The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 486] 
                                  
                                  But naþeles somme seyde þat it was
                                
                                  Wonder to maken of fern aisshen glas
                                
                                  And ȝit is glas not lik aisshen of fern
                                
                                  But for þey han knowen it so fern
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                                  Therfore ceseþ here Ianglyng and here wonder
                                
                                  As sore wondren some on cause of þonder
                                
                                  On ebbe and flood on gossomer and on myst /
                                
                                  And alle þing til þe cause is wist [folio 94a] 
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                                  Thus Ianglen þei and demen and deuyse
                                
                                  Til þat þe king gan fro his bord arise
                                
                                  ¶ Phebus haþ laft þe angle meridional
                                
                                  And ȝit ascendyng was þe best roial
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                                  The gentil leon wiþ his Aldrian
                                
                                  Whan þat þis Tartre kyng Kambynskan
                                
                                  Ros from his bord ther as he sat ful hye
                                
                                  Biforn him goþ þe lowde menstralcie /
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                                  Til he com to his chambre of paramentz
                                
                                  Ther as þey sownen diuerse instrumentz
                                
                                  That is lik an heuene for to heere /
                                
                                  Now dauncen lusty venus children deere
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                                  ffor in þe fisshe hir lady sat ful hye [Piscis] 
                                
                                  And lokeþ on hem with a freendy yhe
                                
                                  This noble king is set vp on his troone
                                
                                  This straunge knight is fet to him ful sone /
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                                  And on þe daunce he goþ with Canacee
                                
                                  here is þe reuel and þe Iolite
                                
                                  That is nat able a dul man to deuyse /
                                
                                  he moste han knowe loue and his seruise /
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                                  And ben a festlich man as freisch as may
                                
                                  That scholde ȝow deuisen such array
                                
                                  who couþe telle yow þe forme of daunces
                                
                                  So vncouthe and such freissche continaunces
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                                  Swich subtile lokynges and dissimulynges
                                
                                  ffor drede of Ialouseye mennes aperceyuynges
                                
                                  Noman but lancelet and he is deed
                                
                                  Therfore I passe ouer al þis lustyhed

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 201
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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