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

                                
                                     [6-text p 480] 
                                  
                                  Myn engelysch is ek insufficient
                                
                                  It muste be a Rethor excellent
                                
                                  That coude hise colouris / longynge for that art
                                
                                  ȝif he schulde discryuyn euery part
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                                  I am non schich I mot speke as I can
                                
                                  And so by-fil that this Cambynskan
                                
                                  Hath twenty wyntyr boryn his diademe
                                
                                  As he was wone ffrom ȝer to ȝeer I deme
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                                  He leet the feste of his natyuitee
                                
                                  Doon cryen thour Sarray his Citee
                                
                                  [The last Idus of Marche aftir þe yere [Sloane MS 1685 folio 79a] 
                                
                                  Phebus þe Sonne fulle Iolyf was & clere
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                                  ffor he was nyh · his exaltacion
                                
                                  In martes face and his mancion
                                
                                  In aries þe Coloryk þe hoot signe
                                
                                  fful lusty was þe weder & benygne
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                                  ffor whiche þe foules ayeyn þe son shene
                                
                                  what for þe seson and þe yonge grene
                                
                                  fful lowde songe hir affecciouns
                                
                                  hem semyd þei hade goten hem protecciouns
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                                  A-yeyne þe swerde of wynter kene & Colde
                                
                                  This Kambynskan of whiche I haue you tolde
                                
                                  In riall vestement syt on hys deys
                                
                                  with a Dyademe full hiȝe in his paleys
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                                  And holte his feste sollempne & so riche
                                
                                  þat in þis worlde ne was þere none hit lyche
                                
                                  Of whiche yf I · shalle telle alle þe array
                                
                                  That wolde hit occupie a somers day
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                                  And eke hit nedyth not to devise
                                
                                  At euery cours þe ordre of h]ere seruyse [Cambr. MS]  [folio 277b] 
                                
                                  [I wolle not telle of her straun]ge sewys
                                
                                  [Ne of here swannes ne of [This line wanting in Sl. 1685, half is supplied from Harl. 1758, leaf 68, back] ] here heirounnsewis
                                
                                  [Eke in þat londe as tel]lyn knyȝtis olde
                                
                                  [There ys some mete þat ys fulle] deynte holde
                                
                                  [That in þis l]ond men reche of it but smal
                                
                                  [There ys] no man that may reportyn al

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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.
Canvas: Page 310
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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