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

                                
                                  Aboue hir heed / hir dowues flikerynge
                                
                                  Biforn hire / stood hir sone Cupido
                                
                                  Vp on his shuldres / wynges hadde he two
                                  Line 1964 
                                
                                  And blynd he was / as it was often seene
                                
                                  A bowe he bar / and Arwes brighte and kene
                                
                                  ¶ Why sholde I noght / as wel eek telle yow al
                                
                                  The portreiture / that was vp on the wal
                                  Line 1968 
                                
                                  With Inne the temple / of myghty Mars the rede
                                
                                  Al peynted was the wal / in lengthe and brede
                                
                                  Lyk to the estres / of the grisly place
                                
                                  That highte the grete temple of Mars in Trace
                                  Line 1972 
                                
                                  In thilke colde / frosty Region
                                
                                  Ther as Mars / hath his souereyn mansion
                                
                                  ¶ ffirst on the wal / was peynted a forest
                                
                                  In which ther dwelleth / neither man ne best
                                  Line 1976 
                                
                                  With knotty knarry / bareyne trees olde
                                
                                  Of stubbes sharpe / and hidouse to biholde
                                
                                  In which ther ran / a rumbel and a swough
                                
                                  As though a storm / sholde bresten euery bough
                                  Line 1980 
                                
                                  And dounward from an hille / vnder a bente
                                
                                  Ther stood the temple of Mars Armypotente
                                
                                  Wroght al of burned steel / of which the entree
                                
                                  Was long and streit and gastly for to see [.i. impetus] 
                                  Line 1984 
                                
                                  And ther out came a rage / and suche a veze
                                
                                  That it made / al the gate for to rese
                                
                                  The Northren lyght in at the dores shoon
                                
                                  ffor wyndowe / on the wal ne was ther noon
                                  Line 1988 
                                
                                  Thurgh which men myghten / any light discerne
                                
                                  The dore was al / of Adamant eterne
                                
                                  Yclenched / ouerthwart and endelong [folio 26a] 
                                
                                  With Iren tough / and for to make it strong
                                  Line 1992 
                                
                                  Euery pyler the temple to sustene
                                
                                  Was tonne greet of Iren bright and shene
                                
                                  ¶ Ther saugh I first the dirke ymaginyng
                                
                                  Of felonye / and the compassyng
                                  Line 1996 
                                
                                  The crueel Ire / reed as any gleede

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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 57
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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