The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 518] 
                                  
                                  It is ageyn the prosses of nature
                                
                                  And hom sche goth a sorweful criature
                                
                                  ffor verray fer onethe/ may sche go
                                
                                  Sche wepith waylyth al a day or two
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                                  And swounnyth that routhe it was to see
                                
                                  But whi it was to no wyȝt tolde schee
                                
                                  ffor out of tounne was goon arueragus
                                
                                  But to hire self sche spak & seyde thus
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                                  With pale face & with ful sorweful cheere
                                
                                  In hire compleynt as ȝe schal aftyr heere
                                
                                  ¶ Allas quod sche on the fortune I pleyne
                                
                                  That vndyr wrapped / hast me in thyn cheyne
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                                  ffor which to skape [[kap corrected]]  woot I no socour
                                
                                  Saue only deth / or ellys dishonour
                                
                                  Oon of these two / by-howith me to cheese
                                
                                  But na-theles ȝit haue I leuere to lese
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                                  Myn lyf than of myn body to han a schame
                                
                                  Or knowyn myn self [[el corrected]]  fals or lese myn name
                                
                                  And with myn deth I may been quit I-wis
                                
                                  Hat there nat manye a noble wyf er this
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                                  And manye a maydyn I-slayn hire self allas
                                
                                  rathere than with hire body don trespas
                                
                                  Ȝis certis lo these storyis bere witnesse
                                
                                  Whan thretty tirauntis ful of cursedenesse
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                                  Hadde slayn Phidoun in atthenes [[h altered]]  at the feste
                                
                                  They comaundit his doughtren for tareste
                                
                                  And bryngyn here [[first he]]  by-forn hym in despit
                                
                                  Al nakid to fulfylle his foule delyt
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                                  And in here fadyris blood they made hem daunce
                                
                                  Vp on the pauement god ȝeue hym myschance
                                
                                  ffor which these woful maydenys ful of drede [folio 295b] 
                                
                                  Rathere than thy wolde lese here maydynheede
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                                  They [[ey corrected]]  priuyly ben styrt in-to a welle
                                
                                  And drenkte hem seluyn as the bokys telle
                                
                                  ¶ They of Messene lete enquire & seke
                                
                                  Of Latedomye fifty madenys eke

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 348
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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