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

                                
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                                  Certes suche crie ne lamentacione
                                
                                  Was of ladies maade whan þat Elyone
                                
                                  Was wonne & pirrus wiþ his streiht swerde
                                
                                  Whan he hente kinge Prian be þe berde
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                                  And sleyne him as seide Eneydos
                                
                                  As maaden all þe hennes in þe close
                                
                                  Whan þei hadd seye of Chaunteclere þe siht
                                
                                  Botte souereignely dame Pertelot schriht
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                                  Ful ludde þan dide Esdrubaldes wif
                                
                                  Whan þat hir husbonde hadde lost hir lif
                                
                                  And þat þe Romeynes hadde bernt Cartage
                                
                                  Sche was so ful of tourment & of rage
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                                  þat wilfully in-to þe fire sche stert
                                
                                  And bernede her self wiþ a stedfast hert
                                
                                  O . woful hennes riht so cride ȝe
                                
                                  As whan þat nero berned þe Cite
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                                  Of Rome Criden þe Senatours wifes
                                
                                  For þat her husbondes scholde lese here lyves
                                
                                  Wiþ-outen gulte Nero haþe hem sleyne
                                
                                  Now wil .I. turne to my tale a-ȝeine
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                                  This cely wedowe & here dowhters tuo
                                
                                  Herden þe hennes crie & maden wo
                                
                                  And oute att þe dore stert þei a none
                                
                                  And sawe þe fox to-warde þe groue gone [folio 224b] 
                                
                                  And bare vpon his bakke þe koke awaie
                                
                                  And Criden oute harrowe & walaweie
                                
                                  A ha þe fox & After hem þei Ranne
                                
                                  And ek wiþ staues mony anoþer manne
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                                  Ranne Colle oure dogge talbot & Garland
                                
                                  And Malkin wiþ here distaf in hire hand
                                
                                  Rann þe cowe & þe calf & eke þe verrey hogges
                                
                                  Sore aferde for berkeinge of þe dogges
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                                  And schowteinge of men & of wemmen eke
                                
                                  þei rann so her hert þei þouht to breke
                                
                                  The Dokes criden as men wold hem qwelle
                                
                                  þei ȝelden as fendes done in helle

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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 587
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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