The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                     [6-text p 553] 
                                  
                                  Thus was I ones lerned / of a Clerk
                                
                                  Of that / no charge / I wil speke of oure werk
                                  Line 749 
                                
                                  ¶ Whan we ben there / as we shuln excersise
                                
                                  Oure eluyssh craft / we semen wonder wyse
                                
                                  Oure termes ben so clergeal / and queynte
                                
                                  I blowe the fyr / til that myn hert feynte
                                  Line 753 
                                
                                  What shulde I telle / eche proporcion
                                
                                  Of thynges / which that we / werche vp-on
                                
                                  As on fyue / or sexe vnces / may wel be
                                
                                  Of siluer / or sum other quantitee
                                  Line 757 
                                
                                  And bisie me / to telle ȝow the names
                                
                                  Of Orpement / brent bones / Iron squames
                                
                                  That in-to poudre / grounden be ful smal
                                
                                  And in an erthene pot / how put is al
                                  Line 761 
                                
                                  And salt I-put In / and also papere
                                
                                  Biforn these poudres / þat I speke of heere
                                
                                  And wel I-couered / with a laumpe of glas
                                
                                  And meche other thyng / which þat þere was
                                  Line 765 
                                
                                  As of the pot / and glasses enlutynge
                                
                                  That of the eyr / myght passe out no thynge
                                
                                  And of the esy fyr / and smert also
                                
                                  which þat was made / & of the care and woo
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                                  That we hadde / in oure maters sublymyng
                                
                                  And in amalgamyng / and calcenyng [folio 205a] 
                                
                                  And of quyk siluer / I-cleped Mercurie crude
                                
                                  ffor alle oure sleightes / we can nat conclude
                                  Line 773 
                                
                                  Oure Orpement / and sublimed Mercurie
                                
                                  Oure grounden litarge eke / on the porfurie
                                
                                  And eche of theise / vnces a certeyne
                                
                                  Nat helpeth vs / oure labour is in veyne
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                                  Ne eke oure spirites / ascencion
                                
                                  Ne oure maters / þat lyn al fix a-doun
                                
                                  Moun in oure werkynge / no thyng vs a-vaille
                                
                                  ffor loost is al oure labour / & trauaille
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                                  And al the cost / a twenty deuel weye
                                
                                  Is loost also / which we vp-on it leye

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 549
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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