The Knight's Tale
Folio 39r
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And gerlandes hangynge / ful of many a flour
The Mirre / thencens / with al so greet sauour
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Ne how Arcite / lay among al this
Ne what richesse / aboute the body is
Ne how that Emelye / as was the gyse
Putte in the fyr / of funeral seruyse
Ne how she swowned / whan men made the fyr
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Ne what she spak ne what was hir desir
Ne what Iuels / men in the fyr caste
Whan þt the fyr was greet and brente faste
Ne how sōme caste hir sheeld / and sōme hir spere
And of hir vestimentz / whiche þt they were
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And coppes fulle of Milk and wyn and blood
In to the fyr / þt brente as it were wood
Ne how the Grekys / with An huge route
Thries ryden / al the fyr aboute
Vp on the left hand / with a loud shoutynge
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And thries / with hir speres claterynge
And thries / how the ladyes gonne crye
And how þt lad / was homward Emelye
Ne how Arcite / is brent to Asshen colde
Ne how that lychwake / was yholde
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Al thilke nyght ne how the grekys pleye
The wake pleyes / ne kepe I noght to seye
Who wrastleth best naked / with oille enoynt
Ne who þt baar hym best in no disioynt
I wol nat tellen al / how they goon
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Hoom til Atthenes / whan the pleye is doon
But shortly to the poynt than wol I wende
And maken / of my longe tale an ende
¶ By proces / and by lengthe of certeyn yerys
Al stynt is / the moornynge and the terys
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Of Grekys / by oon general assent
Thanne semed me / ther was a parlement
At Atthenes / vp on a certeyn point and caas
Among the whiche pointes / yspoken was
To haue / with certeyn contrees alliance
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And haue fully / of Thebans obeisance
For which / this noble Theseus anon
Leet senden / after gentil Palamon