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

[6-text p 500]

[and bygynnethe þe tale

[Sloane MS 1685 folio 145b]

[THE PROEM.]

                                    
                                      Thys olde gentell Brytouns in hir/ dayes
                                    
                                      Of dyuerse auentures maden layes
                                    
                                      Remedyn in hert / first Britoun tonge
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                                      Whiche layes with her/ Instrumentes þei songe
                                    
                                      Oþere elles radden hem for her plesaunce
                                    
                                      And on of heme haue I in remembraunce
                                    
                                      Whiche shalle seye with as goode wille as I can
                                    
                                      But Sires be cause þat I am a burell man
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                                      At my begynnynge firste I you be-seche
                                    
                                      hauethe me excused of my rude speche
                                    
                                      I lerned neuere rethorike certayne
                                    
                                      Þenge þat I speke hit mote be bare & playne
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                                      I slepe neuere on þe Mount of pernaso
                                    
                                      Ne neuere lered marchus Tullius ne Cithero
                                    
                                      Colours of rethoryke ne knew I none with outen drede
                                    
                                      But suche Colours as growen in þe mede
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                                      Oþere elles suche as men dye or peynte
                                    
                                      Coloures of rethorike ben me to queynte
                                    
                                      Myne sperit feliþe · nouȝt of suche matere
                                    
                                      But ȝif you luste my tale shalle ȝe not here] [[Sloane extr.ends]]

[THE TALE.]

                                    
                                      IN Armoryk that callyd is Britayne [Camb. MS]  [folio 287a] 
                                    
                                      There was a knyȝt that louede & dede his payne
                                    
                                      To serue a lady in his beste wyse
                                    
                                      And manye a labour / manye a gret empryse

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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 330
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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