The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  ¶ I wol nat taryen yow / for it is pryme
                                
                                  And for it is no fruyt but los of tyme
                                
                                  Vn to my firste / I wole haue my recours
                                
                                  ¶ And so bifel / that after the thridde cours
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                                  Whil þat this kyng sit thus in his nobleye
                                
                                  Herknynge hise Mynstrals / hir thynges pleye
                                
                                  Biforn hym at the bord / deliciously
                                
                                  In at the halle dore / al sodeynly
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                                  Ther cam a knyght vp on a steede of bras
                                
                                  And in his hand / a brood Mirour of glas
                                
                                  Vpon his thombe / he hadde of gold a ryng /
                                
                                  And by his syde / a naked swerd hangyng
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                                  And vp he rideth / to the heighe bord
                                
                                  In al the halle / ne was ther spoken a word
                                
                                  ffor merueille of this knyght hym to biholde
                                
                                  fful bisily / ther wayten yonge and olde
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                                  ¶ This strange knyght that cam thus sodeynly
                                
                                  Al armed / saue his heed / ful richely
                                
                                  Saleweth kyng and queene / and lordes alle
                                
                                  By ordre / as they seten in the halle
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                                  With so heigh reuerence / and obeisance
                                
                                  As wel in speche / as in contenance
                                
                                  That Gawayn / with his olde curteisye
                                
                                  Though he were / comen ayeyn out of ffairye
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                                  Ne koude hym nat amende with a word
                                
                                  And after this / biforn the heighe bord
                                
                                  He with a manly voys / seith his message [folio 120b] 
                                
                                  After the forme / vsed in his langage
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                                  With outen vice / of silable / or of lettre
                                
                                  And for his tale / sholde seme the bettre
                                
                                  Accordant to hise wordes / was his cheere
                                
                                  As techeth art of speche / hem þat it leere
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                                  Al be / that I kan nat sowne his stile
                                
                                  Ne kan nat clymben / ouer so heigh a style
                                
                                  Yet seye I this / as to commune entente
                                
                                  Thus muche amounteth / al þat euere he mente

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 315
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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