The colour blew, of a right good fasoun;

In tabard-wyse the slevës hanging doun;

And what purfyl there was, and in what wyse,

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So as I can, I shal it you devyse.

After a sort the coller and the vent,

Lyk as ermyne is mad in purfeling;

With grete perlës, ful fyne and orient,

They were couchèd, al after oon worching,

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