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

                                
                                  The chambres and the stables / weeren wyde
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                                  And wel we weeren esed / at the beste
                                
                                  And shortly whan the sonne was to reste
                                
                                  So hadde I spoken with hem euerichoon
                                
                                  That I was of hir felaweshipe anoon
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                                  And maade forward / erly for to ryse [folio 2b] 
                                
                                  To take oure wey / ther as .I. yow deuyse
                                
                                  ¶ But nathelees / while .I. haue tyme and space
                                
                                  Er that I ferther / in this tale pace
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                                  Me thynketh it acordant to resoun
                                
                                  To telle yow / al the condicioun
                                
                                  Of eech of hem / so as it seemed me
                                
                                  And whiche they weere / and of what degree
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                                  And eek in what array / þat they weere Inne
                                
                                  And at a knyght thanne wol I first bigynne
                                
                                  ¶ A knyght ther was / and that a worthy man [Knyght/] 
                                
                                  That fro the tyme / þat he first bigan
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                                  To ryden out he loued chiualrye
                                
                                  Trouthe and honour / fredom and curteisye
                                
                                  fful worthy was he / in his lordes werre
                                
                                  And ther to hadde he ryden / no man ferre
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                                  As wel in cristendom / as hethenesse
                                
                                  And euere honured / for his worthynesse
                                
                                  ¶ At Alisaundre he was / whan it was wonne
                                
                                  fful ofte tyme / he hadde the bord bigonne
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                                  Abouen alle nacions / in Pruce
                                
                                  In lettow / hadde he reysed / and in Ruce
                                
                                  No cristen man so ofte / of his degree
                                
                                  In Gernade at the seege eek hadde he be
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                                  At Algizir / and ryden in Belmarye
                                
                                  At lyeys was he / and at Satalye
                                
                                  Whan they weere wonne / and in the grete see
                                
                                  At many a noble armee / hadde he bee
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                                  ¶ At mortal batailles / hadde he been fiftene
                                
                                  And foghten for oure feyth / at Tramyssene
                                
                                  In lystes thryes / and ay slayn his foo

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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 2
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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