The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 480] 
                                  
                                  Myn englissh eek is insufficient
                                
                                  he moste be a Rethor excellent
                                
                                  That couþ his colours longyng for þat art
                                
                                  If he schold hir discryue in eny part
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                                  I am non such I mot speke as I can
                                
                                  And so bifel it þat þis Cambynskan
                                
                                  haþ twenty wynter born his dyademe
                                
                                  As he was wont fro ȝer to ȝer I deme
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                                  he leet þe fest of his natiuite:
                                
                                  Don cryen þurgh Sarray his Cite
                                
                                  The last Idus of march after þe ȝeer [folio 149b] 
                                
                                  Phebus þe sonne was Ioly and cleer
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                                  For he was neigh his exaltacioun
                                
                                  In marcȝ face and in his mansioun
                                
                                  In aries þe colerik þe hote signe
                                
                                  Ful lusty was the wedir and benigne
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                                  For which þe foules aȝein þe sonne scheene
                                
                                  what for þe sesoun & for þe ȝonge greene
                                
                                  Ful lowde song in here affecciouns
                                
                                  hem semed haue geten hem protecciouns
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                                  Aȝens þe swerd of wynter kene and cold
                                
                                  This Cambynskan of which I haue told
                                
                                  In royal vesture sittyng on his deys
                                
                                  with dyadem ful heigh in his paleys
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                                  And held his fest . solempne and so riche
                                
                                  That in þis worlde was þer noon it liche
                                
                                  Of which if I schal tellen al þarray
                                
                                  Than wold it occupie a someres day
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                                  And eek it neediþ nouȝt for to deuyse
                                
                                  At euery cours þe ordre and þe seruyse
                                
                                  I wol nat tellen of her straunge sewes
                                
                                  Ne of her swannes ne here heroun-sewes
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                                  Ek in þat lond as tellen knightes olde
                                
                                  Ther is som mete þat is ful deynte holde
                                
                                  That in þis lond men recch of it but smal
                                
                                  Ther is no man it may reporten al

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 338
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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