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

                                
                                     [6-text p 487] 
                                  
                                  A say no more but in þis Iolynesse /
                                
                                  I lete hem til men to soper hem dresse
                                
                                  The styward byt þe spices for to hye
                                
                                  And eek þe wyn in al þis melodye
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                                  Thes vsschers and þes squyers ben agon
                                
                                  The spices and þe wyn is come anoon
                                
                                  They eet and drank and whan þis had an ende /
                                
                                  vnto þe temple as resoun was þey wende /
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                                  The seruise doon þey and soupen al by day
                                
                                  what needeth ȝou to rehersen her array
                                
                                  Ech man wot wel þat a kynges feste
                                
                                  hath plente to þe lest and to the meste
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                                  And deyntees mo þan ben in my knowyng
                                
                                  And after souper goþ þis noble kyng
                                
                                  To see þis hors of bras wiþ al his route
                                
                                  Of lordes and of ladyes al aboute /
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                                  Swich wondryng was þer on þis hors of bras
                                
                                  That seth þis grete siege of troye was /
                                
                                  Ther as men wondred on an hors also
                                
                                  Ne was þer such a wondryng as was þo
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                                  But fynally þe kyng asked þe knight
                                
                                  The vertu of þis courser and þe might
                                
                                  And prayd him tellen of his gouernaunce
                                
                                  The hors anoon gan for to trippe and daunce
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                                  whan þe knight leyd hand vpon his rayne
                                
                                  And sayde sir þer is nomore to sayne [folio 153a] 
                                
                                  But whan ȝou lust to ryde any where /
                                
                                  ȝe moote trille a pyn stant in his ere
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                                  which I schal telle ȝou bitwen vs two
                                
                                  ȝe moste nempne him to what place also
                                
                                  Or what countre ȝou luste for to ryde
                                
                                  And whan ȝe come þer ȝou lust abyde
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                                  Bid him descende and trille anoþer pynne
                                
                                  For þer in lith þe fet of al þe gynne /
                                
                                  And he wol doun descend and do ȝour wille
                                
                                  And in þat place he wol abyde stille

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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 345
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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