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

                                
                                  An Egle tame / as any lilie whyt
                                
                                  An hundred lordes / hadde he with hym there
                                
                                  Al armed saue hir heddes / in al hir gere
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                                  fful richely / in alle manere thynges
                                
                                  ffor trusteth wel / þat dukes / Erles / kynges
                                
                                  Were gadred / in this noble compaignye
                                
                                  ffor loue / and for encrees of chiualrye
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                                  Aboute this kyng ther ran on euery part
                                
                                  fful many a tame leon and leopart
                                
                                  ¶ And in this wise / thise lordes alle and some
                                
                                  Been on the Sonday / to the Citee come
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                                  Aboute pryme / and in the town alight
                                
                                  ¶ This Theseus / this duc this worthy knyght
                                
                                  Whan he hadde broght hem / in to his Citee
                                
                                  And Inned hem / euerich at his degree
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                                  He festeth hem / and dooth so gret labour
                                
                                  To esen hem / and doon hem al honour
                                
                                  That yet men wenen / þat no mannes wit
                                
                                  Of noon estaat ne koude amenden it/
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                                  ¶ The Mynstralcye / the seruyce / at the feeste
                                
                                  The grete yiftes / to the meeste and leeste
                                
                                  The ryche array / of Theseus Paleys
                                
                                  Ne who sat first or last vp on the deys
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                                  What ladyes fairest been / and best daunsynge
                                
                                  Or which of hem / kan daunse best and synge
                                
                                  Ne who moost feelyngly / speketh of loue
                                
                                  What haukes sitten / on the perche aboue
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                                  What houndes lyggen / on the floor adown
                                
                                  Of al this / make I now no mencioun
                                
                                  But al theffect that thynketh me the beste
                                
                                  Now comth the point and herkneth if yow leste
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                                  ¶ The Sonday nyght er day bigan to sprynge
                                
                                  Whan Palamon / the larke herde synge
                                
                                  Al thogh it nere nat day / by houres two
                                
                                  Yet soong the larke / and Palamon right tho
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                                  With holy herte / and with an heigh corage

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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 63
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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