The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  Whan þat here husbondes / ben fro hem a-go
                                
                                  That for the more part / they sorwen so
                                  Line 2824 
                                
                                  Or ellis fallen / in swich a maladie
                                
                                  That at the last / certeynly they deye
                                
                                  ¶ . Infinite ben the sorwes / and the teeres
                                
                                  Of olde folk / and folk of tendre ȝeres
                                  Line 2828 
                                
                                  In al the Toun / for the deth / of this Theban
                                
                                  ffor him þere wepeth / bothe child & man
                                
                                  So gret a wepyng / was þere non certeyn
                                
                                  Whan Ector was brought / al fressh I-slayn
                                  Line 2832 
                                
                                  To Troye / allas the pyte that was there
                                
                                  Cracchyng of chekes / rendyng eke of here
                                
                                  Why woldest þou be ded / theise wommen crye
                                
                                  And haddest gold I-now / and Emelye [folio 36a] 
                                  Line 2836 
                                
                                  ¶ . No man myght gladen / Theseus
                                
                                  Sauyng his old fader / Egeus
                                
                                  That knew this worldlis / transmutacion
                                
                                  As he had seyn it chaunge / boþe vp & doun
                                  Line 2840 
                                
                                  Ioye after woo / and woo after gladnes
                                
                                  And shewed him ensample / and lyknes
                                
                                  Right as there deyed neuere man / quod he [¶ Nota]  [¶ Argumentum] 
                                
                                  That he ne loued in erthe / in som degre
                                
                                  Right so þere lyued neuere man / he seide
                                  Line 2845 
                                
                                  In al this world / þat somtyme he ne deyede
                                
                                  This world nys but a thurgh-feire / ful of woo
                                
                                  And we ben pilgrimes / passyng to and froo
                                  Line 2848 
                                
                                  Deth is an ende / of euery worldly sore
                                
                                  And ouer al this / ȝet seide he meche more
                                
                                  To this effect / ful wysly to enhorte
                                
                                  The peeple / þat they shuld him / recomforte
                                  Line 2852 
                                
                                  ¶ . Duke Theseus / with al his bysy cure
                                
                                  Oast [[for Cast]]  now where / that the sepulture
                                
                                  Of goode Arcite / may best I-maked be
                                
                                  And eke most honourable / in his degre
                                  Line 2856 
                                
                                  And at the last / he tok conclusion
                                
                                  That there as first / Arcite & Palamon

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 81
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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