The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                  
                                       [6-text p 131] 
                                    
                                    The tree of Phillis for hire Demephon
                                  
                                    The pleynt of Dyanyre and of Ermion
                                  
                                    Of Adriane and of ysyphile
                                  
                                    The barayne ysle stondyng in þe see
                                    Line 68 
                                  
                                    The dreynt leander for his Erro
                                  
                                    The teeres of helyne and eek þe woo
                                  
                                    Of Brixseyde and of þe ladomya
                                  
                                    þe cruelte of queen medea
                                    Line 72 
                                  
                                    The litel children hangyng by þe hals
                                  
                                    ffor þe Iason þat was of loue so fals
                                  
                                    Of ypmistra Penolope Alceste
                                  
                                    youre wifhode he comendeth wiþ þe beste [folio 75a] 
                                  
                                    But certeinly no word ne writeþ he
                                  
                                    Of þikke wicke ensample of Canace
                                  
                                    That loued hir owne brother synfully
                                  
                                    Of suche cursed stories I sei fy
                                    Line 80 
                                  
                                    Or elles of Tyro Appoloneus
                                  
                                    how þat þe cursed king Antiochus
                                  
                                    Biraft his doughter of hir maydenhede
                                  
                                    That is so horrible a tale for to rede
                                    Line 84 
                                  
                                    Whan he hir þrew þorugh þe pament
                                  
                                    And þerfore he of ful auisement
                                  
                                    Nolde neuer write in none of his sermons
                                  
                                    Of which vnkynde abhominacions
                                    Line 88 
                                  
                                    Ne I ne wil not reherce if þat I may
                                  
                                    But of my tale how schal I don þis day
                                  
                                    Me were loþ be likned douteles
                                  
                                    To muses þat men clepen pieriedes
                                    Line 92 
                                  
                                    Methamorphoseos wot what I mene
                                  
                                    But naþeles I recche nought a bene
                                  
                                    Though I come after him with hawe bake
                                  
                                    I speke in prose and lat him Rimes make
                                    Line 96 
                                  
                                    And with þat word he with a sobre chere
                                  
                                    Bigan his tale as ȝe schal after heere.

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 157
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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