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

                                
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                                  His voys was murier / than the myrie Orgon
                                
                                  On massedayes / þat in the chirche gon
                                
                                  Wel sikerer / was his crowyng in his logge
                                
                                  Than is a Clokke / or any Abbey Orlogge
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                                  By nature / he knew ech ascencion
                                
                                  Of equinoxial / in thilke town
                                
                                  ffor whan degrees .xv. / were ascended [folio 100a] 
                                
                                  Thanne krew he / þat it myghte nat ben amended
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                                  His komb / was redder / than the fyn coral
                                
                                  And batayled / as it were a Castel wal
                                
                                  His byle was blak and as the Ieet it shoon
                                
                                  Lyk Asure / were hise legges and his toon
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                                  Hise nayles whitter / than the lylye flour
                                
                                  And lyk the burned gold / was his colour
                                
                                  This gentil cok/ hadde in his gouernaunce
                                
                                  Seuene hennes / for to doon al his plesaunce
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                                  Whiche were hise sustres / and his paramours
                                
                                  And wonder lyke to hym / as of colours
                                
                                  Of whiche / the faireste hewed on hire throte
                                
                                  Was clepid / faire damoysele Pertelote
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                                  Curteys she was / discret/ and debonaire
                                
                                  And compaignable / and bar hir self so faire
                                
                                  Syn thilke day / þat she was seuen nyght oold
                                
                                  That trewely / she hath the herte in hoold
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                                  Of Chantecler / loken in euery lyth
                                
                                  He loued hire so / þat wel was hym ther with
                                
                                  But swich a ioye was it to here hem synge
                                
                                  Whan þat / the brighte sonne gan to sprynge
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                                  In swete acord / my leef/ is faren in londe
                                
                                  ffor thilke tyme / as I haue vnderstonde
                                
                                  Beestes / and briddes / kouden speke and synge
                                
                                  And so bifel / þat in a dawenynge
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                                  As Chantecler / among hise wyues alle
                                
                                  Sat on his perche / that was in the halle
                                
                                  And next hym sat this faire Pertelote
                                
                                  This Chantecler / gan gronen in his throte

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 228
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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