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 ...

                                
                                  ¶ What shulde I make / a lengere tale of this
                                
                                  vn-to his brothers bed / he comen is
                                
                                  And swich confort / he ȝaf him for to gon
                                
                                  To Orliens / that he vp stirte a-noon
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                                  And on his wey forthward / thanne is he fare
                                
                                  In hope for to ben lissed / of his care
                                
                                  ¶ Whan they were come / almoost to that Citee
                                
                                  But if it were / a two forlong or three
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                                  A ȝonge Clerk romyng / by him self / they mette
                                
                                  Which that in latyn / thriftily hem grette
                                
                                  And after that he seide / a wonder thyng
                                
                                  I knowe quod he the cause / of ȝoure comyng
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                                  And er they ferthere / any foote wente
                                
                                  he told hem al that was / in here entente
                                
                                  ¶ This Britoun Clerk / him asked of felawes
                                
                                  The which that he had knowe / in olde dawes
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                                  And he answered him / that they deede were
                                
                                  ffor which he wep ful ofte / many a teere
                                
                                  Doun of his hors / Aurelius light a-noon
                                
                                  And with this Magicien / forth he is goon
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                                  hom to his hous / and maden hem wel att ese
                                
                                  hem lakked no vitaille / that myght hem plese
                                
                                  So wel arrayed hous / as there was oon
                                
                                  Aurelius in his lyf / saw neuere noon
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                                  he shewed him / er he wente to soupere
                                
                                  fforestes Parkes / ful of wylde dere
                                
                                  There saw he hertes / with here hornes heye
                                
                                  The grettest / that euere was seyn / with eye
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                                  he saw of hem / an hundred slayn with houndes
                                
                                  And some with arwes blede / of bittere woundes
                                
                                  ¶ he saw whan voided were / the wilde deere
                                
                                  Theise faucons / vp-on a fair Ryuere
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                                  That with here haukes / han the heroun slayn
                                
                                  Tho saw he knyghtes / Iustyng in a pleyn
                                
                                  And after this / he dide him swich plesaunce
                                
                                  That he him shewed / his lady on a daunce

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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 346
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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