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

                                
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                                  Oilles / Ablucions / and metal fusible
                                
                                  To tellen al / wolde passen any Bible
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                                  That owher is / wherfore as for the beste
                                
                                  Of alle thise names / now wol I me reste
                                
                                  ffor as I trowe / I haue yow toold ynowe
                                
                                  To reyse a feend / al looke he neuer so rowe
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                                  ¶ A nay lat be / the Philosophres stoon
                                
                                  Elixer clept./ we sechen faste echoon
                                
                                  ffor hadde we hym / thanne were it siker ynow
                                
                                  But vn-to god of heuene / I make avow
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                                  ffor al oure craft whan we han al ydo
                                
                                  With al oure sleighte / he wol nat come vs to
                                
                                  He hath maad vs spenden muchel good
                                
                                  ffor sorwe of which / almoost we wexen wood
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                                  But that good hope / crepeth in oure herte
                                
                                  Supposynge / though we sore smerte
                                
                                  To be releeued / by hym afterward
                                
                                  Swich supposyng and hope / is sharpe and hard
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                                  I warne yow wel / it is to seken euere
                                
                                  That futur temps / hath maad men disseuere
                                
                                  In trust ther-of / from al þat euere they hadde
                                
                                  Yet of that Art they kan nat wexen sadde
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                                  ffor vn-to hem / it is a bitter sweete
                                
                                  So semeth it for nadde they but a sheete
                                
                                  Which þat they myghte wrappe hem Inne at nyght
                                
                                  And a brat to walken Inne by day lyght
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                                  They wolde hem selle / and spenden on the craft
                                
                                  They kan nat stynte / til no thyng be laft
                                
                                  And eueremoore / where þat euere they goon
                                
                                  Men may hem knowe / by smel of Brymstoon
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                                  ffor al the world / they stynken as a goot
                                
                                  Hir sauour / is so rammyssh and so hoot
                                
                                  That though a man / a Mile from hem be
                                
                                  The sauour wole infecte hym truste me
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                                  And thus by smel / and threedbare array
                                
                                  If þat men liste / this folk they knowe may

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 553
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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