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

                                
                                  Beaute and ȝouþe baudery and richesse
                                
                                  Charmes and sorcery lesynges and flatery
                                
                                  Dispense busynes and Ielousy
                                  Line 1928 
                                
                                  That werud of ȝolo guldes a gerland
                                
                                  And a cukkow sittyng on hire hand
                                
                                  Festes instrumentȝ carols and daunces
                                
                                  Lust and array and al þe circumstaunces /
                                  Line 1932 
                                
                                  Of loue which I rekned and reken schal
                                
                                  Ech by oþer / were peynted on þe wal
                                
                                  And mo þan I / can make of mencioun
                                
                                  For sothly al þe mount of Setheroun
                                  Line 1936 
                                
                                  Ther Venus hath hir principal dwellyng [folio 26b] 
                                
                                  was schewed on þe wal here portrayng
                                
                                  wiþ alle þe Gardyn and al þe lustynes
                                
                                  Nought was forȝete þe porter ydelnes
                                  Line 1940 
                                
                                  Ne Narcisus þe fayr of ȝore agon
                                
                                  Ne ȝet þe foly of kyng Salomon
                                
                                  Ne eek þe strengþe / of him hercules
                                
                                  Thenchauntementȝ of Medea and Cerces
                                  Line 1944 
                                
                                  Ne of turnus of which þe hard fuyry corage
                                
                                  The riche Cresus caytif in seruage
                                
                                  Thus may we see þat wisdom and riches
                                
                                  Beaute ne sleight strengþe ne hardynes
                                  Line 1948 
                                
                                  Ne may wiþ venus holde champartye
                                
                                  For as sche lust þe world þan may sche gye
                                
                                  lo al þis folk I-caught were in hire trace
                                
                                  Til þay for wo fuloften sayde allas
                                  Line 1952 
                                
                                  Sufficeþ þis ensample oon or tuo
                                
                                  And þough I couþe reken a þousend mo
                                
                                  The statu of venus glorious for to see
                                
                                  was naked fletyng in þe large see
                                  Line 1956 
                                
                                  And fro þe nauel doun al couered was
                                
                                  with wawes grene as bright as eny glas
                                
                                  A citole in hire right hond hadde sche
                                
                                  And on hir heed ful semely on to see
                                  Line 1960 
                                
                                  A rose garland ful swete and wel smellyng

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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 56
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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