The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  I wol not tarien ȝou for it is pryme
                                
                                  And for it is no fruyt but los of tyme
                                
                                  vnto my purpos. I wol haue my recours
                                
                                  That so bifelle after þe þridde cours
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                                  whil þat þe kyng sit þus in his nobleye
                                
                                  herkyng his mynstrales her þinges pleye
                                
                                  Byforn him atte boord deliciously
                                
                                  In atte halle dore al sodeynly
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                                  Ther com a knight vpon a steed of bras
                                
                                  And in his hond a brod myrour of glas
                                
                                  Vpon his thomb he had of gold a ryng
                                
                                  And by his side a naked swerd hangyng
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                                  And vp he rideth to þe heyghe bord [folio 150a] 
                                
                                  In al þe halle ne was þer spoke a word
                                
                                  For meruayl of þis knight him to byholde
                                
                                  Ful besily þey wayten ȝong and olde
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                                  This straunge knight þat cam þus sodeynly
                                
                                  Al armed sauf his heed ful richely;
                                
                                  Salued the kyng and queen and lordes alle
                                
                                  By ordre as þey seten in to halle /
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                                  with so heigh reuerens and obseruaunce
                                
                                  As wel in speche as in contynaunce /
                                
                                  That Ewen with his olde curtesye
                                
                                  They he come aȝein out of fayrye
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                                  Ne couþe him nouȝt amende wiþ no word
                                
                                  And after þis biforn þe highe bord
                                
                                  he with a manly vois sayd his message
                                
                                  After þe forme vsed in his langage
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                                  wiþouten vice of sillabil or letter
                                
                                  And for his tale schulde seme þe better
                                
                                  Accordaunt to his wordes was his cheere
                                
                                  As techeth art of speche hem þat it leere
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                                  Al be it þat I can nat sowne his style
                                
                                  Ne can nat clymben ouer so heigh a style /
                                
                                  Ȝit say I þis as to comun entent
                                
                                  Thus moche amounteth al þat euer he ment

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 339
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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