The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  lokyng vpward vpon þis Emelye
                                
                                  And sche again him caste a frendlich yhe
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                                  ffor wommen as to speken in comune
                                
                                  Thei folwen all þe fauour of fortune/
                                
                                  And was al his chier as in his herde/
                                
                                  Out of þe ground a fir Infernal sterte/
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                                  ffrom pluto sent atte request of Saturne/
                                
                                  ffor which his hors for feere gan to turne/
                                
                                  And leep a syde and foundred as he leep
                                
                                  And ar þat arcite may taken keep
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                                  he plight him on þe pomel of his heede
                                
                                  That in þe place he lay as he were deede
                                
                                  His brest to-brosten with his sadel bowe
                                
                                  As blak he lay as any cole or crowe
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                                  So was þe blood y-ronne in his face
                                
                                  Anon he was born out of þe place
                                
                                  Wiþ herte soor to Theseus paleys
                                
                                  Tho was he coruen out of his harneys
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                                  And in a bed I-brought ful fair and blyue
                                
                                  ffor he was yet in memorie and a lyue / [folio 38b] 
                                
                                  And alwey cryeng after Emelye
                                
                                  Duc Theseus with all his companye/
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                                  Is comen hom to Athenes his Citee
                                
                                  With alle blisse and gret solempnete
                                
                                  Al be it þat þis auenture was falle
                                
                                  he nolde not disconforten hem alle
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                                  Men seyde eek þat arcite schal not dye
                                
                                  he schal ben heled of his maladye
                                
                                  And of anoþer þing þei were as fayn
                                
                                  That of hem alle was þer non y-slayn
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                                  Alle were þei sore hurt and namely oon
                                
                                  That with a spere was þerled his brest boon
                                
                                  To oþer woundes and to broken armes
                                
                                  Some hadden salue and some hadden charmes
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                                  ffermacies of herbes and eek saue
                                
                                  Thei dronke for þei wolde here lyues haue

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 77
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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