The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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¶ Arriued bene þis cresten folk to londe In Surry wiþþe a grete solempne route And hastely þis Souldan sent his sonde ffirst to his Moder and al þe regne aboute Line 389 And seide his wif was commen oute of doute And praide hir for to riden aȝein þe qwene The honoure of his regne to suteigne Line 392
¶ Grete was þe pres and riche was þe raie Of Surrys and Romeyns mette .I.-fere The Moder of þe souldan riche and gaie Reseiueþ hire wiþ also glad a chere Line 396 As any moder myht hire douhter dere And to þe next Cite þere beside A soft pas solempnyeli þei ride Line 399
¶ Nouht trowe .I. þe triumphe of Iulius Of whiche þat lukan maade suche a boste Was Roialer ne more corious [folio 70a] Than was þassemble of þis blisful oste Line 403 Bot þis Scorpion þis wikked goste This Sauldanesse for al hir flateringe Kast vnder þis mortali to stinge Line 406
¶ The Souldan comeþ himself sone after þis So Roialy þat wonder is to tel He welcomeþ hire wiþ al Ioy and blis And þus in merþe and Ioye .I. lete hem duel Line 410
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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