The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.

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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,

1868-1879.

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"The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AGZ8232.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

Pages

[Peter of Cyprus.]

                  
                    Oworthy Petro / kyng of Cipre also [¶ De Petro Rege de Cipro] 
                  
                    That Alisandre wan / by heigh maistrie
                  
                    fful many an hethen / wroghtestow ful wo
                  
                    Of which / thyne owene liges hadde envie
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                    And for no thyng but for thy Chiualrie
                  
                    They in thy bed / han slayn thee by the morwe
                  
                    Thus kan ffortune / hir wheel gouerne and gye
                  
                    And out of Ioye / brynge men to sorwe
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