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

                                
                                  An Egle tame as eny lylie whyt
                                
                                  An hundred lordes had he with him þer
                                
                                  Al armed sauf here hedes in here ger
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                                  Ful richely in alle maner þinges
                                
                                  For trusteþ wel þat dukes Erles kynges
                                
                                  were gadred in þis noble companye
                                
                                  For loue and for encres of Chiualrye /
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                                  Aboute þe kyng þer ran on euery part
                                
                                  Ful many a tame lyoun and lepart
                                
                                  And in þis wise þis lordes alle and some
                                
                                  Been on the sonday to þe cite kome
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                                  Aboute prime and in þe toun alight
                                
                                  This Theseus þis duk þis worþy knight
                                
                                  whan he had brought hem in to þis cite
                                
                                  And ynned hem euerich at his degre
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                                  he festeþ hem and doþ so gret labour
                                
                                  To esen hem and do hem al honour
                                
                                  That ȝit men wene þat no mannes wyt/
                                
                                  Of non estat þat cowde amenden it/
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                                  The mynstralcye þe seruyce at þe feste
                                
                                  The grete ȝiftes to þe most and leste
                                
                                  The riche aray of Thebes his paleys
                                
                                  Ne who sat first ne last vpon þe deys
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                                  what ladies fayrest ben or best daunsyng
                                
                                  Or which of hem can daunce best or syng
                                
                                  Ne who most felyngly spekeþ of loue
                                
                                  what haukes sitten on þe perche aboue
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                                  what houndes lyen in þe floor a-doun
                                
                                  Of al þis make I now no mencioun
                                
                                  But of þeffect þat þinkeþ me þe beste /
                                
                                  Now comth þe poynt and herkneth if ȝou leste
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                                  The sonday night or day bigan to springe [folio 30a] 
                                
                                  when Palomon þe larke herde synge
                                
                                  Al þough it were nought day by houres tuo
                                
                                  ȝit sang þe larke and Palomon also /
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                                  with holy herte and with an heih corage

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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 63
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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