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 hereth hym come russhing in the greves
                                
                                  And breketh both bowes and the leves
                                
                                  A thinketh here comth my mortall enemy
                                
                                  withouten fayle he mote be dede or I
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                                  ffor outher I mote sle hym at the gap
                                
                                  Or he mot sle me yf that me myshap
                                
                                  So ferden they in chaungyng of her hewe
                                
                                  As fer us euerych of hem other knewe
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                                  There was no gode day ne no saluyng
                                
                                  But streight without worde or rehersyng
                                
                                  Euerych of hem helpe to armen other
                                
                                  As frendely as he were his owen brother
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                                  And after that with sharpe speres strong
                                
                                  They foynen ecch at other wonder long
                                
                                  Thow myghtest wene that this palamon
                                
                                  In his fightyng were a wode lyon
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                                  And as a cruell tygre was Arcite
                                
                                  As wylde bores gan they smyte
                                
                                  That frothen white as fome for ire wode
                                
                                  Vp to the Ancles fyght they in her blode
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                                  And in this wyse I lete hem fightyng dwell
                                
                                  And forthe of theseus I will you tell
                                
                                  The desteny ministre generall
                                
                                  That executeth in the world ouer all
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                                  The purueaunce that god hath seyn byforn
                                
                                  So stronge it is that though þe werld hade sworn
                                
                                  The contrary of a thing by yee and nay
                                
                                  Yit somtyme yt shall fallen on a day
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                                  That falleth nat est within a Ml yere
                                
                                  ffor certeinly our appetites here
                                
                                  Be it of werre or pees or hate or loue
                                
                                  All is this rewled by the sight aboue
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                                  This meyne I now by mighty Theseus
                                
                                  That for to hunten ys so desirous
                                
                                  And namely at the grete hert in May
                                
                                  That in his bed þere daweth hym no 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 48
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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