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 ...

                                
                                  how Atthalaunce / honted the wylde bore
                                
                                  And Meleagre / and many an other moo
                                
                                  ffor which / Diane / wrouȝt hem care and woo
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                                  There saw I many a noþer / wonder story
                                
                                  The which me list nat drawe / to memory
                                
                                  This goddesse on an hert / ful heye sette
                                
                                  with smale houndes / al a-boute hire fete
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                                  And vndirnethe hire feet / she had a Mone
                                
                                  waxyng it was / & shulde vanysshe sone
                                
                                  In gaude grene / hire stature clothed was
                                
                                  with bow in hond / and arwes in a cas
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                                  hire eyen cast she / ful lowe a-doun
                                
                                  There Pluto hath / his derke region
                                
                                  A womman trauaillyng / was hire biforn
                                
                                  But for hire child / so longe was vn-born
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                                  fful pytously Lucyna / gan she calle
                                
                                  And seide help / for þou maist best of alle
                                
                                  wel coude he peynt lifly / that it wrought
                                
                                  with many a floreyn / he the hewes bought
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                                  ¶ . Now ben theise lystes mad / and Theseus
                                
                                  That at his gret cost / arrayed thus
                                
                                  The temples / and the teatre euery dele
                                
                                  Whan it was don / him liked wonder wele
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                                  But stynte I wyl / of Theseus a lyte
                                
                                  And speke of Palamon / and of Arcite
                                
                                  ¶ . The day approcheth / of here returnynge
                                
                                  That euerych shulde / an / C / knyghtis brynge
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                                  The bataylle to darreyne / as I ȝow told
                                
                                  And to Athenes / here couenaunt for to hold
                                
                                  hath euerych of hem / brought an / C / knyghtes
                                
                                  wel armed for the werre / at alle rightes
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                                  And sekerly / there trowed many a man
                                
                                  That neuere sithen / þat the world bygan
                                
                                  As for to speke / of knyghthod of here hond
                                
                                  As fer as god hath maked / see and lond
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                                  Nas of so fewe / so noble a companye

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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 60
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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