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

                                
                                  How atthalaunte huntid þe wilde bore
                                
                                  And Melyagre & manye a-noþer mo
                                
                                  ffor whiche diane wrouȝte hym care & wo
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                                  There saw I manye a-noþer wondir story
                                
                                  The wheche me lyste not drawe to memory
                                
                                  This goddesse on an hart [[art nearly erased]]  / wol hye set
                                
                                  With smale hundys / al aboute here fet
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                                  And vndirnethe here fet / sche hadde a mone
                                
                                  Waxinge it was & schulde wanye sone
                                
                                  In gaude grene here statue clothede was
                                
                                  With bowe in hond & arwis in a cas
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                                  Here eyȝyn caste sche / ful lowe adoun [folio 160b] 
                                
                                  Ther pluto hath / here derke regioun
                                
                                  A woman trauaylynge / hadde sche be-forn
                                
                                  But for here child / so longe was on-born
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                                  fful pitusly lucyane gan sche calle
                                
                                  And seyde help for þou mayst best of alle
                                
                                  Wel coude he peynte lyfly that it wrouȝte
                                
                                  With manye a floreyn / heye it was bouȝte
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                                  Now ben these lystis / made & thesyus
                                
                                  That at hese grete cost arayed þus
                                
                                  The temple & the theatre euerydel
                                
                                  Whan it was don / it likede hym wondyr wel
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                                  But stynte I wele of Thesyus a lyte
                                
                                  And speke of Palamoun & [of] Arcite
                                
                                  The day a-prochith of here returnynge
                                
                                  That eueryche schulde an hunderit knyȝtis brynge
                                  Line 2096 
                                
                                  The batayle to darrayn as I ȝou tolde
                                
                                  And to atenys here couenaunt for to holde
                                
                                  Hath eueryche of hem brouȝt an hunderit knyȝtis
                                
                                  Wel armede for to werre at alle ryȝtis
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                                  And sekyrly þere trowede manye a man
                                
                                  That neuere sithe that the world be-gan [VI. 71.] 
                                
                                  As for to spe[ke] of knyght-hod of here hond
                                
                                  As fer as god hath makyd se & sond
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                                  Nas of so fewe so noble a cumpany [VI. 71.]

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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 60
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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