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

                                
                                  The þridde bar with him his bowe turkeys
                                
                                  Of brent gold was þe caas and eek þe harneys
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                                  And ryden forþ a paas with sorwful cheere
                                
                                  Toward þe groue as ȝe schul after heere
                                
                                  The noblest of þe Greekes þat þer were
                                
                                  vpon here schuldres carieden þe beere
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                                  With slake paas and eighen reede and wete
                                
                                  Þurghout þe Cite by þe maistre streete /
                                
                                  That sprad was al with blak and wonder highe
                                
                                  Right of þe same is þe same is þe street y-wrye
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                                  vpon þe right hond went olde Egeus
                                
                                  And on þat other syde duk Theseus
                                
                                  With vessels in here hand of gold ful fyne
                                
                                  As ful of hony melk and blood and wyne
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                                  Ek Palaman with ful gret companye
                                
                                  And after þat com woful Emelye
                                
                                  With fire in honde as was þat tyme þe gyse
                                
                                  To do þoffice of funeral seruise
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                                  Heigh labour and ful gret apparaillyng
                                
                                  Was atte seruise and þe fir makyng [folio 41b] 
                                
                                  That wiþ his greene top þe heuene raughte
                                
                                  And twenty fadme of brede þe armes straughte /
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                                  This is to sein þe bowes were so brode
                                
                                  Of stree first þer was leyd many a loode
                                
                                  But how þe fir was maked vp on heighte
                                
                                  Ne eek þe names how þe trees highte
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                                  As Ok. fir. birch. asp. Alder. holm. popeler
                                
                                  Willow. Elm. plane. Assh. box. chesteyn lynde laurer.
                                
                                  Mapel. þorn. beech. hasill. ew. whipiltre
                                
                                  how þey were felde schal not be told for me
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                                  Ne how þe goddes ronnen vp and doun
                                
                                  Disherited of here habitacioun
                                
                                  In which þei woneden in reste and pees
                                
                                  Nymphes ffawnes and amadries /
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                                  Ne how þe beestes and þe briddes alle
                                
                                  ffledden for feered whan þe woode was falle /

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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 83
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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