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

                                
                                  Vp spryngyn sperys twenty fote on heyghte
                                
                                  Out gon þe swerdis as the syluyr bryght
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                                  The helmys they hewyn & to-schrede
                                
                                  Out brest the blod with sterne stremys rede
                                
                                  With myghty macys the bonys they to-breste [See VIII. 14, 29, 33, 40, 69, 81, &c.] 
                                
                                  He thour the thikkeste of the thrang gan threste
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                                  There semblyn stedys stronge & doun goth al
                                
                                  He rollith vndyr fote as doth a bal
                                
                                  He foynyth on hese feet with hese trunchoun
                                
                                  And he hym hurtelith with hese hors adoun
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                                  He thour the body is hurt & sithe take
                                
                                  Magry his hed & brough vn-to the stake
                                
                                  As forward was / ryȝt þere he wolde abyde
                                
                                  Anoþer lad is on that oþer syde
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                                  And sumtyme doth hem Thesius to reste [folio 168a] 
                                
                                  Hem to frossche & drynkyn ȝif hem leste
                                
                                  fful ofte a day han these Thebens two [VIII. 12.] 
                                
                                  To-gedere I-met & wrought hese felawys wo
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                                  Vn-horsede hath eche oþer of hem tweye
                                
                                  Ther nas no Tigre in the vale of Galgopheye
                                
                                  Whan that here whelp is stole whil it is lyte [VIII. 26.] 
                                
                                  So crewel on the hunte as is arcyte
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                                  ffor Ielous herte vp-on this Palamoun
                                
                                  Ne in Belmarye þere ne is non so fel lyoun
                                
                                  That huntid is or for hese hungyr wod
                                
                                  Ne of hese prey desyreth so the blod
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                                  As Palamoun to slen hese fo Arcyte
                                
                                  The Ieluse strokys on here helmys byte
                                
                                  Out rennyth blod on boþe here sydis rede
                                
                                  Sumtyme an ende þere is of eyþer dede
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                                  ffor er the sunne vn-to þe reste wente
                                
                                  The strong kyng / emetryus gan hente
                                
                                  This Palamoun as he faught with Arcyte
                                
                                  And made his swerd depe in hese flesch to bite
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                                  And be the forse of twenty is he take
                                
                                  Vn-ȝoldyn & Idrawyn to the stake

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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 75
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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