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

                                
                                  This ilke worþi knyhte hade bene also
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                                  Some tim wiþe þe lorde of Palatye
                                
                                  Aȝeine anoþer heiþen in Turkye
                                
                                  And euer more he had a souereine prise
                                
                                  And þoughe þat he was worþi he was wise
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                                  And of his porte as meke as is a maide
                                
                                  He neuer ȝit no velany seide
                                
                                  In al his life til no maner wyght
                                
                                  He was a verrey perfite gentil knyht
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                                  ffor to tel ȝowe of his araye
                                
                                  His hors was goode bot he was nouhte gaye
                                
                                  Off ffustion he werede a Gepon
                                
                                  All be-smoterde wiþ his haburgen.
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                                  ffor he was late come fro his viage
                                
                                  And went for to done his Pilgrimage
                                
                                  Wiþ hime þare was his sonne a ȝonge swiere
                                
                                  A louyer and a lusti bachellere
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                                  Wiþ lokkes crulle as þei were leide in presse
                                
                                  Of .xx. ȝeres of age he was .I. gesse.
                                
                                  Of his stature he was of euen lengeþe
                                
                                  And wonderly deliuer. and grete of strenkeþe
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                                  And he had be sume time in cheualrie [folio 3a] 
                                
                                  In fflandres in Artoys and in Pykardie
                                
                                  And borne him wele as of so litel space
                                
                                  In hope to stonden in his lady grace
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                                  Embrowded was he as it were a mede
                                
                                  Al ful of frissche flowres white and rede
                                
                                  Singeinge he was or flowteinge al þe daie
                                
                                  He was al so fresche as is þe moneþ of maie.
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                                  Schort was his goune with sleues longe and wide
                                
                                  Wele couþe he sitte on an horse and faire ride
                                
                                  He couþe songes make and wele endite
                                
                                  Iuste and eke daunce and wele purtreie and write
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                                  So hote he loued þat be nyghter tale
                                
                                  He slepete no more þan doþe þe nyhtegale
                                
                                  Corteis he was lowly and seruisable

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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 3
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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