The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[6-text p 518] It is aȝein þe processe of nature [[These lines are trans|posed in the MS.]] And home sche goþ a sorwsul creature [[These lines are trans|posed in the MS.]] ffor verray feere vnneþes may sche go Sche wepeþ and wayleþ a day or tuo Line 1348 And swowneþ þat it rouþe was to se But why it was to no wight tolde sche ffor out of toune was gon arneragus But to hir self sche sayde and spak þus Line 1352 In hire compleynt as ȝe schullen after heere Wiþ face pale and wiþ sorweful cheere [folio 168a] Allas quod sche on þe fortune I pleyne That vnwar hast wrapped me in þi cheyne Line 1356 ffor which þe eschape wot I no socour Saue oonly deþ oþer elles dishonour On of þese tuo bihoueþ me to chese But naþeles ȝit hadde I leuer to lese / Line 1360 My lif þan of my body to han a schame Oþer knowe my self fals oþer lese my name / And wiþ my deþ I may be quyte y-wys haþ þer nouȝt many a wyf er þis Line 1364 And many a mayden y-slayn hem self allas Raþir þan wiþ here bodyes don trespas And certes lo þise stories beren witnesse Whan xxx tyrauntz ful of cursednesse Line 1368 hadde slayn Phydon in athenes atte leste þey comaunded his douȝtres to areste / And bryngen hem byforn hem in dispyt Al naked to fulfille here foule delyt Line 1372 And in here fadres blod þey made hem daunce vpon þe pament god ȝeue hem meschaunce ffor whiche þese woful maydens ful of drede / Raþer þan þey wolde lese here maydenhede / Line 1376 þay pryuely ben stert in to a welle / And dreynt hemselue as þe bookes tell They of mesue lete enquere and seke Of lacedemye .L. maydens eeke Line 1380
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The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,
1868-[1869]

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