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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 ...

The sheldes bright / testres and trappures Gold hewen helmes / hauberkes Cotearmures 2500 Lordes in parmentis / or here courseres knyghtes of retenue / and eke squyeres Naylyng the speres / and helmes bokelyng Gynggynge of sheldes / with layneres lassyng 2504 There as nede is / they were no thyng Idel The fomy steedes / on the goldene brydel Gnawyng / and faste the armures also with fyle and hamer / prykyng to and fro 2508 Ȝemen on fote / and comunes many on [folio 32b] with shorte staues / thikke as they may gon Pipes / trompes / Nakeres Clariones That in the bataill / blowen blody sownes 2512 The paleys ful of peeple / vp and doun here thre / there /x/ holdyng here question Diuynyng of theise Thebans / knyghtes two Somme seyden thus / som seyden it shal be so 2516 Somme heldyn with him / with the blak berde Some with the balled / some with the thikke herede Somme seide he loked grym / and he wold fyght he hath a sparthe / of twenty pound of wyght 2520 Thus was the halle / ful of dyuynyng longe after the sonne / gan vp spryng ¶ . The grete Theseus / of his slep a-waked with mynstralsie / and noise þat was maked 2524 he held ȝet the chaumbres / of his paleys riche Til þat the Thebans knyghtes / bothe I-liche Houndred / weren in-to the paleys fet Duke Theseus / is at the wyndowe set 2528 Arrayed / right as he were / a god in trone The peeple preseth / thederward ful sone Hym for to sen / and don hey reuerence And eke to herken / his hest / and his sentence 2532 ¶ . An heraud on a skaffold / made an oo Til al the noyse of the peeple / was I-do
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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 ...
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,
1902.

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