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 /
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                                  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 /
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                                  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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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 369
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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