The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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[THE PROEM.]
¶ The p[ro]loge of þe ffrankeleyn
Thise olde gentile britouns in here dayes [on leaf 159] Of diuerse auentures maden layes Rymeden in here firste britoun tonge Whiche layes with here instrumentz þey songe Line 712 Oþer elles radden hem for here plesaunce And on of hem haue I in remembraunce Which I schal seye wiþ as good wille as I can But sires by cause þat I am a burel man Line 716 At my begynnyng first I ȝou beseche haueþ me excused of my rude speche I lerned neuer rethorik certayn þing þat I speke it mot be bare and playn Line 720 I slepte neuer on þe mount of pernaso Ne neuer lered Marcus Thullius ne Cithero Colours of Rethorik ne knowe I non wiþouten drede But suche coloures as growen in þe mede Line 724 Oþir elles suche as men dye or peynte Colours of Rethorik ben me to queynte Myn spyrit feleþ nought of such matere But if ȝe luste my tale schul ȝe not here Line 728
[THE TALE.]
Ther was a knight þat loued and did his peyne Line 730 In amoryke þat cleped is Briteyne Line 729 To seruen a lady in his beste wise And many a labour and many a gret emprise Line 732
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The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,
1868-[1869]

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