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

                                
                                  That he nys clad & redy for to ryde
                                
                                  With hunte & horn & houndis hym besyde [V. 77.] 
                                
                                  ffor in hese huntynge hath he swych delyȝt [V. 78.] 
                                
                                  That it is al hese Ioye & apetyt
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                                  To ben hym self the grete hertys bane
                                
                                  ffor ofte mars he seruyth now dyane
                                
                                  Cler was þe day as I haue told or this
                                
                                  And Thesyus with alle Ioye & blys [folio 155a] 
                                
                                  With hese ypolita the fayre quene
                                
                                  And Emale clothed al in grene [[See XII. 65.]] 
                                
                                  On huntyng be þey redyn really
                                
                                  And to the groue stod ful faste by
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                                  In whech there was an hert as men him tolde
                                
                                  Deuk thesyus þe ryȝte weye hath holde
                                
                                  And to the launde he rydith hym ful ryȝt
                                
                                  ffor there was the hert wone to have his flyȝt
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                                  And ouer a brok & so forth on hese weye
                                
                                  This deuk wele han a cours with hym or tweye
                                
                                  With houndis which as hym lyste comaunde
                                
                                  And whan This deuk was comyn vn-to þe launde
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                                  Vndir the sunne he lokyth & þat a-non
                                
                                  He was war of Arcite & Palamon
                                
                                  That foutyn breme as it were boris too
                                
                                  The bryȝte swerdis wentyn to & fro
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                                  So hidously that with the leste strok
                                
                                  It semede as it wolde felle an ok
                                
                                  But what þey were no þyng he ne wot
                                
                                  This deuk hese courser with the sporys smot [V. 82.] 
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                                  And at a stert he was be-twixe hem too
                                
                                  And pulle out a swerd & cryede hoo
                                
                                  No more vp peyne of lesynge of ȝoure hed
                                
                                  Be myghti mars he schal a-non be ded
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                                  That smyth ony strok that I may sen
                                
                                  But telle me what myster men ȝe ben [V. 83.] 
                                
                                  That ben so hardy for to fytyn here
                                
                                  With-outyn Iuge or oþer offiser

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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.
Canvas: Page 49
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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