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

                                
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                                  ffor he hadde founde a corn / lay in the yerd
                                
                                  Real he was / he was namoore aferd
                                
                                  He fethered Pertelote / twenty tyme [folio 104a] 
                                
                                  And trad as ofte / er it was pryme
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                                  He looketh / as it were a grym leoun
                                
                                  And on hise toos / he rometh vp and doun
                                
                                  Hym deyned nat/ to sette his foot to grounde
                                
                                  And chukketh / whan he hath a corn yfounde
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                                  And to hym rennen thanne / hise wyues alle
                                
                                  Thus real / as a Prince is in his halle
                                
                                  Leue I this Chauntecler / in his pasture
                                
                                  And after / wol I telle his auenture
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                                  ¶ Whan that the Monthe / in which the world bigan
                                
                                  That highte March / whan god first maked man
                                
                                  Was complet and passed were also
                                
                                  Syn March bigan / 30. dayes and two
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                                  Bifel / þat Chauntecler / in al his pryde
                                
                                  Hise seuene wyues / walkyng him bisyde
                                
                                  Caste vp hise eyen / to the brighte sonne
                                
                                  That in the signe of Taurus / hadde yronne
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                                  xx. degrees and oon /· and som what moore
                                
                                  And knew by kynde / and by noon oother loore
                                
                                  That it was pryme / and krew with blisful steuene
                                
                                  The sonne he seyde / is clomben vp on heuene
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                                  40. degrees and oon / and moore ywis
                                
                                  Madame Pertelote / my worldes blys
                                
                                  Herkneth thyse blisful bryddes / how they synge
                                
                                  And se the fresshe floures / how they sprynge
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                                  fful is myn herte / of reuel and solas
                                
                                  But sodeynly / hym fil a sorweful cas
                                
                                  ffor euere the latter ende of ioye / is wo
                                
                                  God woot þat worldly ioye / is soone ago
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                                  And if a Rethor / koude faire endite
                                
                                  He in a Cronycle / saufly myghte it write
                                
                                  As for a souereyn notabilitee [Petrus Comestor] 
                                
                                  Now euery wys man / lat hym herkne me

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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 237
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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