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

                                
                                     [6-text p 487] 
                                  
                                  .I. saie no more Bot in þis Iolines
                                
                                  .I. lete hem to men to soper hem dres
                                
                                  The stewarde biddeþ spices for to hihe
                                
                                  And eke þe wine in al þis Melodye
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                                  þe vssheres and þe esquiers bene y-gone
                                
                                  The spices and þe wine be come a-none
                                
                                  Thei ete and dronke and whan þis had an ende
                                
                                  In to þe temple as reson was þei wende
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                                  The seruice done þei sowpen al be daye
                                
                                  What nedeþ ȝow rehersen hire arraye
                                
                                  Iche man wote wele þat att þe kinges fest
                                
                                  Haþ plente to þe maste and to þe lest
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                                  And deinteþes mo þan be in my knowynge
                                
                                  And affter soper goþ þis noble kinge
                                
                                  To seen þis hors of bras wyþ al a route
                                
                                  Of lordes and of ladis him aboute
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                                  Suche was þere on þis hors of bras
                                
                                  þat seþen þe grete sege of troy was
                                
                                  Thar as men wonderden on an hors also
                                
                                  Ne was þere suche a wondrynge as was þo
                                  Line 308 
                                
                                  Bot finaly þe kinge axeþ þis knyht
                                
                                  þe vertue of þis courser and þe myht
                                
                                  And praied him to tel his gouernance [folio 83a] 
                                
                                  The hors anone began to trippe and daunce
                                  Line 312 
                                
                                  Whan þat þe knyht laide honde vpon þe ryne
                                
                                  And seide sir þer is no mor to seine
                                
                                  Bot whan þe luste to ride any where
                                
                                  Ȝe most trill a pinne þat stant in his ere
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                                  Whiche .I. schal tel ȝow be-twene vs tuo
                                
                                  Ȝe mot neuen him to what place also
                                
                                  Or to what cuntre þat ȝoue lust to ride
                                
                                  And whan ȝe come þere as ȝe lust to abide
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                                  Bid him descende and tril anoþere pinne
                                
                                  For þere-in liþe þe effect of al þe ginne
                                
                                  And wil doune descende and done ȝowre will
                                
                                  And in þat place he wil abide still

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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 202
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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