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 ...

                                
                                  And whan he saw / the peeple of noyse al stille
                                
                                  Thus shewed he / the myghty Dukes wylle
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                                  ¶ . The lord hath / of heye discrecion
                                
                                  Considered / that it were destruccion
                                
                                  To gentil blode / to fighten in the gyse
                                
                                  Of mortal bataille / now in this emprise
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                                  wherfore to shapen / that they shal nat deye
                                
                                  he wol his ffirst purpos / modifie
                                
                                  ¶ . No man þerfore / vp peyne of losse of lyf
                                
                                  No maner shote / ne pollax / ne short knyf
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                                  In-to the lystes sende / or theder bryng
                                
                                  No short swerd for to steke / with poynt bityng
                                
                                  Ne noman ne drawe / ne bere it by his syde
                                
                                  Ne noman shal / vn-to his felawe ryde
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                                  But oo cours / with a sharp I-grounde spere
                                
                                  ffoyne if him list / on fote him self to were
                                
                                  And he þat is at myschef / shal be take
                                
                                  And nouȝt slayn / but be brouȝt vn-to þe stake
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                                  That shal ben ordeyned / on eyther syde
                                
                                  And thidder he shal by force / and there a-byde [folio 33a] 
                                
                                  And if so falle / that the cheuenteyn be take
                                
                                  On either syde / or elles sle his make
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                                  No lengere shal / the turnayng laste
                                
                                  God spede ȝow go forth / and ley on faste
                                
                                  with long swerd and with mace / fighteth ȝoure fille
                                
                                  Go now ȝoure wey / this is the lordes wylle
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                                  ¶ . The voys of þe peeple / toucheth the heuene
                                
                                  So loude crieden they / with mery steuene
                                
                                  God saue swich a lord / þat is so good
                                
                                  he ne wyl / no destruccion of blod
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                                  ¶ Vp gon the trumpes / and the melodye [Nota] 
                                
                                  And to the lystes / riȝt the cumpanye
                                
                                  By ordinaunce / þorugh-ouȝt the Citee large
                                
                                  Honged with cloth of gold / and nat with sarge
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                                  fful lyke a lord / this noble Duke gan ryde
                                
                                  Theise two Thebans / vp-on either side

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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 73
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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