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

                                
                                  The Chambres and stables weren wyde
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                                  And wele weren esede at þe beste
                                
                                  An schortly whan þe son was to reste
                                
                                  So had .I. spoken with hem euerychone
                                
                                  þat .I. was of her felawschep anone
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                                  And maade forwarde erly for to rise
                                
                                  To take owre waie þare as .I. ȝowe deuise
                                
                                  Bot naþeles while .I. haue time and space
                                
                                  Er þat .I. forþer in þis tale pace.
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                                  Me þenkeþ it accordant to resone
                                
                                  To tell ȝowe alle þe condicione
                                
                                  Of iche of hem so as it semed me
                                
                                  And whiche þei were and of whate degre
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                                  And eke in whatte araie þat þei were inne
                                
                                  And att a knyhte þan wold .I. furst be-ginne.
                                
                                  A Knyght þere was and þat a worþi manne [folio 2b] 
                                
                                  That fro þe time þat he first be-ganne
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                                  To ryden owte he loued cheualrie
                                
                                  Treuþe and honoure fredome and curtesie
                                
                                  fful worþi was he in his lordes werre
                                
                                  And þar-to had he riden no man so ferre
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                                  As wele in Cristendom as in heyþennesse
                                
                                  And euere honoured for his worþinesse.
                                
                                  Att Alisander he was whān it was wonne
                                
                                  fful oft time he had þe borde be-gonne
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                                  Aboue al nacions in Pruce
                                
                                  In Lettowe had he reysed and in Ruce
                                
                                  No Cristeneman so oft of his degre
                                
                                  In Gernade att þe sege eke had he be
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                                  Of Algezire and riden had in Belmarye
                                
                                  Att Leyes was he and att Satilye
                                
                                  Whan þei were wonne. and in þe grete see
                                
                                  Att mony a noble Arme had he bee
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                                  Att Mortel Batailles had he be fiftene
                                
                                  And fowhten for owre feiþe att Tramessene.
                                
                                  In listes þries and ay sleyne his foo

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 2
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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