The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  Hadden for loue / the bataille hem bitwene
                                
                                  That in that selue groue / swoote and grene
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                                  Ther as he hadde / hise amorouse desires
                                
                                  His compleynte / and for loue hise hoote fires
                                
                                  He wolde make a fyr / in which the office
                                
                                  ffuneral / he myghte al accomplice
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                                  And leet comande anon / to hakke and hewe
                                
                                  The okes olde / and leye hem on a rewe
                                
                                  In colpons / wel arrayed for to brenne
                                
                                  Hise Officers / with swifte feet they renne
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                                  And ryden anon / at his comandement
                                
                                  And after / this / Theseus hath ysent
                                
                                  After a beere / and it al ouer spradde
                                
                                  With clooth of gold / the richeste / þat he hadde
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                                  And of the same suyte / he cladde Arcite
                                
                                  Vp on his hondes / hadde he gloues white
                                
                                  Eek on his heed / a coroune of laurer grene
                                
                                  And in his hond / a swerd ful bright and kene
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                                  He leyde hym bare the visage / on the beere
                                
                                  Ther-with he weepe / that pitee was to heere
                                
                                  And for the peple / sholde seen hym alle
                                
                                  Whan it was day / he broghte hym to the halle
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                                  That roreth / of the criyng and the soun
                                
                                  ¶ Tho cam this woful Theban Palamon
                                
                                  With flotery berd / and rugged asshy heeres
                                
                                  In clothes blake / ydropped al with teeres
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                                  And passynge othere / of wepynge Emelye
                                
                                  The rewefulleste / of al the compaignye
                                
                                  [And] In as muche / as the seruyce sholde be
                                
                                  The moore noble / and riche in his degree
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                                  Duc Theseus / leet forth thre steedes brynge
                                
                                  That trapped were in steel al gliterynge
                                
                                  And couered with the armes of daun Arcite
                                
                                  Vp on thise steedes / grete and white
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                                  Ther sitten folk of whiche oon baar his sheeld
                                
                                  Another his spere / in his hondes heeld

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 82
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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