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

                                
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                                  The foure spirites / and the bodies seuene
                                
                                  By ordre as I haue herd / my lord neuene
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                                  The first spirit / quik siluer called is [Lichfield MS folio 175b] 
                                
                                  The secunde orpement / the thridde ywis
                                
                                  Sal armoniak / and the fourthe brymston
                                
                                  The bodies seuene / eek loo hem here anoon
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                                  Sol gold is / and luna siluer we threpe
                                
                                  Mars yren / Mecurie quik siluer we clepe
                                
                                  Saturnus leed / a[nd] Iupiter is tyn
                                
                                  And venus copir / by my fader kyn
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                                  This cursed craft / who so wol excercise
                                
                                  He shal no good han / that may suffise
                                
                                  ffor al the good / he spendeth ther aboute
                                
                                  he lese shal / ther-of haue I no doute
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                                  Who so that lust / to outen his folie
                                
                                  lat him come forth / and lerne multiplie
                                
                                  And euery man / þat hath auȝt in his cofre
                                
                                  lat him appere / and wexe a philosophre
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                                  Ascaunce that craft / is so light to lere
                                
                                  Nay nay god woot / al be he monk or frere
                                
                                  Preest or chanon / or eny other wight
                                
                                  Though he sitte at his book/ boþe day and nyght
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                                  In lernyng of this eluissh nyce lore
                                
                                  As is in veyne / and parde moche more
                                
                                  Is to lerne a lewed man / this sotilte
                                
                                  ffy spek not þer-of / for it wol not be
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                                  Al coude he lettrure / or coude he noon
                                
                                  As in effecte / he shal fynde it al oon
                                
                                  ffor bothe two / by my saluacion
                                
                                  Concluden in multiplicacion
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                                  yliche wel / whan þei han al ydo
                                
                                  This is to say / þe fayle bothe two
                                
                                  Ȝit forȝat I to moche rehersaille
                                
                                  Of watres corosif / and of lymaille
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                                  And of bodies / mollificacion
                                
                                  And also / of her induracion

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page #722
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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