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

                                
                                  That al the peple of Grece / sholde speke
                                
                                  How Creon was / of Theseus yserued
                                
                                  As he þat hadde his deeth / ful wel disserued
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                                  And right anoon / with outen moore abood
                                
                                  His baner he desplayeth / and forth rood
                                
                                  To Thebesward / and al his oost bisyde
                                
                                  No neer Atthenes / wolde he go ne ryde
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                                  Ne take his ese / fully half a day
                                
                                  But onward in his wey / that nyght he lay
                                
                                  And sente anoon / ypolita the queene
                                
                                  And Emelye / hir yonge suster sheene
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                                  Vn to the town of Atthenes / to dwelle
                                
                                  And forth he ryt ther nys namoore to telle
                                
                                  ¶ The rede statue of Mars / with spere and targe
                                
                                  So shyneth / in his white Baner large
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                                  That alle the feeldes / glitren vp and doun
                                
                                  And by his Baner / born was his penoun
                                
                                  Of gold ful ryche / in which ther was ybete
                                
                                  The Mynotaur / which þat he wan in Crete
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                                  ¶ Thus ryt this duc. thus ryt this conquerour
                                
                                  And in his oost / of Chiualrye the flour
                                
                                  Til þat he cam to Thebes / and alighte [folio 14b] 
                                
                                  ffaire in a feeld / ther as he thoghte fighte
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                                  ¶ But shortly / for to speken of this thyng
                                
                                  With Creon / which þat was of Thebes kyng
                                
                                  He faught and slow hym manly / as a knyght
                                
                                  In pleyn bataille / and putte the folk to flyght
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                                  And by assaut he wan the Citee after
                                
                                  And rente adoun / bothe wal / and sparre / and rafter
                                
                                  And to the ladyes / he restored agayn
                                
                                  The bones / of hir freendes / þat were slayn
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                                  To doon obsequies / as was tho the gyse
                                
                                  But it weere al to long for to deuyse
                                
                                  The grete clamour / and the waymentynge
                                
                                  That the ladyes made / at the brennynge
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                                  Of the bodies / and the grete honour

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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 29
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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