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

                                
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                                  I sey namoore / but in this Iolynesse
                                
                                  I lete hem / til men / to the souper dresse
                                
                                  ¶ The Styward / byt Spices for to hye
                                
                                  And eek the wyn / in al this melodye
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                                  The vsshers / and the Squyers / been ygon
                                
                                  The Spices and the wyn / is come anon
                                
                                  They ete and drynke / and whan this hadde an ende
                                
                                  Vn to the temple / as reson was they wende
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                                  ¶ The seruyce doon / they soupen al by day
                                
                                  What nedeth yow / rehercen hir array
                                
                                  Ech man woot wel / þat at a kynges feste
                                
                                  Hath plentee / to the meeste / and to the leeste
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                                  And deyntees / mo than been in my knowyng
                                
                                  At after souper / gooth this noble kyng
                                
                                  To seen this hors of bras / with al a route
                                
                                  Of lordes / and of ladyes / hym aboute
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                                  ¶ Swich wondryng was ther/ on this hors of bras
                                
                                  That syn the grete sege / of Troye was
                                
                                  Ther as men wondreden / on an hors also
                                
                                  Ne was ther / swich a wondryng as was tho
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                                  But finally / the kyng axeth this knyght
                                
                                  The vertu of this Courser / and the myght
                                
                                  And preyed hym / to telle his gouernaunce
                                
                                  ¶ This hors anon / gan for to trippe and daunce
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                                  Whan þat this knyght leyde hand vp on his reyne
                                
                                  And seyde sire / ther nys namoore to seyne
                                
                                  But whan yow list to ryden any where
                                
                                  Ye moten trille a pyn / stant in his ere
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                                  Which I shal yow telle / bitwixe vs two
                                
                                  Ye mote nempne hym / to what place also
                                
                                  Or to what contree / þat yow list to ryde
                                
                                  And whan ye come / ther as yow list abyde
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                                  Byd hym descende / and tryl another pyn
                                
                                  ffor ther Inne lyth / theffect of al the gyn
                                
                                  And he wol doun descende / and doon youre wille
                                
                                  And in that place / he wol abiden stille

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 303
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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