No Fear Literature: The Canterbury Tales: The Knight’s Tale, Part Four Page 14

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Tho cam this woful Theban Palamoun, With flotery berd, and ruggy asshy heres, In clothes blake, y-dropped al with teres; And, passing othere of weping, Emelye, The rewfulleste of al the companye. In as muche as the service sholde be The more noble and riche in his degree, Duk Theseus leet forth three stedes bringe, That trapped were in steel al gliteringe, And covered with the armes of daun Arcite. Upon thise stedes, that weren grete and whyte, Ther seten folk, of which oon bar his sheeld, Another his spere up in his hondes heeld; The thridde bar with him his bowe Turkeys, Of brend gold was the cas, and eek the harneys; And riden forth a pas with sorweful chere Toward the grove, as ye shul after here. The nobleste of the Grekes that ther were Upon hir shuldres carieden the bere, With slakke pas, and eyen rede and wete, Thurgh-out the citee, by the maister-strete, That sprad was al with blak, and wonder hye Right of the same is al the strete y-wrye. Upon the right hond wente old Egeus, And on that other syde duk Theseus, With vessels in hir hand of gold ful fyn, Al ful of hony, milk, and blood, and wyn; Eek Palamon, with ful greet companye; And after that cam woful Emelye, With fyr in honde, as was that tyme the gyse, To do thoffice of funeral servyse.

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