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

                                
                                     [6-text p 293] 
                                  
                                  ffor he hadde foundyn a corn lay in the ȝerd
                                
                                  Royal he was he nas no moore aferyd
                                
                                  He feterede Pertelote twenty tyme
                                
                                  And trad as ofte er it was pryme
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                                  He lokyth as it weere a grym lyoun
                                
                                  And on hise tois he romyth vp & doun
                                
                                  Hym deynyth nat to sette hise feet to grounde
                                
                                  He chukkith whan he hath a corn I-founde
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                                  And to hym rennyn thanne hise wyuys alle
                                
                                  Thus royal as a prynce is in an halle
                                
                                  Leue I this chauntecleer in his pasture
                                
                                  And aftyr wele I telle his auenture
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                                  ¶ Whan that the monythe / in which that the world be-gan
                                
                                  That high[t]e March / whan god ferst makede man
                                
                                  Was compleet & passede weere also
                                
                                  Syn March bygan .30. dayis & two
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                                  By-fel that chauntecleer in al his pryde
                                
                                  His seuene wyuys walkynge hym by-syde
                                
                                  Caste vp hire eyen to the bryghte sunne
                                
                                  That in the signe of taurus hadde I-rounne
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                                  Twenty degreis & on & sumwhat moore
                                
                                  And knew by kynde & by noon othir lore
                                
                                  That It was pryme & krew with b[l]ysful steuene
                                
                                  The sunne on heye is clombyn vp on heuene
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                                  .90. degreis & on & moore I-wis
                                
                                  Madame pertelote myn wordelis blys
                                
                                  Herkenyth these blysful brydis how they synge [folio 369b] 
                                
                                  And se the frosche flouris how they sprynge
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                                  fful is myn herte of reuel & solas
                                
                                  But sodeynly hym fel a sorweful cas
                                
                                  ffor euere the lattere ende of Ioye is wo
                                
                                  God wot that wordely ioye / is soone ago
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                                  And ȝif a retor coude fayre endyte
                                
                                  He in a cronicle sauely myghte it wryte
                                
                                  As for a souereyn notabilyte
                                
                                  Now euery wise man now herkene me

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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 511
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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