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

[6-text p 580]

                                  
                                    Whan phebus duelt her in þis erþe a doun
                                  
                                    As olde bookes maken mencioun
                                  
                                    He was þe moste lusty bachiler
                                  
                                    Of al þis world and eek þe best archer
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                                    He slough phiton þe serpent as he lay
                                  
                                    Slepyng agayn þe sonne vpon a day
                                  
                                    And many another noble worþy dede
                                  
                                    He with his bowe wrought as men may rede /
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                                    Pleyen he couþe on euery mynstralcye
                                  
                                    And syngen þat it was a melodye
                                  
                                    To heren of his cleere vois þe soun
                                  
                                    Certes þe kyng of Thebes amphioun
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                                    That with his singyng wallid þat citee
                                  
                                    Couþe neuer synge half so wel as he /
                                  
                                    Ther-to he was þe semlieste man
                                  
                                    That is or was siþþen þe world bigan [folio 248a] 
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                                    what nediþ it his fortune to descriue
                                  
                                    For in þis worlde is noon such on lyue
                                  
                                    he was þer with fulfild of gentilesce
                                  
                                    Of honour and of parfyt worþinesse
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                                    This phebus þat was flour of bachilerie
                                  
                                    Als wel in fredom as in chiualrie
                                  
                                    For to disport in signe of victorie
                                  
                                    Of phiton so as telleþ vs þe storie
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                                    was wont to bere in his hond a bowe
                                  
                                    Now had þis phebus in his hous a crowe
                                  
                                    which in a cage he fostred many a day
                                  
                                    And taught it speken as men doon a iay

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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 582
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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