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

                                
                                     [6-text p 487] 
                                  
                                  I seye namore but in this iolynesse
                                
                                  I leete hem tyl men to the soper dresse
                                
                                  The styward bit spicis for to hye
                                
                                  And ek the wyn in al this melodye
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                                  The vsscheris & the squyeris been I-goon
                                
                                  The spicis & the wyn be comyn a-noon
                                
                                  They ete & d[r]ynke & whan this hadde an ende
                                
                                  Vn-to the temple as reson was they wende
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                                  The seruyse doun they soupyn al be day
                                
                                  What nedyth  [[m corrected]] me reherce al here a-ray
                                
                                  Eche man wiste wel þat a kyngis feste [[first e corrected]] 
                                
                                  Hath plente to meste & ek to leste
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                                  And deynteis moo than been to myn knowyng
                                
                                  At aftyr sopir goth this noble kyng
                                
                                  To seen this hors of bras with al the route
                                
                                  Of lordis & of ladyis hym a-boute
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                                  Swich wonderyng was on this hors of bras
                                
                                  That syn the greete sege of Troye was
                                
                                  Ne was there swich a wonderyng as was tho
                                
                                  There as men wonderedyn on an hors also
                                  Line 308 
                                
                                  But finally this kyng askyth this knyght
                                
                                  The vertu of this courser & the myȝt
                                
                                  And preyede hym to telle his gouernaunce
                                
                                  This hors anon be-gan to tryppe & daunce
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                                  Whan that this knyght leyde hand vp-on his regne [folio 281a] 
                                
                                  And seyde sire there nys no moore to seyne
                                
                                  But whan thu lyste to ryde any where
                                
                                  ȝe mote trylle a pyn stant in his eere
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                                  Whiche I schal ȝow telle be-twyxe vs two
                                
                                  ȝe mote nemenyn hym to what place also
                                
                                  Or to wat cuntre þat thow lyste to ryde
                                
                                  And whan ȝe come there as ȝow leste abyde
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                                  Bydde hym discende & trylle a nothir pyn
                                
                                  ffor theere lyth theffect of al the gyn
                                
                                  And he wele doun descende & don ȝoure wille
                                
                                  And in that place he wele stonde stylle

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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 317
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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