The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  That none astate assureth to be wele
                                
                                  And certes lord to abide your presence
                                
                                  Here in this temple of goddes clemence
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                                  We haue be wayting all þis fourtenyght
                                
                                  Now helpe vs lord setth it is in thy might
                                
                                  I wrecch which þat wepe and wayll þus
                                
                                  Whilom was wyf to kyng Capaneus
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                                  That starf at Thebes cursed be the day
                                
                                  And all we þat ben in this array
                                
                                  And make all this lamentacion
                                
                                  We lost all our housbondes at þat toun
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                                  While þat þe sege there aboute lay
                                
                                  And yit now the olde creon weleaway
                                
                                  That lord is now of Thebes þe Citee
                                
                                  ffulfilled of ire and iniquitee
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                                  he for despyte and tyrannye
                                
                                  To done the dede bodyes velanye
                                
                                  Of all our lordes which þat ben slawe
                                
                                  He hath all bodies on an hepe drawe
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                                  And will nat suffre by none assent
                                
                                  Neyther to be buried ne ybrent
                                
                                  But make houndes ete hem in despite
                                
                                  And with þat worde without more respite
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                                  They fell grovelyng and cried pitously
                                
                                  haue on vs wrecched wommen som mercy
                                
                                  And lete our sorow synk in thyne hert
                                
                                  This gentyll duk from his corsour stert
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                                  With hert pitous whan he herde hem speke
                                
                                  hym thoght þat his hert wold breke
                                
                                  When he saw hem so pitous and so mate
                                
                                  That somtyme were of so grete astate
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                                  And in his armes he hem all hent
                                
                                  And hem comforted in full gode entent
                                
                                  And swore his oth as he was trewe knight
                                
                                  he wold done so ferforth his might
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                                  Vp-on this Tiraunt Creon hem to wreke [Eg. 2726 folio 13a]

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 28
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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