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

                                
                                  That noon estaat assureth to been weel
                                
                                  Now certes lord / to abiden youre presence
                                
                                  Heere in this temple / of the goddesse clemence
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                                  We haue been waytynge / al this fourtenyght
                                
                                  Now help vs lord / syth it is in thy myght
                                
                                  ¶ I wrecche / which þat wepe and waille thus
                                
                                  Was whilom wyf / to kyng Cappaneus
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                                  That starf at Thebes / cursed be the day
                                
                                  And alle we / þat been in this array
                                
                                  And maken / al this lamentacioun
                                
                                  We losten alle oure housbondes / at that town
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                                  Whil þat the sege / ther aboute lay
                                
                                  And yet now / the olde Creon weylaway
                                
                                  That lord is now / of Thebes the Citee
                                
                                  ffulfild of Ire / and of Iniquitee
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                                  He for despit / and for his tyrannye
                                
                                  To doon / the dede bodyes vileynye
                                
                                  Of alle oure lordes / whiche þat been slawe [folio 14a] 
                                
                                  Hath alle the bodyes / on an heepe ydrawe
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                                  And wol nat suffren hem / by noon assent
                                
                                  Neyther to been yburyed / nor ybrent
                                
                                  But maketh houndes / ete hem in despit
                                
                                  And with that word / with outen moore respit
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                                  They fillen gruf and cryden pitously
                                
                                  Haue / on vs wrecched wommen / som mercy
                                
                                  And lat oure sorwe / synken in thyn herte
                                
                                  ¶ This gentil duc doun from his courser sterte
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                                  With herte pitous / whan he herde hem speke
                                
                                  Hym thoughte / þat his herte wolde breke
                                
                                  Whan he saugh hem / so pitous / and so maat
                                
                                  That whilom weren / of so greet estaat
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                                  And in hise armes / he hem alle vp hente
                                
                                  And hem conforteth / in ful good entente
                                
                                  And swoor his ooth / as he was trewe knyght
                                
                                  He wolde doon / so ferforthly his myght
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                                  Vp on the tiraunt Creon / hem to wreke

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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 28
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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