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

                                
                                     [6-text p 484] 
                                  
                                  The hors of bras þat may nat be remewed
                                
                                  It stant as it were to the ground I-glewed
                                
                                  Ther may no man out of þe place it dryue
                                
                                  For noon engyn of wyndyng or polyue·
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                                  And cause why for þey can nouȝt þe craft
                                
                                  And þerfor in the place þei haue it laft
                                
                                  Til þat þe knight haþ taught hem þe manere
                                
                                  To voyden him as ȝe schul after heere
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                                  Greet was þe pres þat swarmed to and fro
                                
                                  To gauren on þis hors þat stondeth so
                                
                                  For it so wyd was and so brod and long
                                
                                  So wel proporcioned to be strong
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                                  Right as it were a steed of lumbardye
                                
                                  Ther-to so horsly and so quyk of ye
                                
                                  As it a gentil poyleys courser were
                                
                                  For certes fro his tayl vnto his eere
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                                  Nature ne art ne couþe him nouȝt amende
                                
                                  In no degre as al þe poeple wende
                                
                                  But euermore her moste wonder was [folio 151b] 
                                
                                  How þat it couþe goon and was of bras
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                                  It was of fayry as þe poeple semed
                                
                                  Diuerse peple . diuersly þey demed
                                
                                  As many hedes as many wittes been
                                
                                  They murmured as doþ a swarm of been
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                                  And made skiles after her fantasies
                                
                                  Rehersyng of þe olde poetries
                                
                                  And seyden it was I-like þe pagase .i. equus pegaseus
                                
                                  The hors þat hadde wynges for to fle /
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                                  Or elles it was þe grekissch hors Synon
                                
                                  That broughte troye to destruccioun
                                
                                  As men may in þe olde gestes rede /
                                
                                  Myn hert quod oon is euermor in drede
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                                  I trow som men of armes ben þerinne
                                
                                  That schapen hem þis cite for to wynne
                                
                                  It were good / þat such þing were knowe /
                                
                                  Anoþer rowned to his felaw lowe /

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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 342
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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