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 ...

                                
                                  lokyng vp-ward / vp-on this Emelye
                                
                                  And she ageyn him cast / a frendly eye
                                  Line 2680 
                                
                                  [For wommen as speketh the comune [Eg. 2726 folio 34b]  [[Left out of Dd.]] 
                                
                                  They folowe all þe fauour of fortune [Eg. 2726 folio 34b] ]
                                
                                  And she was al his cher / as in his herte
                                
                                  Ouȝt of the ground / a fire infernel sterte
                                  Line 2684 
                                
                                  ffro Pluto sent / at the request of Saturne
                                
                                  ffor which / his hors for fer / gan to turne
                                
                                  And lepte a-side / and foundred as he lepe
                                
                                  And er that Arcite / may taken kepe
                                  Line 2688 
                                
                                  he pyght him on the pomel / of his hede
                                
                                  That in the place / he lay as he were ded
                                
                                  his brest to-brosten / with his sadel bowe
                                
                                  As blak he was / as ony cole or crowe [folio 34b] 
                                  Line 2692 
                                
                                  So was the blode / I-ronnen in his face
                                
                                  ¶ . A-non he was born / ouȝt of the place
                                
                                  With hert sore / to Theseus paleys
                                
                                  Tho was he coruen / ouȝt of his harneys
                                  Line 2696 
                                
                                  And in a bed I-brought / ful fair and blyue
                                
                                  ffor he was ȝet / in memorie and lyue
                                
                                  And alwey criyng / after Emelye
                                
                                  Duke Theseus / with al his companye
                                  Line 2700 
                                
                                  Is comen hom / to Athenes his Citee
                                
                                  With all blisse / and gret solempnyte
                                
                                  Al be it / that this auenture was falle
                                
                                  He nolde nat / discomforten hem alle
                                  Line 2704 
                                
                                  Men seide eke / Arcite shal nat deye
                                
                                  he shal ben heled / of his maladye
                                
                                  And of a-noþer thyng / they were as fayn
                                
                                  That of hem alle / was non I-slayn
                                  Line 2708 
                                
                                  Alle were they sore I-hurt / and namely on
                                
                                  That with a spere was thirled / þorugh þe brest bon
                                
                                  To oþere woundes / and to broken armes
                                
                                  Somme hadden salue / & somme hadden charmes
                                  Line 2712 
                                
                                  ffermacies of herbes / and eke saue
                                
                                  They dronken / for þei wold here lyues haue

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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 77
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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