The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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                                    Lordyngis ensaumple hereby may ȝe take.
                                  
                                    How that in lordschepe is no sekyrnesse.
                                  
                                    For whan fortune wele a man forsake.
                                  
                                    Sche beryth a-wey his regne & hys rychesse.
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                                    And ek hise frendis bothe moore & lasse.
                                  
                                    For what that hath frendis thourr fortune.
                                  
                                    Mishap wele make hem enemyis I gesse.
                                  
                                    This prouerbe is ful soth & ful comune.
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[Zenobia.]

                                    
                                      ¶ Cenobia of palimerye queene [¶ Cenobia] 
                                    
                                      As wrytyn percyens of hire noblesse
                                    
                                      So worthi was in armys & so keene
                                    
                                      That no whit passede hire in hardynesse
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                                      Ne in lynage nor othir gentillesse
                                    
                                      Of kyngis blod of perse is sche dessendid
                                    
                                      I seye that sche hadde not mooste fayrenesse [folio 356a] 
                                    
                                      But of hire schap sche myȝte nat been a-mendid.
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                                      From hire childhod / I fynde that sche fledde
                                    
                                      Offise of wemen & to wode sche wente
                                    
                                      And manye a wylde hertis blood sche schedde
                                    
                                      With arwis broode that sche to hym sente
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                                      Sche was so swift that sche anoon hem hente
                                    
                                      And whan that sche was eldere sche wolde kylle
                                    
                                      Leonys lebardis & beris al to-rente
                                    
                                      And in hire armys wilde hem at hire wille
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                                      Sche durste wilde beestis denys seeke
                                    
                                      And rennyn in the mounteigny[s] al be nyght
                                    
                                      And slepyn vndyr the busch / & sche coude ek
                                    
                                      Wrastellyn by verray forse & verray myght
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                                      With any ȝong man were he neuere so wight
                                    
                                      There myghte no thyng in hire armys stonde
                                    
                                      Sche kepte hire maydynheed from euery wyght
                                    
                                      To no man degnede hire for to been bonde

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 482
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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