The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 520] 
                                  
                                  And seyde my body atte leste way
                                
                                  Ther schal no wight defoulen if I may
                                
                                  what schold I mo ensamples her of sayn
                                
                                  Seþþen so many han hemseluen slayn
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                                  wel raþer þan þey wolde defouled be /
                                
                                  I wol conclude þat it is best for me
                                
                                  To slen myself þan be defouled þus
                                
                                  I wol be trewe vnto aruegarius
                                  Line 1424 
                                
                                  Or rather sle myself in som manere
                                
                                  As dede Democionis douȝter deere
                                
                                  By cause sche wolde nought defouled be /
                                
                                  O cedasus it is ful gret pite
                                  Line 1428 
                                
                                  To reden how þy doughteren dyed allas
                                
                                  That slowe hemself for suche maner caas
                                
                                  As gret a pite was it or wel more
                                
                                  The theban mayden þat for nichonore
                                  Line 1432 
                                
                                  hir-seluen slough right for such maner wo
                                
                                  Anoþer Theban mayden dede right so
                                
                                  For oon of macidone had hir oppressed
                                
                                  Sche with hire deþ maydenhede redressed
                                  Line 1436 
                                
                                  what schal I sayn of Niceratis wif
                                
                                  That for such caas biraft hir self hir lyf
                                
                                  how trewe eek was cito alcebiades
                                
                                  his loue. þat rather to dyen ches
                                  Line 1440 
                                
                                  Than for to suffre his body vnburied be
                                
                                  Lo which a wif was alceste quod sche
                                
                                  what saiþ omer of good penolope
                                
                                  Al grece knoweþ of hir chastite
                                  Line 1444 
                                
                                  Par di of laodomya is writen þus
                                
                                  That whan out of Troye was Protheselaus
                                
                                  No lenger wol sche lyue after his day
                                
                                  The same of noble porcia telle I may
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                                  wiþoute brutes kynde sche myȝt not lyue
                                
                                  To whom sche had al hool hir herte ȝyue
                                
                                  The parfyt wyfhod of artemesye
                                
                                  honoured is þurgh al þe Barbarie [folio 160a] 
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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 361
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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