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

                                
                                  An egle tame as ony lylye whit
                                
                                  An hunderid lordys hadde he with hym there
                                
                                  Alle armede sone / here hedis in al here gere
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                                  fful rychely in alle maner thyngis
                                
                                  ffor trustyth wel that dukis erlys kyngis [VI. 65.] 
                                
                                  Were gaderid in this noble cumpanye
                                
                                  ffor loue & for encres of chiwalrye
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                                  A-bouthe this kyng / there ran on euery part
                                
                                  fful manye a tame / lyoun & lebard
                                
                                  And in this wise / these lordis alle & some
                                
                                  Ben on the soneday / to the sete come
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                                  Aboute prime & in the toun a-light [folio 162a] 
                                
                                  This thesyus this deuk this worthi knyght [VI. 65.] 
                                
                                  Whanne he hadde brouȝt hem in-to hese cete
                                
                                  And innede hem / euerych at hese degre
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                                  He festith hem / & doth so gret labour
                                
                                  To esyn hem / & don hem alle honour
                                
                                  That ȝit men wenyn / that no mannys wit
                                
                                  Of non estat / ne coude amendyn it
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                                  The menstralcye / the seruyse at the feste [VI. 69-70.] 
                                
                                  The grete ȝiftys to the meste & leste
                                
                                  The ryche aray of thesyus palays
                                
                                  Ne ho sat ferst or last vp-on the deys
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                                  What ladyis fayrest ben or best daunsynge
                                
                                  Or whiche of hem can daunsyn best or synge [VI. 70.] 
                                
                                  Ne who most felyngely / spekyth of loue
                                
                                  What haukys syttyn on the perche a-boue [VI. 8.] 
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                                  What houndys liggyn in the flor adoun
                                
                                  Of al this make I now no mencyoun
                                
                                  But al theffect that þynkyth me the beste
                                
                                  Now comyth the poynt / & herkenyth ȝif ȝow lyste
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                                  The soneday nyȝt er day be-gan to spynge
                                
                                  Whan palamoun The larke herde synge
                                
                                  Al-þey it were nought / day be ourys to [palamun to venus] 
                                
                                  Ȝit song the larke / & palamoun also
                                
                                  With holy herte & with an hey corage

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

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