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

                                
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                                  Myn englissh eek is insufficient
                                
                                  I moste been / a Rethor excellent
                                
                                  That koude hise colours / longynge for that Art
                                
                                  If he / sholde hire discryuen euery part
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                                  I am noon swich / I moot speke as I kan
                                
                                  ¶ And so bifel / that whan this Cambynskan
                                
                                  Hath twenty wynter / born his diademe
                                
                                  As he was wont fro yeer to yeer I deme
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                                  He leet the feeste / of his Natiuitee
                                
                                  Doon cryen / thurgh Sarray his Citee
                                
                                  The last Idus of March / after the yeer
                                
                                  Phebus the sonne / ful ioly was and cleer
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                                  ffor he was / neigh his exaltacion
                                
                                  In Martes face / and in his mansion
                                
                                  In Aries / the colerik/ hoote signe [folio 120a] 
                                
                                  fful lusty was / the weder and benigne
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                                  ffor which the foweles / agayn the sonne sheene
                                
                                  What for the seson / and the yonge grene
                                
                                  fful loude / songen hire affeccions
                                
                                  Hem semed / han geten hem proteccions
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                                  Agayn the swerd of wynter/ keene and coold
                                
                                  ¶ This Cambynskan / of which I haue yow toold
                                
                                  In roial vestiment sit on his deys
                                
                                  With diademe / ful heighe in his paleys
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                                  And halt his feeste so solempne / and so ryche
                                
                                  That in this world / was ther noon it lyche
                                
                                  Of which / if I shal tellen al tharray
                                
                                  Thanne wolde it occupie a someres day
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                                  And eek/ it nedeth nat for to deuyse
                                
                                  At euery cours / the ordre of hire seruyse
                                
                                  I wol nat tellen / of hir strange sewes
                                
                                  Ne of hir swannes / nor of hire heronsewes
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                                  Eek/ in that lond / as tellen knyghtes olde
                                
                                  Ther is som mete / þat is ful deynte holde
                                
                                  That in this lond / men recche of it but smal
                                
                                  Ther nys no man / that may reporten al

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 314
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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