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

                                
                                  fful of degrees / the heighte of sixty paas
                                
                                  That whan a man / was set on o degree
                                
                                  He letted noght his felawe for to see
                                  Line 1892 
                                
                                  ¶ Estward ther stood a gate / of Marbul whit
                                
                                  Westward / right swich another / in the oposit
                                
                                  And shortly to concluden / swich a place
                                
                                  Was noon in erthe / as in so lite a space
                                  Line 1896 
                                
                                  ffor in the lond / ther was no crafty man [folio 26a] 
                                
                                  That Geometrye / or Ars metrik kan
                                
                                  Ne purtreyour / ne keruere of ymages
                                
                                  That Theseus / ne yaf mete and wages
                                  Line 1900 
                                
                                  The Theatre / for to maken and deuyse
                                
                                  And for to doon / his ryte and sacrifise
                                
                                  He Estward hath / vp on the gate aboue
                                
                                  In worship of venus / goddesse of loue
                                  Line 1904 
                                
                                  Doon maad an Auter / and an oratorie
                                
                                  And on the westward / in memorie
                                
                                  Of Mars / he maked hath right swich another
                                
                                  That coste largely / of gold a fother
                                  Line 1908 
                                
                                  And Northward / in a touret on the wal
                                
                                  Of Alabastre whit and reed Coral
                                
                                  An oratorie / riche for to see
                                
                                  In worshipe / of Diane of chastitee
                                  Line 1912 
                                
                                  Hath Theseus / doon wroght in noble Wise
                                
                                  ¶ But yet hadde I forgeten / to deuyse
                                
                                  The noble keruyng / and the purtreitures
                                
                                  The shape / the contenance / and the figures
                                  Line 1916 
                                
                                  That weren / in thise oratories thre
                                
                                  ¶ ffirst / in the temple of Venus / maystow se
                                
                                  Wroght on the wal / ful pitous to biholde
                                
                                  The broken slepes / and the sykes colde
                                  Line 1920 
                                
                                  The sacred teerys / and the waymentynge
                                
                                  The firy strokes / of the desirynge
                                
                                  That loues seruantz / in this lyf enduren
                                
                                  The othes / that hir couenantz assuren
                                  Line 1924 
                                
                                  Plesance / and hope / desir / foolhardynesse

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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 55
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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