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

                                
                                  That all þe poeple of grece scholde speke
                                
                                  How Creon was of Theseus y-serued
                                
                                  As he þat hadde his deþ ful wel deserued
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                                  And right anon wiþouten more abod
                                
                                  His baner he displaied and forth rood
                                
                                  To Thebes-ward and al his host biside
                                
                                  No nerre Athenes wolde he go ne ride
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                                  Ne take his ease fully half a day
                                
                                  But onward on his way þat night he lay [folio 14b] 
                                
                                  And sente anon ypolita þe queene
                                
                                  And Emelye hir ȝonge suster scheene
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                                  Vnto þe toun of Athenes to dwelle
                                
                                  And forþ he ritte þer nys namore to telle
                                
                                  The rede Statue of Mars with spere and targe
                                
                                  So schineþ in his white baner large
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                                  That alle þe feelde gliteren vp and doun
                                
                                  And by his baner born is his pynoun
                                
                                  Of gold ful riche in which þer was y-bete
                                
                                  The Mynataur which þat he wan in Grece
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                                  Thus rit þis duk þus rit þis conquerour
                                
                                  And in his host of Chiuallerie þe flour
                                
                                  Til þat he come to Thebes and alight
                                
                                  ffaire in þe feeld þer as he þought to fight
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                                  But schortly for to speken of þis þing
                                
                                  With Creon which þat was of Thebes king
                                
                                  He faught and slough him manly as a knight
                                
                                  In pleyn bataile and putte þe folk to flight
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                                  And by asseut he wan þe Cite after
                                
                                  And rente adoun boþe wall and sparre and rafter
                                
                                  And to þe ladies he restored ageyn
                                
                                  The bones of here frendes þat were slayn
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                                  To don obsequies as was þo þe gyse
                                
                                  But it were all to longe to deuyse
                                
                                  The grete clamour and þe waymentyng
                                
                                  That the ladys made atte brennyng
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                                  Of þe bodies and þe gret honour

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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 29
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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