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

                                
                                     [6-text p 484] 
                                  
                                  The hors of bras that may not been remeuyd
                                
                                  It stant as it were to the ground I-glewyd
                                
                                  Ther may no man out of the place it dryue
                                
                                  ffor noon engyn of wyndas or palyue
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                                  And cause whi for they can not the craft
                                
                                  And therfore in the place they han it laft
                                
                                  Til that þe knyght hath taughte hem the manere
                                
                                  To voydyn hym as ȝe schal aftyr heere
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                                  ¶ Gret was the pres that swarmyth to & fro
                                
                                  To gauryn on this hors that standyth so
                                
                                  ffor it so high was & so brod & long
                                
                                  So wel proporciounnyd for to been strong
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                                  Ryȝt as it were a stede of lumbardy
                                
                                  Therto so horsely & so quyk of Iye
                                
                                  As it a gentil poleys Courser were
                                
                                  ffor certis from his tayl vn-to his eere
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                                  Nature ne art ne coude hym nat a-mende
                                
                                  In no degre as al the peple wende
                                
                                  But euere more here moste wondir was [folio 279b] 
                                
                                  How that it coude goon & was of bras
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                                  And [[nd corrected]]  was as fayr as al the peple seemede
                                
                                  Dyuers folk dyuersly they demyd
                                
                                  As [[s corrected]]  manye hedis as many wittis þere been
                                
                                  They murmuredyn as don a swarm of been
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                                  And madyn skill aftyr here fantasyis
                                
                                  Rehersynge of these olde poetryis
                                
                                  And seydyn it was lik the pegasee
                                
                                  The hors that hadde wyngis for to flee
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                                  Or ellis it was þe Grekis hors Synoun
                                
                                  That brouȝte Troye to distruccioun
                                
                                  As men in these olde gestis reede
                                
                                  Myn herte quod on is eueremor in drede
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                                  I trowe some men of armys been þerinne
                                
                                  That schapin hem this cete for to wynne
                                
                                  It were right good that alle thynge were knowe
                                
                                  A nothir rounede to his felawe lowe

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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 314
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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