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 ...

                                
                                  Ȝet was here deth / depeynted þere biforn
                                
                                  By manassyng of Mars / right be figure
                                
                                  So was it shewed / in that portrature
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                                  As is depeynted / in the sertres a-boue
                                
                                  who shal be slayn / or elles ded for loue
                                
                                  Suffiseth on ensaumple / in stories olde
                                
                                  I may nat rekken hem alle / though I wolde
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                                  ¶ . The statute of Mars / vp on a carte stode
                                
                                  Armed and loked grym / as he were wode
                                
                                  And ouer his hed / þere shynen two figures
                                
                                  Of stories / þat ben cleped / in scriptures
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                                  That on Puella / that other Rubeus
                                
                                  This god of armes / was a-rayed thus
                                
                                  A wolf þere stode / biforn him at his fete
                                
                                  with eyen rede / and of a man he ete
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                                  with sotil pencelles / was depeynted þis storie
                                
                                  In redoutyng of Mars / & of his glorie
                                
                                  ¶ . Now to the Temple / of Diane the chaste
                                
                                  As shortly as I can / I wyl me haste
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                                  To tellen ȝow / of the discripcion
                                
                                  Depeynted by the walles / vp and doun
                                
                                  Of huntyng / and of shamefast chastite
                                
                                  There saugh I / how wooful Calistope
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                                  whan þat Diane / a-greued was with hire
                                
                                  was turned fro a womman / to a Beere
                                
                                  and aftir was she mad / þe lode sterre [¶ vrsa maior] 
                                
                                  Thus was it peynted / I can sey ȝow no ferre
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                                  Hire sone is eke / a sterre as men may se
                                
                                  There saugh I Dane / turned to a tre
                                
                                  I mene nat / the goddes Diane
                                
                                  But Penneus doughter / which þat hight Dane [folio 27b] 
                                
                                  There saugh I Atheon / an hert I-maked
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                                  ffor vengeaunce þat he saugh / Diane al naked
                                
                                  I saw how þat hise houndes / han him caught
                                
                                  And fretyn him / for þat þei knew him naught
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                                  Ȝet peynted was / a litel forthermore

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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 59
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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