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

                                
                                  Lookyng vpward / vp on this Emelye
                                
                                  And she agayn / hym caste a freendly eye
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                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  And she was al his cheere / as in his herte
                                
                                  Out of the ground / a furye Infernal sterte
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                                  ffrom Pluto sent at requeste of Saturne
                                
                                  ffor which his hors / for feere gan to turne
                                
                                  And leep asyde / and foundred as he leepe
                                
                                  And er þat Arcite / may taken keepe
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                                  He pighte hym / on the pomel of his heed
                                
                                  That in the place / he lay as he were deed
                                
                                  His brest to brosten / with his Sadel bowe
                                
                                  As blak he lay / as any col / or crowe
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                                  So was the blood / yronnen in his face
                                
                                  Anon he was yborn out of the place
                                
                                  With herte soor / to Theseus Paleys
                                
                                  Tho was he coruen / out of his harneys
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                                  And in a bed ybroght ful faire and blyue
                                
                                  ffor he was yet in memorie and alyue
                                
                                  And alwey cryinge / after Emelye [folio 36a] 
                                
                                  ¶ Duc Theseus / with al his compaignye
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                                  Is comen hoom / to Atthenes his Citee
                                
                                  With alle blisse / and greet solempnytee
                                
                                  Al be it þat this auenture was falle
                                
                                  He nolde noght disconforten hem alle
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                                  ¶ Men seyde eek Arcite / shal nat dye
                                
                                  He shal been heelyd / of his maladye
                                
                                  And of another thyng / they were as fayn
                                
                                  That of hem alle / was ther noon yslayn
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                                  Al were they soore yhurt and namely oon
                                
                                  That with a Spere / was thirled the brest boon
                                
                                  ¶ To oothere woundes / and to broken armes
                                
                                  Somme hadden salues / and somme hadden charmes
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                                  ffermacyes of herbes and eek saue
                                
                                  They dronken / for they wolde hir lymes haue

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 77
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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