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

                                
                                  ffor euery wight þat loued chiualrye
                                
                                  And wolde his thankes / han a passant name
                                
                                  Hath prayd / that he myghte been of that game
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                                  And wel was hym / þat ther to chosen was
                                
                                  ffor if ther fille / tomorwe swich a cas
                                
                                  Ye knowen wel / þat euery lusty knyght/
                                
                                  That loueth paramours / and hath his myght
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                                  Were it in Engelond / or ellis where
                                
                                  They wolde hir thankes / wilnen to be there
                                
                                  To fighten for a lady / benedicitee
                                
                                  It were a lusty sighte / for to see
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                                  ¶ And right so / ferden they with Palamon
                                
                                  With hym ther wenten / knyghtes many oon
                                
                                  Som wol ben armed / in an haubergeon
                                
                                  And in a Brestplate / and in a light gypon
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                                  And som wol haue / a piere plates large
                                
                                  And som wol haue / a Pruce sheeld / or a targe
                                
                                  Som wol been armed / on his legges weel
                                
                                  And haue an Ax / and som a Maas of steel
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                                  Ther nys no newe gyse / þat it nas oold
                                
                                  Armed were they / as I haue yow toold
                                
                                  Euerich / after his opinyon
                                
                                  ¶ Ther maystow seen / comynge with Palamon
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                                  Lygurge hym self the grete kyng of Trace
                                
                                  Blak was his beerd / and manly was his face
                                
                                  The cercles of his eyen / in his heed
                                
                                  They gloweden / bitwixen yelow and reed
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                                  And lyk a griffon / loked he aboute
                                
                                  With keempe herys / on his browes stoute
                                
                                  His lymes grete / his brawnes / harde and stronge
                                
                                  Hys shuldres brode / hise armes rounde and longe
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                                  And as the gyse was / in his contree [folio 29a] 
                                
                                  fful hye / vp on a Chaar of gold stood he
                                
                                  With foure white Boles / in the trays
                                
                                  In stide of Cotearmure / ouer his harnays
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                                  With nayles yelwe / and brighte as any gold

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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 61
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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