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

                                
                                  Ne how the ground / agast was of the light
                                
                                  That was nat wont to seen the sonne bright
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                                  Ne how the fyr / was couched first with stree
                                
                                  And thanne with drye stokkes / clouen a thre
                                
                                  And thanne with grene wode and spicerye
                                
                                  And thanne with clooth of gold / and with perrye
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                                  And gerlandes / hangynge / with ful many a flour
                                
                                  The Mirre / thencens / with al so greet odour
                                
                                  Ne how Arcite / lay among al this
                                
                                  Ne what richesse / aboute his body is
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                                  Ne how that Emelye / as was the gyse
                                
                                  Putte in the fyr / of funeral seruyse
                                
                                  Ne how she swowned / whan men made fyr
                                
                                  Ne what she spak ne what was hir desire
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                                  Ne what Ieweles / men in the fyre caste
                                
                                  Whan þat the fyr was greet and brente faste
                                
                                  ¶ Ne how somme caste hir sheeld / and somme hir spere [folio 36a] 
                                
                                  And of hire vestimentz / whiche þat they were
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                                  And coppes full of wyn / and Milk and blood
                                
                                  In to the fyr / that brente / as it were wood
                                
                                  Ne how the grekes / with an huge route
                                
                                  Tries riden / al the place aboute
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                                  Vp on the left hand / with a loud shoutynge
                                
                                  And thries / with hir speres claterynge
                                
                                  And thries / how the ladyes gonne crye
                                
                                  And how / þat lad was homward Emelye
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                                  Ne how Arcite / is brent to asshen colde
                                
                                  Ne / how that lych wake / was yholde
                                
                                  Al thilke nyght / ne how the grekes pleye
                                
                                  The wake pleyes / ne kepe I nat to seye
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                                  Who wrastleth best naked / with oille enoynt
                                
                                  Ne who that baar hym best in no disioynt
                                
                                  ¶ I wol nat tellen eek how that they goon
                                
                                  Hoom til Atthenes / whan the pley is doon
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                                  But shortly to the point thanne wol I wende
                                
                                  And maken / of my longe tale an ende

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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 84
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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