This ilke worþi knight hadde ben also
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Somtyme with þe lord of Palatye
Ageyn anoþer hethene in Turkye
And eueremore he hadde a souereyn prys
And þough he was worþy he was wys
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And of his port as meke as a mayde
he neuer ȝit no vilonye ne sayde
In al his lyf vnto no maner wight
he was a verray perfiȝt gentil knight
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But for to telle ȝou of his array
his hors was good but he ne was nouȝt gay
Of fustyan he wered a Gepoun
Al by smoterud with his haburgeoun
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For he was late comen from his viage [folio 2a]
And wente for to doon his pilgrimage
With him þer was his sone a ȝong squyer
A louyer and a lusty bacheler
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With lokkes crulle as þey were layde in presse
Of twenty ȝeer he was of age I gesse
Of his stature he was of euene lengthe
And wondurly delyuer and gret of strengthe
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And he hadde ben som tyme in Chiuachie
In Flaundres in Artoys and in Picardie
And born him wel as in so litel space
In hope to stonden in his lady grace /
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Embrowdid was he as it were a mede /
Al ful of fresshe floures white and reede
Syngynge he was or flowtynge al þe day
he was as fressh as is the moneth of may
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Schort was his goune with sleeues long and wyde
wel cowde he sitte on hors and wel cowde he ryde
he cowde songes wel make and endite
Iustne and eek daunce and wel purtray and write
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So hote he louede þat by nightertale
he sleep nomore þan doþ a nightyngale
Curteys he was lowly and seruysable
