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

                                
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                                  If it so be / þat I haue it in mynde
                                
                                  ¶ He seyde / the kyng of Arabe and of Inde
                                
                                  My lige lord / on this solempne day
                                
                                  Saleweth yow / as he best kan and may
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                                  And sendeth yow / in honour of youre feeste
                                
                                  By me / that am al redy at youre heeste
                                
                                  This steede of bras / that esily and weel [¶ Of the vertu/ of the steede of bras] 
                                
                                  Kan in the space / of o day natureel
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                                  This is to seyn / in foure and twenty houres
                                
                                  Wher so yow lyst in droghte or elles shoures
                                
                                  Beren youre body / in to euery place
                                
                                  To which youre herte / wiIneth for to pace
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                                  With outen wem of yow / thurgh foul or fair
                                
                                  Or if yow lyst to fleen / as hye in the Air
                                
                                  As dooth an Egle / whan þat hym list to soore
                                
                                  This same steede / shal bere yow euere moore
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                                  With outen harm / til ye be ther yow leste
                                
                                  Though that ye slepen / on his bak or reste
                                
                                  And turne ayeyn / with writhyng of a pyn
                                
                                  He þat it wroghte / koude ful many a gyn
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                                  He wayted / many a constellacion
                                
                                  Er he / had doon / this operacion
                                
                                  And knew ful many a seel / and many a bond
                                
                                  ¶ This mirrour eek / þat I haue in myn hond [¶ Of the vertu of the Mirour] 
                                
                                  Hath swich a myght/ þat men may in it see
                                
                                  Whan ther shal fallen / any Aduersitee
                                
                                  Vn to youre regne / or to youre self also
                                
                                  And openly / who is youre freend or foo
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                                  ¶ And ouer al this / if any lady bright
                                
                                  Hath set hire herte / in any maner wight
                                
                                  If he be fals / she shal his treson see
                                
                                  His newe loue / and al his subtiltee
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                                  So openly / þat ther shal no thyng hyde
                                
                                  Wherfore / ageyn this lusty someres tyde
                                
                                  This Mirour/ and this ryng þat ye may see
                                
                                  He hath sent vn to my lady Canacee

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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 316
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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