No Fear Literature: The Canterbury Tales: The Knight’s Tale The Knight’s Tale, Part Four Page 3

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The voys of peple touchede the hevene, So loude cryden they with mery stevene: ‘God save swich a lord, that is so good, He wilneth no destruccioun of blood!’ Up goon the trompes and the melodye. And to the listes rit the companye By ordinaunce, thurgh-out the citee large, Hanged with cloth of gold, and nat with sarge.	The voys of peple touchede the hevene, So loude cryden they with mery stevene: ‘God save swich a lord, that is so good, He wilneth no destruccioun of blood!’ Up goon the trompes and the melodye. And to the listes rit the companye By ordinaunce, thurgh-out the citee large, Hanged with cloth of gold, and nat with sarge.
Ful lyk a lord this noble duk gan ryde, Thise two Thebanes upon either syde; And after rood the quene, and Emelye, And after that another companye Of oon and other, after hir degree. And thus they passen thurgh-out the citee, And to the listes come they by tyme. It nas not of the day yet fully pryme, Whan set was Theseus ful riche and hye, Ipolita the quene and Emelye, And other ladies in degrees aboute. Unto the seetes preesseth al the route. And west-ward, thurgh the gates under Marte, Arcite, and eek the hundred of his parte, With baner reed is entred right anon; And in that selve moment Palamon Is under Venus, est-ward in the place, With baner whyt, and hardy chere and face. In al the world, to seken up and doun, So even with-outen variacioun, Ther nere swiche companyes tweye. For ther nas noon so wys that coude seye, That any hadde of other avauntage Of worthinesse, ne of estaat, ne age, So even were they chosen, for to gesse. And in two renges faire they hem dresse.	Ful lyk a lord this noble duk gan ryde, Thise two Thebanes upon either syde; And after rood the quene, and Emelye, And after that another companye Of oon and other, after hir degree. And thus they passen thurgh-out the citee, And to the listes come they by tyme. It nas not of the day yet fully pryme, Whan set was Theseus ful riche and hye, Ipolita the quene and Emelye, And other ladies in degrees aboute. Unto the seetes preesseth al the route. And west-ward, thurgh the gates under Marte, Arcite, and eek the hundred of his parte, With baner reed is entred right anon; And in that selve moment Palamon Is under Venus, est-ward in the place, With baner whyt, and hardy chere and face. In al the world, to seken up and doun, So even with-outen variacioun, Ther nere swiche companyes tweye. For ther nas noon so wys that coude seye, That any hadde of other avauntage Of worthinesse, ne of estaat, ne age, So even were they chosen, for to gesse. And in two renges faire they hem dresse.

Original Text	Modern Text
The voys of peple touchede the hevene, So loude cryden they with mery stevene: ‘God save swich a lord, that is so good, He wilneth no destruccioun of blood!’ Up goon the trompes and the melodye. And to the listes rit the companye By ordinaunce, thurgh-out the citee large, Hanged with cloth of gold, and nat with sarge.	The voys of peple touchede the hevene, So loude cryden they with mery stevene: ‘God save swich a lord, that is so good, He wilneth no destruccioun of blood!’ Up goon the trompes and the melodye. And to the listes rit the companye By ordinaunce, thurgh-out the citee large, Hanged with cloth of gold, and nat with sarge.
Ful lyk a lord this noble duk gan ryde, Thise two Thebanes upon either syde; And after rood the quene, and Emelye, And after that another companye Of oon and other, after hir degree. And thus they passen thurgh-out the citee, And to the listes come they by tyme. It nas not of the day yet fully pryme, Whan set was Theseus ful riche and hye, Ipolita the quene and Emelye, And other ladies in degrees aboute. Unto the seetes preesseth al the route. And west-ward, thurgh the gates under Marte, Arcite, and eek the hundred of his parte, With baner reed is entred right anon; And in that selve moment Palamon Is under Venus, est-ward in the place, With baner whyt, and hardy chere and face. In al the world, to seken up and doun, So even with-outen variacioun, Ther nere swiche companyes tweye. For ther nas noon so wys that coude seye, That any hadde of other avauntage Of worthinesse, ne of estaat, ne age, So even were they chosen, for to gesse. And in two renges faire they hem dresse.	Ful lyk a lord this noble duk gan ryde, Thise two Thebanes upon either syde; And after rood the quene, and Emelye, And after that another companye Of oon and other, after hir degree. And thus they passen thurgh-out the citee, And to the listes come they by tyme. It nas not of the day yet fully pryme, Whan set was Theseus ful riche and hye, Ipolita the quene and Emelye, And other ladies in degrees aboute. Unto the seetes preesseth al the route. And west-ward, thurgh the gates under Marte, Arcite, and eek the hundred of his parte, With baner reed is entred right anon; And in that selve moment Palamon Is under Venus, est-ward in the place, With baner whyt, and hardy chere and face. In al the world, to seken up and doun, So even with-outen variacioun, Ther nere swiche companyes tweye. For ther nas noon so wys that coude seye, That any hadde of other avauntage Of worthinesse, ne of estaat, ne age, So even were they chosen, for to gesse. And in two renges faire they hem dresse.