The Multitext Edition > Cambridge University Library MS. Gg.4.2.7
The Squire's Tale
Folio 277r
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That oþer sone was clepid
A doughtyr hadde this worth
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T\hat/ ȝyngeste was & hyghte Canace
But for to telle ȝow al hire beautee
It lyth not in myn tunge nyn myn kūnyng
I dar nat vndyrtake so high a thyng
Myn engelysch is ek in sufficient
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It muste be a Rethor excellent
That coude hise colouris / longȳge for that art
Ȝif he schulde discryuyn euery part
I am non schich I mot speke as I can
And so by fil that this Cambyuskan
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Hath twenty wyntyr borȳ his diademe
As he was wone Fro ȝer to ȝeer I deme
He leet the feste of his natyuitee
Doon cryen thor Sarray his Citee