The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.

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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,

1868-1879.

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"The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AGZ8232.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

Pages

[Holofernes.]

                  
                    Was neuere Capitayn / vnder a kyng/ [¶ De Oloferno] 
                  
                    That regnes mo / putte in subieccioun
                  
                    Ne strenger was in feeld / of alle thyng
                  
                    As in his tyme / ne gretter of renoun
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                    Ne moore pompous / in heigh presumpcioun
                  
                    Than Oloferne / which ffortune ay kiste
                  
                    So likerously / and ladde hym vp and doun
                  
                    Til þat his heed was of / er þat he wiste
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                    Nat oonly / that this world / hadde hym in Awe
                  
                    ffor lesynge / of richesse / or libertee
                  
                    But made euery man / reneyen his lawe
                  
                    Nabugodonosor / was god seyde hee
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                    Noon oother god / [ne] sholde adoured bee
                  
                    Agayns his heeste / no wight dorste trespace
                  
                    saue in Bethulia / a strong Citee [¶ Et fecerunt filij Israel secundum quod constituerat eis sacerdos domi|ni Eliachim. [t. i. Joacim, Judith iv. 8.]] 
                  
                    Where Eliachim / a preest was of that place

                  
                    But taak kepe of the deeth of Oloferne
                  
                    Amydde his hoost he dronke lay a nyght
                  
                    With-Inne his tente / large as is a berne
                  
                    And yet for al his pompe / and al his myght
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                    Iudith a womman / as he lay vpright
                  
                    Slepynge / his heed of smoot and from his tente
                  
                    fful pryuely / she stal from euery wight
                  
                    And with his heed / vn-to hir toun she wente
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