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

                                
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                                  ¶ Certes / swich cry / ne lamentacion
                                
                                  Was neuere of ladyes maad / whan ylion
                                
                                  Was wonne / and Pirrus / with his streite swerd
                                
                                  Whanne he hadde hent kyng Priam by the berd
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                                  And slayn hym / as seith vs Eneydos
                                
                                  As maden / alle the hennes in the cloos
                                
                                  Whan they hadde seyn / of Chauntecler the sighte
                                
                                  But souereynly / dame Pertelote shrighte
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                                  fful louder / than dide Hasdrubales wyf
                                
                                  Whan þat hire housbonde / hadde ylost his lyf
                                
                                  And þat the Romayns / hadden brend Cartage
                                
                                  She was / so ful of torment and of rage
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                                  That wilfully / vn-to the fyr she sterte
                                
                                  And brende hir seluen / with a stedefast herte
                                
                                  ¶ O woful hennes / right so cryden ye
                                
                                  As / whan þat Nero / brende the Citee
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                                  Of Rome / cryden the senatours wyues
                                
                                  ffor þat hir housbondes / losten alle hire lyues
                                
                                  With-outen gilt this Nero hath hem slayn
                                
                                  Now wol I turne / to my tale agayn
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                                  ¶ The sely widwe / and eek hire doghtres two
                                
                                  Herden thise hennes crye / and maken wo
                                
                                   [Rats.]  [folio 106b] [And] out at dores / stirten they anon
                                
                                   [Rats.] [A]nd seyen the fox / toward the groue gon
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                                  And bar vp-on his bak/ the cok/ away
                                
                                  And criden / out harrow and weilaway
                                
                                  Ha / ha. the fox / and after hym they ran
                                
                                  And eek with staues / many another man
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                                  Ran Colle oure dogge / and Talbot and Gerlande
                                
                                  And Malkyn / with a distaf in hire hande
                                
                                  Ran Cow and calf / and eek the verray hogges
                                
                                  So fered / for berkynge of the dogges
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                                  And showtynge of the men / and wommen eek
                                
                                  They ronne so / hem thoughte hire herte breek
                                
                                  They yelleden / as fendes doon in helle
                                
                                  The dokes cryden / as men wolde hem quelle

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 242
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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