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

                                
                                  Thate none astate ensureþ for to bene wele
                                
                                  Now certes lorde to abide ȝowre presence
                                
                                  Here in þis temple of goddes clemence [(mentioned in II. 17.)] 
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                                  We haue b[e]ne waiteinge al þis fourtenyhte
                                
                                  Helpe vs lorde seþ it is in þi myhte
                                
                                  .I. wriche whiche þat wepeþ and weyleþ þus
                                
                                  Was whilom wif of Kinge Cappaneus [II. 28.] 
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                                  That starfe att Thebes cursed be þat dai
                                
                                  And alle we þat bene in þis array
                                
                                  And Maken all þis lamentacioune
                                
                                  We losten al oure hosbondes att þat towne.
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                                  While þat a sege þare abowte laie
                                
                                  And ȝit nowe þe olde Creon weilowaie [II. 31.] 
                                
                                  þat lord is nowe of Thebes Citee [II. 30.] 
                                
                                  ffulfilled of ire and iniquite [II. 31.] 
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                                  He for dispite and for his Tirannye
                                
                                  To done the dede bodies velanye
                                
                                  Of all oure lordes whiche þat han be slawe
                                
                                  Haþe al þe bodies on an hepe ydrawe
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                                  And wil not suffre hem be none assent [II. 31.] 
                                
                                  Neyþere to be beride neiþer be to brent
                                
                                  Bot makeþ houndes ete hem in despite
                                
                                  And wiþ þat word with-oute more respite [II. 33.] 
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                                  þei ffellen groffe and criden pytouslye
                                
                                  Haue on vs wrecched wemmen sum Mercie
                                
                                  And latt owre sorwe sinken in þin herte
                                
                                  ¶ This gentil Duc downe fro his courser sterte
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                                  With hert pitous whan he herd hem speke
                                
                                  Him þouhte þat his herte wolde breke
                                
                                  Whan he sawhe hem so pitee and so mate [II. 36-9.] 
                                
                                  That whilome weren of so grete astate
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                                  And in his armes he hem al vp hent
                                
                                  And hem comforteþ in ful goode entent
                                
                                  And swore his hoþe as he was trewe knyht
                                
                                  He wolde done so ferforþelie his miht
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                                  Vppon þe Tirant Creon hem al wreke

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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 28
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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