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

[6-text p 276] [6-text p 277]

                                  
                                    What preys weere it for hym thow that I tolde [folio 360b] 
                                  
                                    Of daryus & an hunderede thousent mo
                                  
                                    Of Kyngis Dukis. Erlys. pryncis bolde
                                  
                                    Whiche he conquerede & broughte in-to woo
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                                    I seye as fer as men may ryde or go
                                  
                                    The world was his what schulde I moore deuyse
                                  
                                    For thow I wryte or tolde ȝow euere mo
                                  
                                    Of his knyghthod it myghte not suffyse
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                                    Twelue ȝeer he regnede / as seyth Machabee
                                  
                                    Philippis sone of Macidonye he was
                                  
                                    That fyrst was kyng of grece the cuntre
                                  
                                    O worthi gentile Alisaundere allas
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                                    That euere schulde fallyn swich a cas
                                  
                                    Enpoisounnede of thynne owene folk thow weere
                                  
                                    Thyn sys fortune hath turnede in-to aas
                                  
                                    And for the ne wepe sche neuere a teere
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                                    Who schal me ȝeuyn teerys to compleyne
                                  
                                    The deth of gentilesse & of fraunchise
                                  
                                    That al this world weldede in his demeigne
                                  
                                    And ȝit hym thoughte it myghte nat suffyse
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                                    So ful was his corage / of high empryse
                                  
                                    Allas ho schal me helpe to endyte
                                  
                                    ffals fortune & poysoun to dispise
                                  
                                    The whiche two of al this wo I wyte
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[Julius Cæsar.]

                                    
                                      ¶ By wisdam manhod & by greet labour [Iulius] 
                                    
                                      From homble bed to royal mageste
                                    
                                      Vp ros he Iulius the conquerour
                                    
                                      That wan al th  [[o corrected]] occydent bothe lond & se
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                                      By strenthe of hand or ellys by tretee
                                    
                                      And vn-to Roome made hem trybutarye
                                    
                                      And sithe the Emperour of rome was he
                                    
                                      Tyl that fortune wex his Aduersarye

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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 492
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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