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 ...

                                
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                                  His vois was merier / þan þe mery orgon
                                
                                  On masdaies / þat in chirche goon
                                
                                  wele sikerer was his crowyng in his logge
                                
                                  Than is a clok/ or ony Abbeyes orlogge
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                                  By nature he knewe ecch assencion
                                
                                  Of the equynoxiall / in þat toun
                                
                                  ffor whan degrees .xv. were assended.
                                
                                  Than crue he / þat it myght nat be amended
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                                  His combe / was redder / þan þe fyn corall
                                
                                  And bateld / as it were a Castell wall
                                
                                  His bill was blak / and as þe geet it shone
                                
                                  like asure were his legges / and his tone
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                                  His nailes whitter þan þe lilly flour
                                
                                  And like the burned gold was his colour
                                
                                  This gentill Cok / hade in his gouernaunce
                                
                                  .vij. hennes for to do all his plesaunce
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                                  which weren his susters / and his paramours
                                
                                  And wonder like to him / as of colours
                                
                                  Of which / þe fairest hewed on hir throte
                                
                                  Was cleped faire damysell Partelote /
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                                  He fethered hir / an hundred tyme a day [Eg. 2726 folio 210a] 
                                
                                  And she hym pleseth / all þat euer she may
                                
                                  Curteys she was / discrete and debonair [[? spurious]] 
                                
                                  And compynable / and bare hir self so fair [[? spurious]] 
                                
                                  Sen thilk day / þat she was .vij. nyght old
                                
                                  That truely she hath / þe hert/ in hoold
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                                  Of Chauntecleer / loken in euery lyth
                                
                                  He loued hir so / þat wele was hym þere-with/
                                
                                  Bot soch a Ioye was it / to here hem syng
                                
                                  whan þat þe bright son / gan to spryng
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                                  In swete accorde / my lief is fair in lond
                                
                                  ffor thilk tyme / as I have vnderstond
                                
                                  Bestes and birdes / kouden speke and syng
                                
                                  And so byfell / that in a dawenyng
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                                  As Chauntcleer / amonges his wyfes all
                                
                                  Sat on his perche / þat was in þe hall
                                
                                  And next hym sate / þis feir partelote
                                
                                  This Chauntcleer gan grone in his throte /

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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 505
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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