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

                                
                                  fful of degrees þe heighte of sexti pas
                                
                                  That whan a man was sette on o degree [VII. 110.] 
                                
                                  He let-it nouhte his felow for to see
                                  Line 1892 
                                
                                  Estwarde þere stoode a gate of marble white [VII. 109.] 
                                
                                  Westward riht stoode a-noþer in þe opposite.
                                
                                  And schortly to conclude suche a place
                                
                                  Was none in erþe and in so litel a space.
                                  Line 1896 
                                
                                  ffor in þe londe þere nas no crafti man [folio 24b] 
                                
                                  That Geomatrie or arce metrik can
                                
                                  Ne Purtreoure ne keruer of ymages
                                
                                  Thas Theseus ne ȝafe mete and wages
                                  Line 1900 
                                
                                  The Theatre to make and to deuise
                                
                                  And for to done his riht and sacrifice
                                
                                  He Estwarde haþ vpon þe gate aboue
                                
                                  In worschipe of venus goddes of loue
                                  Line 1904 
                                
                                  Done maken an Auter and an Oratorie
                                
                                  And in þe westwarde in Memorie
                                
                                  Of Marce he Maked haþe riht suche anoþer
                                
                                  Þat cost largeli of gold a foþer
                                  Line 1908 
                                
                                  And Northwarde in a toret on· þe walle
                                
                                  Of Alabastre white and rede Coralle
                                
                                  An oratorie riche for to se
                                
                                  In worschipe of Dyane of chastite
                                  Line 1912 
                                
                                  Haþe Theseus don wrouht in noble wise
                                
                                  Bot ȝite had .I. forgeten to deuise
                                
                                  Þe noble painteynge and þe purtres
                                
                                  The schappe þe countenance and þe figures
                                  Line 1916 
                                
                                  That weren in þese oratories þre
                                
                                  fferst in þe temple of venus maist þou see
                                
                                  Wrouhte in þe walle fu[l] pitouse to be-holde
                                
                                  The broken slepes. and þe sikes colde
                                  Line 1920 
                                
                                  The sacrede teres and þe weymenynge
                                
                                  The firy strokes of desireinge [VII. 59.] 
                                
                                  That loues seruantȝ in þis life enduren
                                
                                  The oþes þat here couenantz ensuren
                                  Line 1924 
                                
                                  Plesant and hope desire foolhardinesse [See VII. 55-6, &c.]

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Title: The Lansdowne 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,; 1867-1879.

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