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

                                
                                     [6-text p 513] 
                                  
                                  What schulde I make a lenger tale of þis
                                
                                  Vnto his broþer bedde come he is
                                
                                  And such confort he ȝaff him for to gon
                                
                                  To Orlyaunce þat he vpstarte anon [folio 165b] 
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                                  And on his way forþward is he fare
                                
                                  In hope to ben y-lissed of his care /
                                
                                  When þay were come almost to þat Cite
                                
                                  But if it were a tuo forlong oþir þre
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                                  A ȝong clerk romyng by himself þey mette
                                
                                  Which þat in latyn thriftily hem grette
                                
                                  And after þat he sayde a wonder þing
                                
                                  I knowe quod he þe cause of ȝoure comyng
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                                  And er þey forþer any foote went
                                
                                  he tolde hem alle þat was in here entent
                                
                                  This brytoun clerk him asked of felawes
                                
                                  The which þat he had knowen in olde dawes
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                                  And he answerde him þat þey dede were /
                                
                                  ffor which he wepe ful ofte many a tere
                                
                                  Doun of his hors Aurelius light anon
                                
                                  And forþ wiþ þis magicien forþ is he gon
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                                  home to his hous and made hem wel at ese /
                                
                                  hem lacked no vitayle þat hem might plese /
                                
                                  So wel arrayed hous as þer was oon
                                
                                  Aurelius in his lyf saugh noon
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                                  He schewed him er he wente to sopere
                                
                                  fforestes parkes ful of wilde deere
                                
                                  [there saw he hartes / with hornys ful highe [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14.]] 
                                
                                  pasturynge right faire / & merilie
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                                  he saw of hem an hundred / sleyn with houndes
                                
                                  and somme with arwis blede / & bitter woundes
                                
                                  he saw when voided were / the wilde dere
                                
                                  these ffaukeners / vppon a faire Rivere]
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                                  And how ffaukons han þe heron slayne
                                
                                  Then sawe he knightes iusten in a playne
                                
                                  And after þis he dide him such plesaunce
                                
                                  That he him schewed his lady in a daunce

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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 364
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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