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

                                
                                  ¶ This ilke worthy knyght hadde been also
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                                  Somtyme / with the lord of Palatye
                                
                                  Agayn another hethen in Turkye
                                
                                  And euere moore / he hadde a souereyn prys
                                
                                  And thogh þat he weere worthy / he was wys
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                                  And of his poort as meke / as is a mayde
                                
                                  Ne neuere yet no vileynye he sayde
                                
                                  In al his lyf vn-to no manere wight
                                
                                  He was a verray perfit gentil knyght
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                                  But for to tellen yow / of his array [folio 3a] 
                                
                                  Hise hors weere goode / but he ne was nat gay
                                
                                  Of ffustian / he wered a gypon
                                
                                  Al bismotered / with his haubergeon
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                                  ffor he was laate / comen from his viage
                                
                                  And wente / for to doon his pilgrymage
                                
                                  ¶ With hym / ther was his sone a yong Squyer [Squyer.] 
                                
                                  A louere / and a lusty Bachiler
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                                  With lokkes crulle / as they weere leyd in presse
                                
                                  Of .xx. yeer / he was of age I gesse
                                
                                  Of his stature / he was of euene lengthe
                                
                                  And wonderly delyuere / and of greet strengthe
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                                  And he hadde been som tyme / in chiuachye
                                
                                  In fflaundres / in Artoys / and Picardye
                                
                                  And born hym wel / as in so litel space
                                
                                  In hope / to stonden / in his lady grace
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                                  ¶ Embrouded was he / as it weere a meede
                                
                                  Al ful of fresshe floures / white and reede
                                
                                  Syngynge he was / or floytynge al the day
                                
                                  He was as fressh / as is the Monthe of May
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                                  Short was his gowne / with sleues / longe & wyde
                                
                                  Wel koude he sitte on hors / and faire ryde
                                
                                  He koude songes wel make / and endite
                                
                                  Iuste and eek daunce / and wel portreye and write
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                                  So hoote he loued / that by nyghtertale
                                
                                  He slepte namoore / than dooth a nyghtyngale
                                
                                  Curteys he was / lowely / and seruysable

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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 3
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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