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

                                
                                     [6-text p 487] 
                                  
                                  I say nomore but in þis Iolynesse
                                
                                  I lete hem til men to soper hem dresse
                                
                                  The stiward bit spices for to hye
                                
                                  And eek þe wyn in al þis melodye
                                  Line 292 
                                
                                  The vssheres and þe squyers ben y-gon
                                
                                  The spices and þe wyn is come anon
                                
                                  They eete and dronke and whan þis hadde an ende
                                
                                  vnto þe temple as resoun was þey wende [folio 94b] 
                                
                                  ¶ The seruise doon. þey soupen al by day
                                
                                  What needeþ you rehersen here aray
                                
                                  Ech man woot wel þat at/ a kinges feste
                                
                                  haþ plente to þe meste and to þe leste
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                                  And deyntees mo þan ben in my knowyng
                                
                                  And after souper goþ þis noble king
                                
                                  To seen þis hors of bras wiþ al a route
                                
                                  Of lordes and of ladyes him aboute
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                                  Swich wondryng was þer on þis hors of bras
                                
                                  That siþþen þe grete seege of Troye was
                                
                                  Ther as men wondren on an hors also
                                
                                  Ne was þer swich a wondryng as was þo /
                                  Line 308 
                                
                                  But finally þe king askeþ þe knight
                                
                                  The vertue of þis courser and þe might
                                
                                  And preyde him to telle his gouernance
                                
                                  The hors anon bigan to trippe and daunce
                                  Line 312 
                                
                                  Whan þat þis knight layde hond vpon his reyne /
                                
                                  And seyde sire þer is namore to seyne
                                
                                  But whan þou list to ryden eny where
                                
                                  ye moote trille a pyn stant in his eere
                                  Line 316 
                                
                                  which I schal telle you bitwen vs tuo /
                                
                                  ye moot nempne him to what place also
                                
                                  Or to what Contre þat yow list to ryde
                                
                                  And whan ye come þer as yow list tabyde
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                                  Bid him descende and trille anoþer pyn
                                
                                  ffor þer-in liþ þeffect of al þat gyn
                                
                                  And wole doun descende and don your wille
                                
                                  And in þat place he wol abyde stille

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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 202
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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