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

                                
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                                  hys voice was muryer þan þe murye orgon [[Sloane MS 1685]] 
                                
                                  On masse dayes þat in þe Chirche goon
                                
                                  Wele sykerere was þe crowynge in hys loggo
                                
                                  Then ys a Clok /. or an Abbey orlogge
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                                  Be nature he knewe eche ascencioun
                                
                                  Of equynoxiol of þilke toune
                                
                                  ffor when degrees xv were discended
                                
                                  þan knewe he þat it myȝt not be amendid] [[Sloane extract ends]] 
                                
                                  His colour was reddere than the fyne coral [Camb. Univ. MS Gg. 4. 27]  [folio 365a] 
                                
                                  And batayled as it were a castel wal
                                
                                  His byl was blak / and as the Ieet it schoon
                                
                                  Like asure weere hise leggis & hise toon
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                                  Hise naylis whittere / than the lylye flour
                                
                                  And lik the burnede gold was his colour
                                
                                  This gentil kok hadde in his gouernaunce
                                
                                  Seuene hennys for to doon al his plesaunce
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                                  Whiche weere hise susterys & hise paramouris
                                
                                  And wondyr lyk to hym of colourys
                                
                                  Of whiche the fayreste hewyd on hire throte
                                
                                  Was clepid fayre dameselle Pertelote
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                                  Curteys sche was / discreet & debonayre
                                
                                  And compaynable & bar hire self so fayre
                                
                                  Syn thilke day that sche was seue ȝeer old
                                
                                  That trewely sche hath the herte in hold
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                                  Of Chauntecleer lokyn in euery lith
                                
                                  He louede hym so that weel was hym therwith
                                
                                  But swich a Ioye it was to heere hem synge
                                
                                  Whan that the bryghte sune be-gan to sprynge
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                                  With sweete a-cord myn lef is faryn on londe
                                
                                  ffor thilke tyme as I haue vndyrstonde
                                
                                  Bestis & bryddis coude speke & synge
                                
                                  And so be-fel that in a dawenynge
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                                  As Chauntecleer a-mong hise wyuys alle
                                
                                  Sat on his perche that was in an halle
                                
                                  And next hym sat Dame Pertelote
                                
                                  This Chauntecleer gan gronyn in his throte

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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 502
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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