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

                                
                                  That noon estat assureth to ben weel
                                
                                  And certus lord to abiden ȝoure presence
                                
                                   [[a later 'here' in margin]] Ther in þe temple of þe goddesse Clemence
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                                  we han ben waytynge al þis fourtenight
                                
                                  Now helpe vs lord syn it is in þy might
                                
                                  I wrecche which þat wepe and waylle þus
                                
                                  was whilom wyf to kyng Capaneus
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                                  That starf at Thebes. cursed be þat day
                                
                                  And alle we þat ben in þis array
                                
                                  And maken alle þis lamentacioun
                                
                                  we leften alle oure housbondes at þe toun
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                                  whil þat þe sege. þer aboute lay
                                
                                  And ȝet þe olde Creon welaway
                                
                                  That lord is now of thebes þe citee
                                
                                  Fulfilde of Ire and of Iniquite
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                                  He for despyt and for his Tyrannye
                                
                                  To do þe deede bodyes vilonye
                                
                                  Of alle oure lordes which þat ben I-slawe
                                
                                  Haþ alle þe bodies on an heep y-drawe
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                                  And wol not suffren hem by noon assent
                                
                                  Nother to ben y-buried nor I-brent
                                
                                  But makeþ houndes ete hem in despite
                                
                                  And with þat word withoute more respite
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                                  They fillen gruf and criden pitously [folio 13b] 
                                
                                  haue on vs wrecched wommen som mercy
                                
                                  And lat oure sorwe synken in thyn herte
                                
                                  This gentil duke doun from his courser sterte/
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                                  with herte pitous whan he herde hem speke
                                
                                  him þoughte þat his herte wolde breke
                                
                                  whan he seyh hem so pitous and so maat
                                
                                  That whilom weren of so gret estat
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                                  And in his armes he hem alle vp hente
                                
                                  And hem conforteþ in ful good entente
                                
                                  And swor his oth as he was trewe knight
                                
                                  he wolde do so ferforþly his might
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                                  vpon þe tyraunt Creon hem to wreke

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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 28
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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