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

                                
                                  Ȝit was here deth depeyntid þere be-forn
                                
                                  By manasynge of mars ryȝt by fygure
                                
                                  So was it schewid in that portreture
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                                  As is depeyntid in the sertres above
                                
                                  Who schal be slayn or elle ded for loue
                                
                                  Suffiseth on ensaumple in storyis olde
                                
                                  I may not rekene hem thow I wolde
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                                  The statue of mars vp-on a carte stod
                                
                                  Armyd & lokede grym as he were wod
                                
                                  And ouer hese hed þere schynyn two figurys
                                
                                  Of storyis þat ben clepid in scripturys
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                                  That on puella that othir Rubeus [folio 160a] 
                                
                                  This god of armys was arayed thus
                                
                                  A wolf there stod be-forn hym at hese fet
                                
                                  With eyȝyn rede & of a man he et
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                                  With sotyl pensel was depeyntid þis story
                                
                                  In redoutynge of mars & of hese glory
                                
                                  Now to the temple of dyane the chaste [Dyane] 
                                
                                  As schortly as I can I wele me haste
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                                  To telle ȝow al the discripcioun
                                
                                  Depeyntid ben the walle vp & doun
                                
                                  Of huntyng & of schamfast schastite
                                
                                  Ther saw I how woful Calistope
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                                  Whan that dyane agreuyd was with here
                                
                                  Was turnyd from a woman til a bere
                                
                                  And aftyr was sche mad the lode sterre
                                
                                  That shynyth in the hevyn / from yow so ferre [[whole line later]] 
                                
                                  Here sone is ek a sterre as men may se
                                
                                  There saw I dane I-turnede til a tre
                                
                                  I mene not the goddesse dyane
                                
                                  But Pennyus douȝtyr whiche that hyȝte dane
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                                  There saw I. Attheon / an hert I-makid
                                
                                  ffor vengaunce that he saw dyane al nakyd
                                
                                  I saw how that hese houndis han hym caut
                                
                                  And fretyn hym for that þey knewe hym not
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                                  Ȝit peyntid was a lityl ferþere more

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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 59
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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