The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                  
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                                    The tree of phillis for hir demefon
                                  
                                    The pleinte of Dianyre and of Ermyon
                                  
                                    Of Adriane and of ysiphilee
                                  
                                    The barayn ysel stondeynge in þe see
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                                    The dreynt leandre for his erro
                                  
                                    The teres of Eleyne and eke þe wo
                                  
                                    Of brixseide and of þe ladomya
                                  
                                    The cruelte of quene Medea
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                                    The litil childern hongeinge be þe hals [folio 66a] 
                                  
                                    ffor þi Iason þat was of loue fals
                                  
                                    Of ypnistra Penelope Alceste
                                  
                                    Ȝoure wifehode he commendeþ wiþ þe beste
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                                    Bot certeynly no worde writeþ he
                                  
                                    Of þilke wilke ensample of Canace
                                  
                                    Þat loued hir owen broþer sinfully
                                  
                                    Of suche cursed stories .I. saie fye
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                                    Or elles of Tiro Appolonius
                                  
                                    How þat þe cursed kinge Anthiochus
                                  
                                    Beraft his douhter of hir maydenhede
                                  
                                    That is so orrible a tale for to rede
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                                    Whan he hire  [[? yrewe]] þrewe þoruhe þe pament
                                  
                                    And þer-for he of ful avisement
                                  
                                    Nolde neuer write in none of his sermones
                                  
                                    Of whiche vnkinde abhominaciones
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                                    Ne .I. ne wil none reherce if þat .I. maie
                                  
                                    Bot of my tale . howe schal .I. done þis daie
                                  
                                    Me were loþe be likned douteles
                                  
                                    To muses þat men clepen pieriedes
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                                    Methamorphoseos woote what .I. mene
                                  
                                    Bot natheles .I. recche nouȝt a bene
                                  
                                    Þowhe .I. come after him wiþ halve bake
                                  
                                    .I. speke in prose and lat him rimes make
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                                    And wiþ þat worde he wiþ a sobre chere
                                  
                                    Began his tale as ȝe schal after here.

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 157
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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