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

                                
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                                  He bad his seruant. fecchen hym this thyng
                                
                                  And he al redy / was at his biddyng
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                                  And wente hym forth / and cam anon agayn
                                
                                  With this quyk siluer / soothly for to sayn
                                
                                  And toke thise Ounces thre / to the Chanoun
                                
                                  And he hem leyde / faire and wel adoun
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                                  And bad the seruant. coles for to brynge
                                
                                  That he anon / myghte go to his werkynge
                                
                                  ¶ The coles / right anon weren yfet
                                
                                  And this Chanon / took out a Crosselet
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                                  Of his bosom / and shewed it to the preest
                                
                                  This Instrument quod he / which þat thou seest
                                
                                  Taake in thyn hand / and put thy self ther Inne
                                
                                  Of this quyk siluer an Ounce / and heer bigynne
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                                  In the name of Crist. to wexe a philosofre
                                
                                  Ther been ful fewe / to whiche I wolde profre
                                
                                  To shewen hem / thus muche of my science
                                
                                  ffor ye shul seen / heer by experience
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                                  That this quyk siluer / wol I mortifye
                                
                                  Right in youre sighte anon / I wol nat lye
                                
                                  And make as good siluer / and as fyn
                                
                                  As ther is any / in youre purse or myn
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                                  Or elleswhere / and make it malliable
                                
                                  And elles / holdeth me / fals and vnable
                                
                                  Amonges folk/ for euere to appeere [folio 202b] 
                                
                                  I haue a poudre heer / þat coste me deere
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                                  Shal make al good / for it is cause of al
                                
                                  My konnyng / which þat I to yow shewen shal
                                
                                  Voyde youre man / and lat hym be ther oute
                                
                                  And shette the dore / whils we been aboute
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                                  Oure pryuetee / that no man vs espie
                                
                                  Whils that we werke / in this Philosophie
                                
                                  ¶ Al as he bad / fulfilled was in dede
                                
                                  This ilke seruant anonright out yede
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                                  And his Maister / shette the dore anon
                                
                                  And to hire labour/ spedily they gon

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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 561
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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