The Knight's Tale
Folio 28r
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Whan þt Diane / agreued was with here
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Was turned / fro a womman / til a Bere
And after was she maad / the lode sterre
Thus was it peynted / I kan seye yow no ferre
Hir sone is eek a sterre / as men may see
Ther saw I Dane / yturned to a tree
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I mene nat / the goddesse Diane
But Penneus doghter / which þt highte Dane
¶ Ther saw I Attheon / an hert ymaked
For vengeaunce / þt he saw Diane al naked
I seigh / how þt hise houndes haue hym caught
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And freten hym / for þt they knewe hym naught
¶ Yet peynted was / a litel ferther moor
How Atthalante / hunted the wilde boor
And Meleagree / and many another mo
For which Diane / wroghte hym care and wo
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Ther saw I. many another wonder storie
The whiche / me list nat drawen to memorie
¶ This goddesse on hert ful hye seet
With smale houndes / al aboute hir feet
And vnder nethe hir feet. she hadde a moone
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Wexinge it was / and sholde wanye soone
In gaude grene / hir statue yclothed was
With bowe in honde / and arwes in a cas
Hir eyen caste she / ful lowe adown
Ther Pluto / hath his dirke Regioun
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A womman trauailyng was hir biforn
But for hir child / so longe was vnborn
Ful pitously / lucina gan she calle
And seyde help / for thow mayst best of alle
Wel koude he peynte lyfly / that it wroghte
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With many a floryn / he the hewes boghte
¶ Now been thise listes maad / and Theseus
That at his grete cost arrayed thus
The temples / and the Theatre euery del
Whan it was doon / hym liked wonder wel
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But stynte I wole / of Theseus alite
And speke of Palamon / and of Arcite
¶ The day approcheth / of hir retournynge
That euerich / sholde an hundred knyghtes brynge