Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

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

[6-text p 520] And seyde my body at þe leste way þer schal no wight defoule it if þat I may What schulde I mo ensamples her of sayn Siþþen þat so many han hemselue slayn 1420 Wel raþer þan þey wolde defouled be / I wol conclude what is best for me [to sle my selue / than be defouled thus [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14]] I wol be trewe / to Arueragus] 1424 Oþir raþer sle my self in som manere As Demonicious doughter dere By cause þat sche nolde not defouled be / O Cedasus it is ful gret pite [folio 169a] 1428 To reden how þi doughtren deyeden allas þat slowe hemself for such a maner caas As gret appetyt was it or more The Theban mayden þat for Nichasore 1432 [hir selue slowe / right for suche manere woo [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14]] another Theban maiden dide right so] hire hadde wedded and y-dressed [[spurious]] ffor on of Macedoigne hadde hire oppressed 1435 þat schal I sayn of Nicharatiffs wijf þat for such cas byrafte hir self hir lyf how trewe was eek to alcebiades his loue þat for to deyen chees 1440 þan for to suffren his body vmbreyde be lo which a wyf was Alcestem quod sche What Emore of good Penolope / Al Grece knoweþ of hir chastite 1444 Pardee of leodomia is write þus That when at Troye was slayn protheselayus No lenger nolde sche lyue after his day The same of noble Porcia I telle may 1448 Wiþoute Brutus couþe sche not lyue To whom he hadde al hol his herte ȝiue The parfyt wyfhod of archemesy honoured is þurgh al þe Barbary 1452
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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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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,
1868-[1869]

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