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

                                
                                     [6-text p 572] 
                                  
                                  ffor ony witte þat men han now a dayes
                                
                                  þey may wel chitre and Iangle as don þis Iayes
                                  Line 1397 
                                
                                  And in here termes sette lust and peyne
                                
                                  But to here purpos schul þey neuer atteyne
                                
                                  A man may lightliche lerne if he haþ ought
                                
                                  To multiplye and brynge his good to nouȝt
                                  Line 1401 
                                
                                  lo such a lucre is in þis lusty game
                                
                                  A mannes merþe it wol torne alle to grame
                                
                                  And empte also grete and heuye purses
                                
                                  And make folk to purchacen curses
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                                  Of hem þat han þerto here good y-lent
                                
                                  O fy for schame þey þat haue be brent
                                
                                  Allas can þey nat fle þe fyres hete
                                
                                  ȝe þat it vsen I rede ȝe it lete
                                  Line 1409 
                                
                                  lest ȝe lese al for bet þan neuer is late
                                
                                  Neuer to þriue were to longe a date
                                
                                  þough ȝe prolle ay ȝe schulle it neuer fynde
                                
                                  ȝe ben as bolde as is bayard þe blynde
                                  Line 1413 
                                
                                  þat blundreth forþ and peril casteþ he non
                                
                                  he is as bold to renne a-gayn a stoon
                                
                                  As for to go bysydes in þe weye
                                
                                  So fare ȝe þat multiplie I seye
                                  Line 1417 
                                
                                  If þat ȝoure yȝen may not seen aright
                                
                                  lokeþ þat ȝoure mynd lakke nought his sight
                                
                                  ffor þough ȝe loke neuer so brode and stare /
                                
                                  ȝe schulle nat wynne a myte in þat chaffare
                                  Line 1421 
                                
                                  But wasten al þat ȝe may Rappe and renne
                                
                                  Wiþdrawe þe fir lest it so faste brenne [folio 190a] 
                                
                                  Medleþ nomore wiþ þat art I mene
                                
                                  ffor if ȝe doon ȝour þrift is gon ful clene /
                                  Line 1425 
                                
                                  And right as swithe I wol ȝou telle heere
                                
                                  What þat þe philosophres sein in þis matere
                                
                                  lo þus seiþ arnold of þe newe toun
                                
                                  As his Rosarie makeþ mencioun
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                                  he seiþ right þus wiþouten eny lye
                                
                                  þer may no man mercurie mortifie

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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 422
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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