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

He hadde a Berys Skyn / colblak / for old His longe heer / was kembed bihynde his bak As any Rauenes fetthere / it shoon for blak 2144 A wrethe of gold / greet of huge wighte Vp on his heed / and ful of stones brighte Of fyne Rubyes / and of dyamauntz Aboute his Chaar / they wente white Alauntz 2148 Twenty and mo / as grete as any Steer To hunten at the leon / and the deer And folwed hym / with mosel faste ybounde Colered of gold / and turrettes filed rounde 2152 An hundred lordes / hadde he in his route Armed ful wel / with hertes stierne and stoute ¶ With Arcita / in stories as men fynde The grete Emetrius / the kyng of Inde 2156 Vp on a Steede bay / trapped in steel Couered in a clooth of gold / dyapred weel Cam ridynge / lyk the god of Armes Mars His cote armure / was of clooth of Tars 2160 Couched with perlys white / and rounde and grete His sadel was / of brend gold newe ybete A Mantelet vp on his shulder hangynge Bretful of Rubies reede / as fyr sparklynge 2164 His crispe heer / lyk rynges was yronne And that was yelow / and glitred as the sonne His nose was heigh / hise eyen bright Citryn His lyppes rounde / his colour was sangwyn 2168 A fewe fraknes / in his face yspreynd Bitwixen yelow / and som del blak ymeynd And as a leon / he his lookyng caste Of .xxv. yeer / his age I caste 2172 His beerd / was wel bigonne for to sprynge His voys / was as a trompe thonderynge Vp on his heed / he wered of laurer grene A gerland fressh / and lusty for to seene 2176 Vp on his hand / he bar for his deduyt [folio 29b]
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The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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