The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  Myn ynglisse eke is insufficient
                                
                                  It most bene a Rector excellent
                                
                                  That couþe vse colours longeinge for þat art
                                
                                  Ȝif he schold hire discryue any parte
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                                  .I. am none suche .I. most speke as .I. can
                                
                                  And so be-fel whan þat þis Cambynskan
                                
                                  Haþe tuenty wynter borne his Diademe
                                
                                  As he was wonte fro ȝere to ȝere [I deme]
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                                  He lete þe feste of his Natiuite
                                
                                  Done crien þoruhe Sarray his Cite
                                
                                  Þe last Idus of Mars after þe ȝere
                                
                                  Phebus þe sonne ful Ioly was and clere
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                                  For he was nyhe his exaltacion
                                
                                  In Martes face and his mansion
                                
                                  In Aries þe Colerik þe hote signe
                                
                                  Ful lusty was þe weder and benygne
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                                  For whiche þe foules a-ȝein þe sone schene
                                
                                  What for þe seson and þe ȝonge grene
                                
                                  Ful loude songe hire affections
                                
                                  Hem semed han geten hem protections
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                                  Aȝeine þe swerde of wynter kene and colde
                                
                                  This Kambynskan of whiche .I. haue ȝow tolde
                                
                                  In Roial vestment sitte on his dese [folio 80a] 
                                
                                  Wiþ Dyademe ful hihe in his paleyce
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                                  And halt his feste solempne and so riche
                                
                                  Þat in þis werld ne was þer none it lyche
                                
                                  Of whiche if .I. schal tel al þe arraye
                                
                                  Þan wolde it Occupie a somers daie
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                                  And eke it nedeþ nouht to deuise
                                
                                  Of euery cours þe order of hir seruise
                                
                                  .I. wil nouht tel of hir strange sewese
                                
                                  Ne of hir swannes ne of hire heronsewese
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                                  Eke in þat londe as tellen knygtes olde
                                
                                  Þer is sum mete þat is ful deynte holde
                                
                                  þat in þis lande men reche bot smal
                                
                                  Þere is no man þat maie reporten al

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 195
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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