The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 353] 
                                  
                                  And eek þer was som tyme a clerk in Rome /
                                
                                  A Cardinal þat highte seint Ierome
                                
                                  That made a book aȝein Iouynian
                                
                                  In which book eeke þer was Terculan
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                                  Crisippus Trocula and helowys
                                
                                  That was abbesse nat fer fro Parys
                                
                                  And eek þe parables of Salomon
                                
                                  Ovides art and bokes many oon
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                                  And alle þise were bounde in oo volume
                                
                                  And euery night and day was his custume
                                
                                  Whan he hadde leysyr and vacacioun
                                
                                  ffrom oþer worldly occupacion
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                                  To reden in þis book of wikked wyues
                                
                                  he knew of hem mo legendes and lyues
                                
                                  Than ben of goode wyues in þe bible /
                                
                                  ffor trusteþ wel it is an impossible
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                                  That ony clerk wole speken good of wyues
                                
                                  But if it be of holy seintes lyues
                                
                                  Ne of non oþer wommen neuer þe mo
                                
                                  Who peynted þe lyoun tel me who
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                                  By god if wommen hadden writen stories
                                
                                  As clerkes han wiþinne here oratories
                                
                                  They wolde haue writen of men more wickednesse
                                
                                  Than alle þe marke of adam may redresse
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                                  The children of mercurie and venus
                                
                                  Ben in here werkynge contrarious
                                
                                  Mercurie loueþ wisdam and science /
                                
                                  And venus loueþ ryot and dispence /
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                                  And for here diuerse disposicion
                                
                                  Eche falleþ in oþres exaltacion
                                
                                  As þus god wot mercurie is desolat
                                
                                  In Piscis. where venus is exaltat
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                                  And venus falleþ þer mercurie is reised
                                
                                  Ther-fore no womman of no man is preysed
                                
                                  The clerk whan he is olde and may not do
                                
                                  To Venus werk nought worþ his olde scho [folio 113b]

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 232
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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