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 ...

                                
                                  Vp springen speres / xxti fote on height
                                
                                  Ouȝt gon the swerdes / as the siluer bright
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                                  The helmes they to-hewen / and to-shrede
                                
                                  Ouȝt brest the blod / with sterne stremes rede
                                
                                  with myghty maces / to bons they / to-brest
                                
                                  he þorugh the thikkest / of the throng gan threst
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                                  There stomblen steedes strong / & doun goth al
                                
                                  He rolleth vnder fote / as doth a bal
                                
                                  He foyneth on his fet / with his tronchon
                                
                                  And he him hurteth / with his hors a-doun
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                                  he thurgh the body is hurt / and sithen take
                                
                                  Maugre his hede / and brouȝt vn-to the stake
                                
                                  As forward was / and þere he must a-byde
                                
                                  A-nother lad is / on þat other syde
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                                  And som tyme / doth Theseus / to reste
                                
                                  hem / to refresshe / & drynken if hem liste
                                
                                  ¶ . fful ofte a day / han theise Thebans two
                                
                                  To-geder mette / and wrouȝt his felawe woo
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                                  Vnhorsed hath ech other / of hem tweye
                                
                                  There nas no Tygre / in the vale of Galgopheye
                                
                                  whan þat hire whelp were stole / whan it is lite
                                
                                  So cruel on the hunte / as is Arcite
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                                  ffor ielous hert / vp-on this Palamon
                                
                                  Ne in belmarie / there nys no fel lyon
                                
                                  That hunted is / or for his honger wood
                                
                                  Ne of his pray / desireth so the blod
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                                  As Palamon / to slen his foo Arcite
                                
                                  The ielous strokes / on here helmes byte
                                
                                  Ouȝt ronneth blod / on both here sides rede
                                
                                  ¶ . Somtyme an ende þere is / of euery dede
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                                  ffor er the sonne / vn-to the rest went
                                
                                  The strong kyng / Emetrius / gan hent
                                
                                  This Palamon / as he faught with Arcite
                                
                                  And mad his swerd depe / in his flessh to byte
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                                  And by the force of xxti / is he take
                                
                                  vnȝolden / and I-drawen / vn-to the stake

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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 75
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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