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

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Author

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.

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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,

1868-[1869]

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"The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AGZ8235.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2025.

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[Holofernes.]

                  
                    ¶ Was neuer Capitayn vnder a king [¶ De Olipherno] 
                  
                    þat regnes mo putte in subieccioun
                  
                    Ne strenger was in feeld of alle þing
                  
                    As in his tyme ne gretter of Renoun
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                    Ne more pompous in heigh presumpcioun
                  
                    Then Olyferne which fortune ay keste /
                  
                    So likerously and ladde him vp and doun
                  
                    Til þat he hed was er þat he wiste /

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                    ¶ Nought oonly þat þis world had of him awe /
                  
                    ffor lesyng of Richesse and liberte
                  
                    But he made euery man reneye his lawe /
                  
                    Nabugodonosor was lord sayde
                    Line 3752 
                  
                    Non oþer god schulde honoured be
                  
                    Aȝeins his heste no wight dar trespace /
                  
                    Saue in Bethulya a strang Cite
                  
                    Where Elyachim a prest was of þat place
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                    ¶ But take keepe of þe deþ of Olypherne
                  
                    Amydde his hoste he drunke lay a nyght
                  
                    Wiþinne his tente large as is a berne /
                  
                    And ȝet for alle his pompe and alle his might
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                    Iudith a womman as he lay vpright
                  
                    Slepyng his heed of smot and fro his tent /
                  
                    fful pryuyly sche stal fro euery wight
                  
                    . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
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The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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[Holofernes.]

description Page 561

Page 561