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

                                
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                                  If it so be þat I haue it in mynde /
                                
                                  ¶ he sayd þe kyng of Arraby and yynde
                                
                                  My liege lord on þis solempne day
                                
                                  Saluteth ȝou as he best can or may
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                                  he sendeth ȝou in honour of ȝour feste
                                
                                  By me þat am redy at al his heste
                                
                                  This steede of bras þat esily and wel
                                
                                  That can in the space of o day naturel
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                                  This is to say in four an twenty houres
                                
                                  wher-so ȝou lust / in droughþe or in schoures
                                
                                  Beren ȝour body in to euery place
                                
                                  To which ȝour herte wilneþ for to pace
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                                  wiþouten wem of ȝou þurgh foul and fair
                                
                                  Or if ȝou lust to flee as heiȝ in þair
                                
                                  As doþ an egle whan him list to sore [folio 150b] 
                                
                                  This same steede schal bere ȝou euermore /
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                                  wiþoute harm til ȝe be þer ȝou leste
                                
                                  Though þat ȝe slepen on his bak or reste
                                
                                  And torne aȝein with wryþing of a pyn
                                
                                  he þat it wrought cowþe ful many a gyn
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                                  he wayted many a constellacioun
                                
                                  Er he had do þis operacioun
                                
                                  And knew ful many a seal and many a bond
                                
                                  ¶ This mirour eek þat I haue in myn hond
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                                  haþ such a mighte / þat men may in it see
                                
                                  when þer schal falle eny aduersite
                                
                                  Vnto ȝour regne vnto ȝour self also
                                
                                  And openly who is ȝour frend or fo
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                                  And ouer al þis if eny lady bright
                                
                                  hath set hir hert on eny maner wight
                                
                                  If he be fals sche schal his tresoun see
                                
                                  his newe loue and his subtilite
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                                  So openly þat þer schal noþing hyde
                                
                                  wherfor aȝeins þis lusty somer tyde
                                
                                  This mirour and þis ryng þat ȝe may see
                                
                                  he haþ send to my lady Canacee

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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 340
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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