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¶ He dide / next his white leere
Of clooth of lake / fyn and cleere
A breech / and eek a sherte
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And next his sherte an Aketon
And ouer that an haubergeon
ffor percynge of his herte
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¶ And ouer that / a fyn hawberk
Was al ywroght of Iewes werk
fful strong it was of plate
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And ouer that his cote Armour
As whit as is / a lilye flour
In which / he wol debate
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¶ His sheeld / was al / of gold so reed
And ther Inne / was a bores heed
A Charbocle bisyde
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And there he swoor / on ale and breed
How þat the geaunt shal be deed
Bityde what bityde
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¶ Hise Iambeux were of quyrboilly
His swerdes shethe of Yuory
His helm of laton bright
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His sadel was of Rewel boon
His brydel / as the sonne shoon
Or as the moone light
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¶ His spere it was / of fyn Ciprees
That bodeth werre / and no thyng pees
The heed / ful sharpe ygrounde
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¶ His steede was / al dappull gray
It gooth an Ambil in the way
fful softely and rounde
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