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

[6-text p 520] And seyde / my body / at the leeste way Ther shal no wight defoulen if I may ¶ What sholde I mo ensamples / her of sayn Sith that so manye / han hem seluen slayn 1420 Wel rather / than they wolde defouled be I wol conclude / that it is bet for me To sleen my self than ben defouled thus I wol be trewe / vn to Arueragus 1424 Or rather sle my self in som manere As dide / democienis doghter deere By cause / þat she wolde nat defouled be ¶ O Cedasus / it is ful gret pitee 1428 To reden / how thy doghtren deyde allas That slowe hem self for swich maner cas ¶ As greet a pitee was it or wel moore The Theban mayden / that for Nychanore 1432 Hir seluen slow / right for swich manere wo ¶ Another Theban mayden / dide right so ffor oon of Macedonye / hadde hire oppressed She with hir owene deeth / hir maydenhed redressed 1436 ¶ What shal I seyn / of Nyceratis wyf That for swich cas / birafte hir self hir lyf ¶ How trewe eek / was to Alcebiades His loue / that rather for to dyen chees 1440 Than for to suffre / his body vnburyed be [folio 163a] ¶ Lo which a wyf / was Alceste quod she ¶ What Omer / of goode Penolopee Al Grece / knoweth of hir chastitee 1444 ¶ Pardee of Laodomya / is writen thus That whan at Troye / was slayn Protheselaus No lenger wolde she lyue / after his day ¶ The same / of noble Porcia telle I may 1448 With oute Brutus / koude she nat lyue To whom she hadde / al hool hir herte yeue ¶ The parfit wifhod / of Arthemesye Honoured is / thurgh al the Barbarye 1452
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The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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