The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  [The chambres . and the stables weren wyde. [[Harl. 1758]] 
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                                  And well were esid . at the beste.
                                
                                  And schortly . whan the sonne was to reste.
                                
                                  So had I spoken . with hem euerychon.
                                
                                  That I was . of here felaschip anon.
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                                  And made forward . erly for to ryse.
                                
                                  To take oure way . there as I you deuyse.
                                
                                  But natheles . while I haue tyme and space.
                                
                                  Or that I ferþer . in this tale pace.]
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                                  Me thynketh it a-cordaunt to resoun [[The Cambridge MS., leaf 132, begins here.]] 
                                
                                  To telle ȝow / al the conchusyoun
                                
                                  Of eche of hem as it semyth me
                                
                                  And whiche þey were & of what degre
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                                  And ek in what aray þat they were inne
                                
                                  And at a knyȝt þanne wele I ferst begynne
                                
                                  ¶ A knyght þere was & that a worthy man [Miles [on the left. On the right, in a later hand, like all the subsequent names,] Knyth] 
                                
                                  That from the tyme that he ferst began
                                
                                  To rydyn out he louede Chyualrye
                                
                                  Trouthe honour fredom & curteysie
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                                  fful worthi was he in hese lordis werre
                                
                                  And therto hadde he / redyn noman ferre
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                                  As wel in cristyndom as in hethnesse
                                
                                  And euere honoured for hese worthynesse
                                
                                  ¶ At Alisandir he was whan it was wonne
                                
                                  And ofte tyme / he hadde þe bord begunne
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                                  A-bouyn alle nacyounnys in Pruce
                                
                                  In lectowe hadde he reysed & in reuce
                                
                                  Non cristene man so ofte / of his degre
                                
                                  In gernage at þe sege ek hadde he be
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                                  Of Algazer & redyn in balmarye
                                
                                  At leyeys was he & at satalye
                                
                                  Whan they were wonne & in þe grete see
                                
                                  At manye a nobil aryue hadde he be
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                                  At mortal bataylis hadde he be fiftene
                                
                                  And [foughten] for oure feith at tramessene
                                
                                  In lystis thryis / & ay slayen his fo

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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