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

                                
                                  ffor euery wight that louede chiualrye
                                
                                  And wolde his thankes / han a passant name
                                
                                  Hath preyd / þat he myghte been of that game
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                                  And wel was hym / that ther to chosen was
                                
                                  ffor if ther fille tomorwe swich a caas
                                
                                  Ye knowen wel / þat euery lusty knyght
                                
                                  That loueth paramours / and hath his myght
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                                  Were it in Engelond / or elles where
                                
                                  They wolde hir thankes / wilnen to be there
                                
                                  To fighte for a lady / benedicitee
                                
                                  It were a lusty sighte / for to see
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                                  ¶ And right so / ferden they with Palamon
                                
                                  With hym / ther wenten knyghtes many on
                                
                                  Som wol ben armed in an haubergeon
                                
                                  And in bristplate / and in a light gypon
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                                  And somme woln haue / a paire plates large
                                
                                  And somme woln haue / a Pruce sheeld / or a targe
                                
                                  Somme woln ben armed / on hir legges weel
                                
                                  And haue an Ax / and somme a Mace of steel
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                                  Ther is no newe gyse / that it nas old
                                
                                  Armed were they / as I haue yow told
                                
                                  Everych / after his opinion
                                
                                  Ther maistow seen / comynge with Palamon
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                                  Lygurge hym self the grete kyng of Trace
                                
                                  Blak was his berd / and manly was his face
                                
                                  The cercles / of hise eyen in his heed
                                
                                  They gloweden / bitwyxen yelow and reed
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                                  And lik a grifphon / looked he aboute
                                
                                  With kempe heeris / on hise browes stoute
                                
                                  Hise lymes grete / hise brawnes harde and stronge [folio 27b] 
                                
                                  Hise shuldres brode / hise armes rounde and longe
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                                  And as the gyse was in his contree
                                
                                  fful hye / vpon a Chaar of gold / stood [he [[in a later hand]] ]
                                
                                  With foure white boles in the trays
                                
                                  In stede of Cote Armure / ouer his harnays
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                                  With nayles yelewe / and brighte as any gold

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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 61
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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