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

                                
                                     [6-text p 484] 
                                  
                                  The hors of bras þat maye nouȝt be remewed
                                
                                  It stant as it were to þe grounde y-glewed
                                
                                  Þer maie no man oute of þe place it driue
                                
                                  For none engyne of windas or poliue
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                                  And cause whi for þei can nouȝt þe craft [folio 81b] 
                                
                                  And þer-for in þe place þei haue it laft
                                
                                  Til þat þe knith haþe tauht hem þe manere
                                
                                  To voyden him as ȝe schal after here
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                                  Grete was þe pres þat swarmed to and fro
                                
                                  To gauren on þis hors þat stondeþ so
                                
                                  For it so hihe was and brode and longe
                                
                                  So wele proporcioned for to be stronge
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                                  Riht as it were a stede of lumbardie
                                
                                  Ther-wiþ so horslye and so quik of eye
                                
                                  As it a gentil poileys courser were
                                
                                  For certes fro his taile vn-to his ere
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                                  Nature ne art kouþe him nouht mende
                                
                                  In no degre as al þe peple wende
                                
                                  Bot euer-more here most wonder it was
                                
                                  How þat it couþe gone and was of bras
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                                  It was of faire as þe peple semed
                                
                                  Diuerse folke diuersely haue demed
                                
                                  As mony hedes as mony wittes þere bene
                                
                                  þei mormorede as done a swarme of bene
                                  Line 204 
                                
                                  And maden skilles after hire fantasies
                                
                                  Rehersinge of þe olde poetries
                                
                                  And seide it was like to þe pegasee [.i. equs pecasus [[first, pedasdus]] ] 
                                
                                  Þe hors þat hade wenges for to flee
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                                  Or elles it was þe grekes hors Sinon
                                
                                  Þat brouht troye to destructione
                                
                                  As men þis olde gestes rede
                                
                                  Myne herte quod one is euer-more in drede
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                                  .I. trowe som men of armes bene þar inne
                                
                                  That schapen hem þis Cite for to wynne
                                
                                  It were riht good þinge þat al suche wer knowe
                                
                                  Anoþere rowned to his felowe lowe

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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 199
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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