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

                                
                                     [6-text p 519] 
                                  
                                  On whiche þei wolden done here licherye
                                
                                  Bot was þere none of al þat companye
                                
                                  þat sche nas sleyne wiþ a gladd entent
                                
                                  And raþer chase to deye þan for to assent
                                  Line 1384 
                                
                                  To bien oppressed [[? MS ofpressed]]  of here maidenhede
                                
                                  Whi schold .I. þan to deye buen in drede
                                
                                  ¶ Lo eke þe tyrant Anstoclides
                                
                                  þat loued a maide þat hiht simphalides
                                  Line 1388 
                                
                                  Whan þat hir fader sleine was on a nyht
                                
                                  Vnto Dyanes temple goþe sche a-none riht
                                
                                  And hent þe ymage wiþ hire armes tuo
                                
                                  Fro whiche ymage wold sche neuer goo
                                  Line 1392 
                                
                                  No wyht myȝt of it hire hande race [folio 149b] 
                                
                                  Til sche was sleine in þe selue place
                                
                                  Nowe seþen þat maidens hadd suche despite
                                
                                  To bien defouled wiþ mannes foule delite
                                  Line 1396 
                                
                                  Wele auht a wif raþer her self sle
                                
                                  þat to bue defouled as þenkeþ me
                                
                                  That schal .I. seien of Asdrubardis wiff
                                
                                  þat att Cartage beraft hir self here liff
                                  Line 1400 
                                
                                  For whan sche sawe þa romeine wanne þe toune
                                
                                  Sche toke hir children al and swep adoune
                                
                                  In to þe fire and chase raþer to deye
                                
                                  þan any Romeyne did hire velanye
                                  Line 1404 
                                
                                  Haþ nouht Lucres sleyne hire self alas
                                
                                  Att Rome þare sche oppressed was
                                
                                  Of Tarquyne for hire þouht it was a schame
                                
                                  To leue whan þat sche had lost hire name
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                                  The .viij. Maidens of Milesye also
                                
                                  Haue sleyne hem self for drede and woo
                                
                                  Raþer þan folke of Gaule schold hem oppresse
                                
                                  Mo þan a þousand storis as .I. gesse
                                  Line 1412 
                                
                                  Couþe .I. nowe tell as toucheinge þis matier
                                
                                  Whan Abradas was sleyne his wif so dere
                                
                                  Hire selfe slowhe and lete hire blode to glide
                                
                                  In Abradas woundes brode and wide

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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 370
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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