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 ...

                                
                                  They bar with him / his bowe Turkeys
                                
                                  Of brend gold was the caas / & eke the harneys
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                                  And riden forth a paas / with sorweful chere
                                
                                  Toward the Groue / as ȝe schuln after here
                                
                                  The noblest of the Grekys / that there were
                                
                                  Vp-on here shuldres / carieden the bere
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                                  with slakke paas / and eyen rede and wete
                                
                                  Thorugh-ouȝt the Citee / by the maister strete
                                
                                  That spred was al with blak / and wonder hye
                                
                                  Ryght of the same / is the strete I-wrye
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                                  ¶ . Vp-on the right hand / went old Egeus
                                
                                  And on that other side / Duke Theseus
                                
                                  With vesseles in here handes / of gold ful fyne
                                
                                  Al ful of hony / melk / Blod / and wyne
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                                  Eke Palamon / with ful gret companye
                                
                                  And after þat cam / wooful Emelye
                                
                                  With fir in hand / as was þat tyme the gyse
                                
                                  To do the offise / of ffunerall seruyce
                                  Line 2912 
                                
                                  ¶ . Heigh labour / and gret apparaillyng
                                
                                  Was at the seruice / and the fir makyng
                                
                                  That with his grene top / the heuene laught
                                
                                  And xxti / fadome of brede / the armes straught
                                  Line 2916 
                                
                                  This is to seyn / the bowes were so brode
                                
                                  Of stree first / there was leid mony a lode
                                
                                  ¶ . But how the fire / was maked vp on height
                                
                                  Ne eke the names / how the trees hight
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                                  As Oke fir / Birche / Aspe / Alder / holm / Popler Arbores
                                
                                  Wylew / Elm / Plane / Assh / Box / Chesteyn / lynde / laurer
                                
                                  Mapul / Thorn / Beche / Hasel / Ew / Whippeltre
                                
                                  How they were feld / shal nat be told for me
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                                  ¶ . Ne how the goddes / ronnen vp and doun
                                
                                  Disherited / of here habitacion [[Dd. ends; leaf 37 gone]] 
                                
                                  In which they woneden in rest and pees [Eg. begins, leaf 37 back] 
                                
                                  nymphes fawnes and madrides
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                                  Ne how the bestes and the briddes all
                                
                                  ffledden for ferde whan whan the wode was fall

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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 83
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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