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

                                
                                     [6-text p 573] 
                                  
                                  But if it be wiþ his broþeres knowleching
                                
                                  how þat he which þat first seyde þis þing/
                                  Line 1433 
                                
                                  Of Philosophres fader was hermes /
                                
                                  he saiþ how þat þe dragon douteles
                                
                                  Ne dyeþ not but if he be slayn
                                
                                  Wiþ his broþer and þat is for to sayn
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                                  By þe dragon mercurie and non oþer
                                
                                  he vnderstood þat bremston were his broþer
                                
                                  þat on of Sol and luna were y-drawe
                                
                                  And þerfore sayde he tak heed to my sawe
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                                  lat no man busye him þis art for to seche
                                
                                  But he þat þe entencion and þe speche
                                
                                  Of philosophres vnderstonde can
                                
                                  And if he do he is a lewed man
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                                  ffor þis science and þis connyng quod he /
                                
                                  Is of þe secre of Secrees parde
                                
                                  Also þer was a disciple of Plato
                                
                                  That on a tyme sayde his mayster to
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                                  As his book Somer wil bere witnesse
                                
                                  And þis was his demaunde in soþfastnesse
                                
                                  Telle me þe name of þe pryuy stoon
                                
                                  And plato answerde vnto him anon
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                                  Tak þe stoon þat titanos men name
                                
                                  Which is þat quod he magnasia þe same /
                                
                                  Seyde Plato ȝee Sire and is it þus
                                
                                  This is ignotum per ignocius
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                                  What is magnasia goode sire I pray
                                
                                  It is a water þat is maad I say [folio 190b] 
                                
                                  Of elementes foure quod Plato
                                
                                  Tel me þe roche goode sire quod he þo
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                                  Of þat water if it be ȝour wille
                                
                                  Nay nay quod Plato certeyn þat I nylle.
                                
                                  þe Philosophres were sworn echon
                                
                                  þat þey scholde discouere it to no mon
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                                  Ne in no book it write in no manere
                                
                                  ffor vnto crist it is so leef and deere

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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 423
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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