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

                                
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                                  His voys was murier/ than the murie Orgon
                                
                                  On Messedayes / that in the chirche gon
                                
                                  Wel sikerer/ was his crowyng in his logge
                                
                                  Than is a Clokke / or an abbey Orlogge
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                                  By nature / he crew eche Ascencioun
                                
                                  Of the equynoxial in thilke toun
                                
                                  ffor whan degrees fiftene weren ascended
                                
                                  Thanne crew he / that it myghte nat been amended
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                                  His Coomb was redder / than the fyn coral
                                
                                  And batailled / as it were a Castel wal
                                
                                  His byle was blak and as the Ieet it shoon
                                
                                  Lyk Asure / were hise legges and his toon
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                                  Hise nayles / whiter than the lylye flour
                                
                                  And lyk the burned gold / was his colour
                                
                                  This gentil Cok. hadde in his gouernaunce [folio 183b] 
                                
                                  Seuene hennes / for to doon al his plesaunce
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                                  Whiche were / hise sustres and his paramours
                                
                                  And wonder lyk to hym / as of colours
                                
                                  Of whiche / the faireste hewed / on hir throte
                                
                                  Was cleped / faire damoysele Pertelote
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                                  Curteys she was / discreet and debonaire
                                
                                  And compaignable / and bar hyr self so faire
                                
                                  Syn thilke day / þat she was seuen nyght oold
                                
                                  That trewely / she hath the herte in hoold
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                                  Of Chauntecleer / loken in euery lith
                                
                                  He loued hire so / þat wel was hym therwith
                                
                                  But swiche a ioye was it to here hem synge
                                
                                  Whan þat / the brighte sonne / bigan to sprynge
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                                  In sweete accord / My lief is faren in londe
                                
                                  ffor thilke tyme / as I haue vnderstonde
                                
                                  Beestes and briddes / koude speke and synge
                                
                                  ¶ And so bifel / that in the dawenynge
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                                  As Chauntecleer / among hise wyues alle
                                
                                  Sat on his perche / that was in the halle
                                
                                  And next hym / sat this faire Pertelote
                                
                                  This Chauntecleer / gan gronen in his throte

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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 507
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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