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

                                
                                  Ȝet was hire deth depeynted þer biforn
                                
                                  By manasyng of mars right by figure
                                
                                  So was it schewed right in þat purtreiture
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                                  As is depeynted in þe sertres aboue
                                
                                  Who schal be slain or elles deed for loue
                                
                                  Sufficeþ oon ensample in stories olde
                                
                                  I may not rekne hem alle þough I wolde
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                                  The statue of mars vpon a carte stood
                                
                                  Armed and loked grym as he were wood
                                
                                  And ouer his heed þer schineþ tuo figures
                                
                                  Of sterres þat ben closed in scriptures
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                                  That oon Puella þat oþer Rubeus
                                
                                  This god of armes was arrayed þus
                                
                                  A wolf þer stood biforn him at his feete
                                
                                  Wiþ eighen reede and of a man he eete
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                                  Wiþ subtill pensell was depeynted þis storie /
                                
                                  In redoutyng of mars and of his glorie [folio 29b] 
                                
                                  Now to þe temple of Diane þe chaste /
                                
                                  As schortly as I can I wol me haste
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                                  To telle ȝou all þe discripcioun
                                
                                  Depeynted ben þe walles vp and doun
                                
                                  Of huntyng and of schamefast chastite
                                
                                  Ther saugh I how woful Calistope
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                                  Whan þat Diane agreued was with here
                                
                                  Was torned fro a womman til a bere / [¶ Vrsa maior] 
                                
                                  And after was sche maad þe loode-sterre
                                
                                  Þus was sche peynted I can ȝou seye no ferre
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                                  Hire sone is eek a sterre as men may se
                                
                                  Ther saugh I dane torned til a tree
                                
                                  I mene nat þe goddesse Diane
                                
                                  But Penneus doughter which þat highte Dane
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                                  ¶ Ther saugh I accheon an herte y-maked
                                
                                  ffor vengance þat he saugh Diane al naked
                                
                                  I saugh how þat his houndes haue him caught/
                                
                                  and freten him for þat þei knewe him naught
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                                  yet ypeynted was a litel forþere more /

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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 59
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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