
                                
                                  Now in the crop now in the breres

                                  Line 1532

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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 44
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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