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 he nys cladde / and redy for to ride
                                
                                  with hunt and horn and houndes him besyde
                                
                                  ffor in his huntyng hath he soch delite
                                
                                  That yt is all his ioy and appetit [Eg. 2726 folio 22a] 
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                                  To ben him self the grete hertes bane
                                
                                  And after Mars he serueth now diane
                                
                                  Clere was the day as I haue tolde or this
                                
                                  And Theseus with all ioy and blis
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                                  With his ypolita the feir quene
                                
                                  And Emely clothed all in grene
                                
                                  On huntyng be they riden rially
                                
                                  And to the groue that stode full fast by
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                                  In which there was an hert as men him told
                                
                                  Duk Theseus streight the wey hath hold
                                
                                  And to the launde he rideth hym full right
                                
                                  ffor theder was the hert wont haue his flight
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                                  And ouer a broke and so forth on his way
                                
                                  This duk woll haue a cours at hym or twey
                                
                                  with soch as that hym lyst comaunde
                                
                                  And whan this duk was com vn-to the launde
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                                  Vnder the sonne he lokketh and anon
                                
                                  He was ware of Arcite and palamon
                                
                                  That foughten breme as it were bores two
                                
                                  The bright swerdes wenten to and fro
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                                  So hidously that with the lest stroke
                                
                                  yt semed as yt wold felle an oke
                                
                                  But what they were no thing he ne wote
                                
                                  This duk his courser with the spores smote
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                                  And at a stert he was bitwex hem two
                                
                                  And pulled out a swerde and cried ho
                                
                                  Nomore vp-on peyne of lesyng of your hede
                                
                                  By mighty Mars he shall anone be dede
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                                  That smyteth ony stroke þat I may seen
                                
                                  But telleth me what mister men ye been
                                
                                  That ben so hardy for to fighten here
                                
                                  with-outen Iuge or other officere

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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 49
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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