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

                                  
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                                    The tree of Phillis / for hir Demophon
                                  
                                    The pleinte of Dianire / and of hermyon
                                  
                                    Of Adriane / and of ysiphilee
                                  
                                    The barayne Ile / stondynge in the See
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                                    The dreynte leandre / for his Erro
                                  
                                    The terys of Eleyne / and eke the wo
                                  
                                    Of Brixseyde / and of the Ladomea
                                  
                                    The crueltee / of the queene Medea
                                    Line 72 
                                  
                                    The litel children / hangyng by the hals
                                  
                                    ffor thy Iason / that was of loue so fals
                                  
                                    O Ypermystra / Penolopee / Alceste
                                  
                                    Youre wifhod / he comendeth with the beste
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                                    But certeinly / no word ne writeth he [folio 113a] 
                                  
                                    Of thilke wikke ensample / of Canacee
                                  
                                    That loued / hir owene brother synfully
                                  
                                    Of swiche cursed stories / I sey fy
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                                    Or ellis / of Tyro Appollonius
                                  
                                    How þat / the cursed kyng Antiochus
                                  
                                    Birafte his doghter / of hir maydenhede
                                  
                                    That is / so horrible a tale for to rede
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                                    When he hir threw / vp on the pauement
                                  
                                    And ther fore / he of ful auisement
                                  
                                    Nolde neuere write / in noon of his sermons
                                  
                                    Of swiche / vnkynde abhominacions
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                                    Ne I wol noon reherce / if þat I may
                                  
                                    But of my tale / how shal I doon this day
                                  
                                    Me were looth / be likned doutelees
                                  
                                    To Muses / þat been clepyd Pierides
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                                    Methamorphosios / woot what I mene
                                  
                                    But nathelees / I recche noght a bene
                                  
                                    Thogh I come after hym / with hawe bake
                                  
                                    I speke in prose / and lat hym rymes make
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                                    And with that word / he with a sobre cheere
                                  
                                    Bigan his tale / as ye shal after heere [[No break in the MS.]] 
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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 259
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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