The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  ffor euerych wyght / þat loued cheualrye
                                
                                  And wold his thankes / han a passaunt name
                                
                                  Hath preyed þat he myght / ben of that game [folio 28a] 
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                                  And wel was him / that ther-to chosen was
                                
                                  ffor if there fel / to-morwen swich a kaas
                                
                                  Ȝe knowen wele / that euery lusty knyght
                                
                                  That loueth paramours / and hath his myght
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                                  Were it in Engelond / or elles where
                                
                                  They wolde here thankes / wyllen to be there
                                
                                  To fighten for a lady / benedicite
                                
                                  It were a lusty sight / for to se
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                                  ¶ . And right so ferden they / with Palamon
                                
                                  with him there went / knyghtes many on
                                
                                  Some wold ben armed / in haberioun
                                
                                  And in a breestplate / and a light Iepoun
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                                  And some wold haue / a peyre plates large
                                
                                  And some wold haue / a spruce sheld & targe
                                
                                  And some wold ben armed / on hise legges wele
                                
                                  And haue an Ax / & some a mace of stele
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                                  There nys no newe gyse / þat it nas old
                                
                                  Armed were they / as I haue ȝow told
                                
                                  Euerych after / hise opynion
                                
                                  ¶ . There maist þou se / comyng with Palamon
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                                  lygurge him self / the grete kyng of Trace
                                
                                  Blak was his berd / and manly was his face
                                
                                  The sercles of hise eyen / in his hede
                                
                                  They gloweden / betwix ȝelwe & rede
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                                  And like a griffon / loked he a-boute
                                
                                  with kempe heeres / on hise browes stoute
                                
                                  hys lymes grete / hise braunes hard & strong
                                
                                  his shuldres brode / his armes grete & long
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                                  And as the gyse was / in his contre
                                
                                  fful heye / vp on a chayer of gold / stod he
                                
                                  with foure white Boles / in the trays
                                
                                  In stede of Cotearmure / ouer his harneys
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                                  with nayles ȝelwe / and bright as eny gold

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 61
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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