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

                                
                                  fful of degrees þe heighte of sixty paas
                                
                                  Than whan a man was sette on oo degre
                                
                                  He lettede nought his felawe for to see
                                  Line 1892 
                                
                                  Estward þer stood a gate of marbel white
                                
                                  Westward right south anoþer in opposite
                                
                                  And schortly to conclude such a place
                                
                                  Was non in erþe as in so litel a space
                                  Line 1896 
                                
                                  ffor in þe lond þer nas no crafty man
                                
                                  That Geometrie or ars metrike can
                                
                                  Ne purtreiour ne keruer of ymages
                                
                                  That Theseus ne gain him mete and wages
                                  Line 1900 
                                
                                  The Teatre for to make and deuyse
                                
                                  And for to don his rite and sacrifise
                                
                                  he estward hath vpon þe gate aboue
                                
                                  In worschip of Venus þe goddesse of loue
                                  Line 1904 
                                
                                  Don make an auter and an oratorie
                                
                                  And of þe westward in memorie [folio 27b] 
                                
                                  Of Mars he maked hath right such anoþer
                                
                                  That coste largely of gold a foþer
                                  Line 1908 
                                
                                  And northward in a toret on þe walle
                                
                                  Of alabaustre whit and reed coralle
                                
                                  An oratori riche for to see
                                
                                  In worschip of Diane of chastite
                                  Line 1912 
                                
                                  hath Theseus don wrought in noble wise
                                
                                  But ȝit hadde I forgetyn to deuyse
                                
                                  þe noble peyntyng and þe purtraitures
                                
                                  The schap þe contienance and þe figures
                                  Line 1916 
                                
                                  That weren in þise oratories þre
                                
                                  fferst in þe temple of venus maist þou se
                                
                                  Wrought in þe walle ful pitous to biholde
                                
                                  The broken sleepes and þe sikes colde
                                  Line 1920 
                                
                                  þe sacrede teeres and þe waymentyng
                                
                                  The fyre strokes of þe desyring
                                
                                  That loues seruantz in þis lijf enduren
                                
                                  The othes þat here couenantz ensuren
                                  Line 1924 
                                
                                  Plesant and hope desir fol-hardynesse

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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 55
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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