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

                                
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                                  ¶ What sholde I make / a lenger tale of this
                                
                                  Vn to his brotheres bed / he comen is
                                
                                  And swich confort he yaf hym for to gon
                                
                                  To Orliens / that he vp stirte anon
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                                  And on his wey / forthward thanne is he fare
                                
                                  In hope / for to been lissed of his care
                                
                                  ¶ Whan they were come / almoost to that Citee
                                
                                  But if it were / a two furlong or thre
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                                  A yong clerk romynge by hym self they mette
                                
                                  Which þat in latyn / thriftily hem grette
                                
                                  And after that he seyde a wonder thyng
                                
                                  I knowe quod he / the cause of youre comyng
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                                  And er they ferther / any foote wente
                                
                                  He tolde hem / al that was in hire entente
                                
                                  ¶ This Briton clerk hym asked of felawes
                                
                                  The whiche þat he had knowe / in olde dawes
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                                  And he answerde hym / that they dede were [folio 132b] 
                                
                                  ffor which / he weep ful ofte many a teere
                                
                                  ¶ Doun of his hors / Aurelius lighte anon
                                
                                  And with this Magicien / forth is he gon
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                                  Hoom to his hous / and maden hem wel at ese
                                
                                  Hem lakked no vitaille / þat myghte hem plese
                                
                                  So wel arrayed hous / as ther was oon
                                
                                  Aurelius in his lyf / saugh neuere noon
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                                  ¶ He shewed hym / er he wente to Sopeer
                                
                                  fforestes / Parkes / ful of wilde deer
                                
                                  Ther saugh he hertes / with hir hornes hye
                                
                                  The gretteste / that euere were seyn with eye
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                                  He saugh of hem / an hondred slayn with houndes
                                
                                  And somme with Arwes blede / of bittre woundes
                                
                                  ¶ He saugh / whan voyded were thise wilde deer
                                
                                  Thise ffauconers / vpon a fair Ryuer
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                                  That with hir haukes / han the heron slayn
                                
                                  ¶ Tho saugh he knyghtes / iustyng in a playn
                                
                                  And after this / he dide hym swich plesaunce
                                
                                  That he hym shewed / his lady on a daunce

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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 348
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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