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

                                
                                     [6-text p 554] 
                                  
                                  þer is also many anoþer þing/
                                
                                  þat is to oure crafte aperteynyng
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                                  þough I by ordre hem here ne reherse can
                                
                                  By cause þat I am a lewed man
                                
                                  ȝit wol I telle hem as þey come to mynde
                                
                                  Though I ne kan nat sette hem in here kynde
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                                  As boole armonyak verdegres Boras
                                
                                  And sondry vesseles made of erþe and glas
                                
                                  Oure vrinales and oure descensories
                                
                                  Violes creseletes and sublimatories
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                                  Concurbites and Alembykes eeke
                                
                                  And oþer swiche deere ynough a leeke
                                
                                  Nat needeþ it/ to rehersen hem alle
                                
                                  Wateres Rubysynge and boles galle
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                                  Arsynek Sal armonyak and Brymston
                                
                                  And herbes couþe I telle eek many oon
                                
                                  As Egrymoyne Valerian and lunarie
                                
                                  And oþer suche if þat me luste tarie
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                                  Oure laumpes brennyng boþe night and day
                                
                                  To bringe aboute oure craft if þat we may
                                
                                  Oure fornays eke of Calcynacion
                                
                                  And of watres albyficacion
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                                  vnslekked lym chalk and glaire of an ey
                                
                                  Poudres dyuers aisshes dong pisse and cley
                                
                                  Seryd pokettes Sal petre and vitriole
                                
                                  And diuerse fyres made of woode and cole
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                                  Salt tartre Alcaly and Salt preparat
                                
                                  And combust matieres and coagulat [folio 181b] 
                                
                                  Cley maad wiþ horses or mannes heer and oyle
                                
                                  Of tartre alym glas berme wort and argoyle
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                                  Rysalgar and oþer matieres enbykynge
                                
                                  And eek of oure matieres encorporynge
                                
                                  And eek of Siluer Citrynacion
                                
                                  Oure sementynge and fermentacion
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                                  Oure Ingotes testes and many mo
                                
                                  I wol ȝou telle as was me taught also /

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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 404
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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