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

[6-text p 486] ¶ But nathelees / somme seiden þat it was Wonder/ to maken / of fern Asshen glas And yet nys glas / nat lyk Asshen of fern But for they han / knowen it so fern Line 256 Therfore / cesseth / hir Ianglyng and hir wonder ¶ As soore wondren somme / on cause of thonder On ebbe / on flood / on gossomer / and on myst And on alle thyng til þat the cause is wyst Line 260 Thus Iangle they / and demen and deuyse Til þat the kyng gan fro the bord aryse
Phebus / hath laft the Angle meridional And yet ascendynge / was the beest roial Line 264 The gentil leon / with his Aldrian [[aldiran later]] Whan þat this Tartre kyng Cambynskan Roos fro his bord / ther that he sat ful hye Toforn hym gooth / the loude Mynstralcye Line 268 Til he cam / to his chambre of parementz Ther as they sownen / diuerse Instrumentz That it is / lyk an heuene for to heere Now dauncen / lusty Venus children deere Line 272 ffor in the fyssh / hir lady sat ful hye And looketh on hem / with a freendly eye ¶ This noble kyng is set vp in his Trone This strange knyght is fet to hym ful soone Line 276 And on the daunce / he gooth with canacce Heere is the reuel / and the Iolitee That is nat able / a dul man to deuyse He moste han knowen / loue and his seruyse Line 280 And been a feestlych man / as fressh as May That sholde yow / deuysen swich array ¶ Who koude telle yow / the forme of daunces So vnkouthe / and so fresshe contenaunces Line 284 Swich subtil lookyng and dissymulynges ffor drede / of Ialouse mennes aperceyuynges? No man but launcelet and he is deed Therfore I passe / of al this lustiheed Line 288
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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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