The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  Ne how the ground agast was of the lyght
                                
                                  That was not wont to sen the sunne brygh[t] [XI. 21.] 
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                                  Ne how the fer was couche fyrst with stre [XI. 27.] 
                                
                                  And þanne with dreye stikkis clouyn a thre
                                
                                  And þanne with grene wode & spicerye
                                
                                  An þanne with cloth of gold & with perrye [XI. 29.] 
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                                  And garlondis hangynge with mani [[ani: later]]  a flour [XI. 27.] 
                                
                                  The mirre [[irre: later]]  þe ensens with al so gret odour [XI. 28.] 
                                
                                  Ne how arcite lay a-mong al [[l: later]]  þis [XI. 39.] 
                                
                                  Ne what richesse a-boute hese body Is
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                                  Ne how þat Emelye as was te gyse [XI. 40.] 
                                
                                  Putte in the fuyr of funeral seruyse
                                
                                  Ne how sche swounnede whan men made þe fuyr [XI. 41-46.] 
                                
                                  Ne what sche spak ne what was here desyr
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                                  Ne what Iewell men in the fuyr caste [XI. 48, 50.] 
                                
                                  Whan þat the fuyr was gret & brente faste
                                
                                  Ne how some caste here schyld & some here spere [folio 172b]  [XI. 56.] 
                                
                                  And of here vestementis which þat they were [XI. 50.] 
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                                  And cuppis ful of wyn & mylk & blod [XI. 50, 51.] 
                                
                                  In-to the fuyr þat brente as it were wod
                                
                                  Ne how the grekys with an heuge route [XI. 52.] 
                                
                                  Thryes redyn al the fuyre a-boute [XI. 53.] 
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                                  Vp-on the left half with a loud schoutynge
                                
                                  And thryes with here sperys claterynge [[line repeated and crossed out]] 
                                
                                  And thryes how the ladyis gunne crye [XI. 54.] 
                                
                                  Ne how that lad was hom-ward Emalye
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                                  Ne how Arcyte was brent to asschyn colde [XI. 57, 58.] 
                                
                                  Ne how that lyche / wake was I-holde [XI. 59-67.] 
                                
                                  Al thilke nyght ne how the grekys pleye
                                
                                  The wake-pleyis ne kepe I not to seye
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                                  Who wrestelyth best nakyd with oille enoynt
                                
                                  Ne who þat bar hym best in no disioynt
                                
                                  I wele not tellyn ek how þat þey gon
                                
                                  Hom to athenys whan the pley is don
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                                  But schortly to the poynt þanne wele I wende
                                
                                  And makyn of myn longe tale an ende

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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