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

                                
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                                  Oyles ablucion / and metal fusible
                                
                                  To tellen al / wolde passen eny bible
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                                  That ougher is / werfore . as for the beste
                                
                                  Of alle þise names / now wol I me reste
                                
                                  ffor as I trowe / I haue ȝow told ynogh
                                
                                  To reisen a feend / loke he neuere so rogh [Lichfield MS folio 176a] 
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                                  A nay lat be / thy philosophres stoon
                                
                                  Elixir cleped we / sechen faste echoon
                                
                                  ffor had we him / than were we siker ynow
                                
                                  But vn-to god / of heuene I make a vow
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                                  ffor al oure craft / whan we haue al y-do
                                
                                  And al oure sleighte / he wol not come vs to
                                
                                  he hath vs made / spende moche good
                                
                                  ffor sorwe of which / almost wexe wood
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                                  But that good hope / crepeth in oure herte
                                
                                  Supposinge euere / thogh we sore smerte
                                
                                  To be releued / by him afterward
                                
                                  Supposing and hope / is sharp and hard
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                                  I warne ȝow wel / it is to seken euere
                                
                                  That future temps / hath made men disseuere
                                
                                  In trust ther of / from al þat euere þei hadde
                                
                                  ȝit of that art / þei coude not wexe sadde
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                                  ffor vn to hem / it is a bitter swete
                                
                                  So semeth it / for ne had þei but a shete
                                
                                  which þei myghte / wrappe hem in a nyght
                                
                                  And a bak to walken in / by day light
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                                  They wolde hem selle / and spenden on the craft
                                
                                  They can not stinte / til no thing be laft
                                
                                  And euere more / where þat euere þei goon
                                
                                  Men may hem knowe / by smel of brimstoon
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                                  ffor al the world / þei stynken as a goot
                                
                                  he[r] sauour is / so rammyssh and so hoot
                                
                                  That though a man / from hem a myle be
                                
                                  The sauour wol infecten him trusteth me
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                                  Loo þus bi smellyng / and thred bare aray
                                
                                  Ȝif that men liste / this folk þei knowe may

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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 #723
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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