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 ...

                                
                                  ffull of degrees the height of .lx. paas
                                
                                  That whan a man was set on o degree
                                
                                  He letted nat his felaw for to see
                                  Line 1892 
                                
                                  Estward there stode a gate of marbyll white
                                
                                  Westward right soch an other in the opposyte
                                
                                  And shortly to concluden soch a place
                                
                                  Was none in erthe as in so litell a space
                                  Line 1896 
                                
                                  ffor in the londe there was no crafty man
                                
                                  That geometrye or ars metryk can
                                
                                  Ne portreyour ne kerver of ymages
                                
                                  That Theseus ne yaf mete and wages
                                  Line 1900 
                                
                                  The teatre for to maken and devyse
                                
                                  And for to done his right and sacrifise
                                
                                  He Estward hath vp on the gate aboue
                                
                                  In worshippe of venus goddes of loue
                                  Line 1904 
                                
                                  Done made an Awter and an oratorye
                                
                                  And westward in memorie
                                
                                  Of Mars he hath maked soch an other
                                
                                  That cost largely of gold a fother
                                  Line 1908 
                                
                                  And Northward in a Toret on the wall
                                
                                  Of Alabastre white and rede corall
                                
                                  An oratorye riche for to see
                                
                                  In worshippe of Dyane the chastitee
                                  Line 1912 
                                
                                  Hath Theseus done wrought in a noble wyse
                                
                                  But yit hade I forgeten to deuyse
                                
                                  The noble kervyng and the purtratures
                                
                                  The shape the countenance and the figures
                                  Line 1916 
                                
                                  That weren in thise oratories thre
                                
                                  ffirst in the temple of venus maist þou se
                                
                                  wroght on the wall full pitous to be-holde
                                
                                  The broken slepes and the sighes colde
                                  Line 1920 
                                
                                  The sacred teres and the weymentyng
                                
                                  The verey strokes of the desiryng [Eg. 2726 folio 25a] 
                                
                                  That loue seruauntes in this lyf enduren
                                
                                  The othes that her couenauntes assuren
                                  Line 1924 
                                
                                  Plesaunce and hope desire full hardynes

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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 55
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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