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

                                
                                     [6-text p 519] 
                                  
                                  On whiche they wolde doon here lecherye
                                
                                  But was theere noon of al that cumpaynye
                                
                                  That sche nas slayn & with a good [[first god]]  entente
                                
                                  Ches rathere for to deye / than assente
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                                  To been oppressed of hire maydynhede
                                
                                  Whi schulde I thanne to deye been en drede
                                
                                  ¶ Loke ek the  [[ty corrected]] tyraunt aristoclides
                                
                                  That louede a mayden / hyghte stymphabides
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                                  Whan that hire fadyr slay was on a nyght
                                
                                  On to dyane temple goth sche ryȝt
                                
                                  And hente the emage in hire armys two
                                
                                  ffrom which I-mage wolde sche nat go
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                                  No whygh[t] myghte hire handys of it a-race
                                
                                  Tyl sche was slayn ryȝt in the selue place
                                
                                  ¶ Now sythe that maydenys /  [[ad cor.]] haddyn swich dispit
                                
                                  To been defoyled with manys foule delyt
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                                  Weel oghte a wyf [[f corrected]]  rathere hyre selue slee
                                
                                  Than been defoyled as it semyth mee
                                
                                  What schal I seye of hasdrubales wyf
                                
                                  That at cartage be-rafte hire self hire lyf
                                  Line 1400 
                                
                                  Whan [['that' scratcht out]]  sche say that romaynys wan the tounn
                                
                                  Sche tok hire chyldere alle & skypte a-doun
                                
                                  In-to the fer & ches rathere to deye
                                
                                  Than ony romayn dede hire vilanye [[n altered]] 
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                                  ¶ Hath not lucresse I-slayn hire self allas
                                
                                  At rome whan sche oppressed [[o. pres corrected]]  was
                                
                                  Of Tarquyn for hire thoughte it was a schame
                                
                                  To lyuyn whan sche hadde lost hire name
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                                  ¶ The seuene maydenys of Melesye also
                                
                                  Han slayn hem self for verray drede & wo
                                
                                  rathere than folk of gaule hem schulde opperesse
                                
                                  Mo than a thousent storyis as I gesse
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                                  Coude I now telle as touchynge this mateere [folio 296a] 
                                
                                  ¶ Whan Hadrabate was slayn his wyf so deere
                                
                                  Hire selvyn slow / & leet hire blood to glyde
                                
                                  In Hadrabis woundis deepe & wyde

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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 349
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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