The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  Myn englyssh eke is / insufficient
                                
                                  It must ben a Rethor / excellent
                                
                                  That coude hise colours / longyng for that art
                                
                                  If he shulde hire discryuen / euery part
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                                  I nam noon suche / I mot speke as I can
                                
                                  And so byfel / that whan this Cambiuscan
                                
                                  hadde twenty wynter / born his Diademe
                                
                                  As he was wont / fro ȝere to ȝere I deme
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                                  he lete the feste / of his Natiuitee
                                
                                  Do crien thurgh-out Sarray / his Citee
                                
                                  The last ydus of March / after the ȝer
                                
                                  Phebus the Sonne / ful iolyf was and cler
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                                  ffor he was ney / his exaltacion
                                
                                  In martes face / & in his mancion
                                
                                  In Aries / the coleryk hote signe
                                
                                  fful lusty was the wedir / & benygne
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                                  ffor which the foules / ageyn the sonne shene
                                
                                  What for the seson / & the ȝonge greene
                                
                                  fful loude songen / in here affeccions
                                
                                  hem semed haue geten hem / proteccions
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                                  Ageyns the swerd of wynter / kene & colde
                                
                                  This Cambiuscan / of which I haue ȝow tolde
                                
                                  In real vestiment / syt on his deys
                                
                                  With Diademe ful heigh / in his paleys
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                                  And halt his feste / so solempne & so riche
                                
                                  That in this world / ne was þere noon it liche
                                
                                  Of which / if I shal tellen / al the array
                                
                                  Than wold it occupie / a someres day
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                                  And eke it nedeth nat / for to deuyse
                                
                                  At euery cours / the ordre of here seruyse
                                
                                  I wyl nought tellen / of here straunge sewes
                                
                                  Ne of here swannes / ne here heronsewes
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                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                  Line 72

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 313
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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