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 after rod the Quene / and Emelye
                                
                                  And after that / a-nother companye
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                                  Of on and other / after here degree
                                
                                  And thus they passen / thorugh-ouȝt the Citee
                                
                                  And to the lystes / come they be tyme
                                
                                  It nas nouȝt of the day / ȝet fully pryme
                                  Line 2576 
                                
                                  ¶ . Whan set was Theseus / ful riche and heye
                                
                                  ypolita the Quene / and Emelye
                                
                                  And other ladies / in degrees a-boute
                                
                                  Vn-to the setes / preseth euery route
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                                  And westward / þorugh the gates / vnder Marte
                                
                                  Arcite / and eke the C / of his parte
                                
                                  with baner red / is entred right a-non
                                
                                  ¶ . And in þat selue moment / Palamon
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                                  Is vnder venus / estward in the place
                                
                                  with baner whit / & hardy chere and face
                                
                                  In al the world / to seken vp and doun
                                
                                  So euene / with-oute variacion
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                                  There ne is / swich companyes twey
                                
                                  ffor there was non / so wys þat koude sey
                                
                                  That any had / of other auauntage
                                
                                  Of worthynesse / ne of estate ne Age
                                  Line 2592 
                                
                                  So euen were they / chosen for to gesse
                                
                                  And in two renges / faire they hem dresse
                                
                                  whan þat here names / red were euerychon
                                
                                  That in here noumbre / gyle were þere non
                                  Line 2596 
                                
                                  Tho were the gates shette / and cried was loude
                                
                                  Do now ȝoure deuer / ȝonge knyghtes proude
                                
                                  ¶ . The heraudes left here prekyng / vp and doun
                                
                                  Now ryngen trompes loude / and Clarioun
                                  Line 2600 
                                
                                  There nys nomore to sey / but west and Est [folio 33b]  [¶ Nota] 
                                
                                  In gon the speres / ful sadly in the rest
                                
                                  In goth the sharp spore / in-to the syde
                                
                                  Þere se men who can Iuste / and who can ryde
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                                  They sheueren shaftes / vp-on sheldes thikke
                                
                                  he feleth þorugh the hert spone / the prikke

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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 74
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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