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

                                
                                     [6-text p 518] 
                                  
                                  It is aȝeine þe process of Nature [[These lines are trans|posed in the MS.]] 
                                
                                  And home sche goþ a sorweful creature [[These lines are trans|posed in the MS.]] 
                                
                                  For verraie vnneþ maie sche go
                                
                                  Sche wepeþ and weyleþ a daie or tuo
                                  Line 1348 
                                
                                  And swowneþ þat it reuþ was to see
                                
                                  Bot whi it was to no whight tolde sche·
                                
                                  For oute of toune was gone Arneragus [This line is repeated on top of leaf 149] 
                                
                                  Bot to hir selfe sche saide and spak þus [folio 149a] 
                                  Line 1352 
                                
                                  In hire compleint as ȝe schollen affter here
                                
                                  Wiþ face pale and wiþ sorwheful chiere
                                
                                  Alas quod sche on þe fortune .I. pleine
                                
                                  þat vnwar hast wrapped me in þi cheyne
                                  Line 1356 
                                
                                  For whiche þe Eskape wote .I. no socoure
                                
                                  Saue only deþe oþir dishonoure
                                
                                  One of þis tuo behoueþ me to chese
                                
                                  Bot naþeles ȝit hadde leuere to lese
                                  Line 1360 
                                
                                  Mi lif þan of my bodi to haue a schame
                                
                                  Oþer knowe my self fals oþer lese my name
                                
                                  And wiþ my deþ .I. may me quyte y-wis
                                
                                  Haþ þere nouht mony a wif ar þis
                                  Line 1364 
                                
                                  And mony a maiden ysleine hire self alas
                                
                                  Raþer þat wiþ hire bodis done trespas
                                
                                  And certes lo þes stories bereþ wittenesse
                                
                                  Whan .xxx. tyrantez ful of cursednesse
                                  Line 1368 
                                
                                  Had sleyne Phidon in Athenes att þe lest
                                
                                  Thei commaunded his douhtres to arest
                                
                                  And bringen hem be-forne him in despite
                                
                                  Al naked to ful-fil hire foule delite
                                  Line 1372 
                                
                                  And in here faders blode þe[i] made hem daunce
                                
                                  Vppon þe pament god ȝeue hem meschaunce
                                
                                  For whiche þes woful maidens ful of drede
                                
                                  Raþer þan þe[i] wolden lese here maidenhede
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                                  þei priuely bene stert in-to a well
                                
                                  And dreinte hem self as þe bokes tell.
                                
                                  Thei of Mesne lete e[n]quere and seke
                                
                                  Of lacedemye .l. maydens eke

                                  Line 1380

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 369
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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