The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 555] 
                                  
                                  The foure spiritȝ and þe bodies seuen
                                
                                  By ordre as ofte herd I my lord neuen
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                                  The firste spirit quyksiluer called is
                                
                                  The secound orpiment þe þridde I-wis
                                
                                  Sal armoniac. and þe ferþe bremstoon
                                
                                  The bodies seuen eek lo hem heer anoon
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                                  Sol gold is and luna siluer we þrepe
                                
                                  Mars yren. Mercurie quyksiluer we clepe
                                
                                  Saturnus leed and Iubiter is tyn [folio 173a] 
                                
                                  And Venus coper by my fader kyn
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                                  This cursed craft who so wol excercise
                                
                                  he schal no good han þat may him suffise /
                                
                                  For al þe good he spendeþ þer aboute
                                
                                  he lese schal þer of haue I no doute /
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                                  who-so þat list/ outen his folye
                                
                                  let him come forþ and lerne multiplie
                                
                                  And euery man that haþ ought in his cofre
                                
                                  Let him appiere and wexe a philosofre
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                                  Ascauns þat craft is so light to lere /
                                
                                  Nay nay god wot al be he monk or frere
                                
                                  Prest Chanoun or eny oþer wight
                                
                                  Though he sit at his book boþe day and night
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                                  In lernyng of þis eluysch nice lore
                                
                                  Al is in vayn and parde moche more
                                
                                  Is to lerne a lewed man þis subtilte
                                
                                  Fy spek not þerof. for it it wil not be
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                                  Al couþe he letterure or couþe he noon
                                
                                  As in effect he schal fynd it al oon
                                
                                  For boþe tuo by my sauacioun
                                
                                  Concluden in multiplicacioun
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                                  I-liche wel whan þay han al y-do /
                                
                                  This is to sayn þay fayle boþe tuo
                                
                                  Ȝet forȝat I to moche rehersayle
                                
                                  Of watres corosif and of lymayle
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                                  And of bodyes mollificacioun
                                
                                  And also of here enduracioun

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 395
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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