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

[6-text p 555] The foure spirites / and the bodies seuene By ordre as I haue herd / my lord neuene Line 821 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 Line 825 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 Line 829 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 Line 833 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 Line 837 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 Line 841 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 Line 845 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 Line 849 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 Line 853 And of bodies / mollificacion And also / of her induracion
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The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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