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

                                
                                  An Egle tame as eny lilie whit
                                
                                  An C. lordes hadde he with him þere
                                
                                  All armed saue her heedes in al here gere
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                                  fful richely in alle maner þinges
                                
                                  ffor trusteþ wel þat Dukes Erles kynges.
                                
                                  Were gadred in þis noble companye
                                
                                  ffor loue and for encrees of chiualrie
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                                  aboute þis king þer ran on euery part
                                
                                  fful many a tame leon and lepart
                                
                                  And in þis wise þise lordes all and some
                                
                                  Ben on þe soneday to þe Cite come
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                                  Aboute prime and in þe toun alighte
                                
                                  This Theseus þis Duk þis worþi knighte
                                
                                  Whan he hadde brought hem in to his Cite
                                
                                  And Inned hem euerich at his degre /
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                                  He festeþ hem and doþ so gret labour
                                
                                  To eesen hem and don hem all honour [folio 31b] 
                                
                                  That yet men weneþ þat no mannes wit
                                
                                  Of non estat ne couþe amenden it /
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                                  The menstralcye þe seruise atte feste
                                
                                  The grete ȝiftes to þe meste and leste
                                
                                  The riche array of Theseus Paleys
                                
                                  Ne who sat ferst ne last vpon þe deys
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                                  What ladies fairest ben or best daunsynge
                                
                                  Or which of hem can best daunsen or synge /
                                
                                  Ne who most felynglik spekeþ of loue
                                
                                  What haukes sitten on þe perche aboue /
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                                  What houndes liggen on þe flor adoun
                                
                                  Of all þis make I now no mencioun
                                
                                  But alle þeffecte þat þinkeþ me þe beste
                                
                                  Now comeþ þe poynt and herkneþ if ȝou lest
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                                  ¶ The sonday night ar day bigan to springe
                                
                                  Whan Palamon þe larke herde synge
                                
                                  Al þough it / nere nought day by houres tuo
                                
                                  Ȝet song þe larke and Palamon right þo
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                                  Wiþ holy herte and with an heigh corage

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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 63
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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