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 ...

                                
                                  An Egle tame / as ony lilly whyt
                                
                                  An C / lordes / had he with him there
                                
                                  Alle armed saue here hedes / in al here gere
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                                  fful richely / in alle manere thynges
                                
                                  ffor trosteth wele / that Dukes Erles kynges
                                
                                  were gadred / in this noble companye
                                
                                  ffor loue & for encres / of chyualrye
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                                  A-boute this kyng / þere ran on euery part
                                
                                  fful many a tame lyon / and leopart
                                
                                  ¶ . And in this wyse / þeise lordes alle and Some
                                
                                  Ben on the Sonday / to the Cite come
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                                  A-boute prime / and in the Toun a-light
                                
                                  This Theseus þis Duke / this worthy knyght
                                
                                  whan he had brouȝt hem / in-to his Citee
                                
                                  And Inned euerych of hem / at his degree
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                                  He festeth hem / and doth so gret labour
                                
                                  To esen hem / and don hem all honour
                                
                                  That ȝet man wenen / þat no mannys wytte
                                
                                  Of none astate / ne coude amenden ytte
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                                  ¶ . The mynstralsie / the seruyse at the feest
                                
                                  The grete ȝiftes / to the most and lest [folio 29a] 
                                
                                  The riche a-ray / of Theseus paleys
                                
                                  Ne who sat first ne last / vp on the deys
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                                  what ladies fairest ben / and best daunsynge
                                
                                  Or which of hem / kan best daunce or synge
                                
                                  Ne who most feynyngly / speketh of loue
                                
                                  what haukes seten / on the perches a-boue
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                                  what houndes liggen / on the flore a-doune
                                
                                  Of al this / make I no mencion
                                
                                  But al þe effect / that thynketh me the best
                                
                                  Now cometh the poynt / herkeneth if ȝow lest
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                                  ¶ . The Sonday nyght / or day bygan to springe
                                
                                  whan Palamon / the lark herde synge
                                
                                  al though it nere nat day / by houres two
                                
                                  Ȝet song the lark / and Palamon right tho
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                                  with holy hert / and hey corage

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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 63
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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