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

                                
                                  That al þe peple of grece scholde speke
                                
                                  How creon was of Theseus seruede
                                
                                  As he þat had his deþe ful wele deseruede
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                                  And riht anone wiþ-owten more abode [II. 50.] 
                                
                                  His Baner he displeide and forþe rode.
                                
                                  To þebes-warde and al his hoste be-side [folio 13b] 
                                
                                  No nerre Athenes wolde he go ne ride [II. 49.] 
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                                  Ne take his ese fulli halfe a daie
                                
                                  Bot onward on his waie þat niht he laie
                                
                                  And sent a-none ypolita þe queene [II. 40-2.] 
                                
                                  And Emely hir ȝonge suster schene.
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                                  Vn to þe toune of Athenes to dwelle
                                
                                  And forþ he rideþ þer is no more to telle
                                
                                  ¶ The reede Statue of Marce with spere and targe
                                
                                  So schineþ in his whigte baner large
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                                  That al þe felde gleteren vp on a doune
                                
                                  And by his baner borne is his pynoune
                                
                                  Of gold ful riche whiche was ybete
                                
                                  The Mynataure whiche þat he wanne in Crete
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                                  Thus riht þis Duc þus ride þide þis conqueroure
                                
                                  And in his host of cheuallerie þe floure
                                
                                  Til þat he cam to Thebes and a-liht
                                
                                  flaire in a felde þer as he þouht to fiht [II. 53-76.] 
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                                  Bot schortely for to speken of þis þinge
                                
                                  Wiþ Creon whiche þat was of Thebes kinge
                                
                                  He fawht and slowhe him manly as a knyht
                                
                                  In pleine Bateile and put þe folke to flyht
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                                  And be asseut he wan þe Cite after
                                
                                  And rent adowne boþe wall and sparre and rafter
                                
                                  And to þe ladies he restored a-ȝeine
                                
                                  The bones of þeire frendes þat were sleyne
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                                  To done þe obsequies as was þo þe gise
                                
                                  Bot it were al to longe for to do-vise [II. 80-1.] 
                                
                                  The grete clamor and þe weymentynge
                                
                                  þat þe ladies maade att þe berneynge
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                                  Of þe bodies and þe grete honoure

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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 29
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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