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 ...

                                
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                                  There is also / ful many a-nother thyng
                                
                                  That is vn-to oure craft / appertenyng
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                                  Though I be ordre / hem nat reherce can
                                
                                  By cause that I am / a lewed man
                                
                                  Ȝet wole I telle hem / as they come to mynde
                                
                                  Though I ne can nat / sette hem in here kynde
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                                  As Bole Armonyak / verdegres / Boras
                                
                                  And sundry vesselles / mad of erthe & glas
                                
                                  Oure Vrinales / and oure descensories
                                
                                  Violes / crosletȝ / and sublimatories
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                                  Cucurbitȝ / and alambikes eke
                                
                                  And othere suche / dere I-now a-leke
                                
                                  Nat nedeth it / for to reherce hem alle
                                
                                  Watres rubifyng / and Booles galle
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                                  Arsenyk / salarmonyak / and Brymston
                                
                                  And Erbes coude I telle eke / many oon
                                
                                  As Egremoyne / Valerian / and lymarie
                                
                                  And othere swich / if þat me list tarie
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                                  Oure laumpes brenne / bothe nyght & day
                                
                                  To brynge a-boute oure purpos / if we may
                                
                                  Oure fourneys eke of calcinacion
                                
                                  And of watres / albificacion
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                                  Vnslekked lym / Chalk / and gleir of an ey
                                
                                  Poudres diuerse / asshes / donge / pisse / & cley
                                
                                  Sered pottes / salpetir vitriole
                                
                                  And diuerse fyres made / of wode & cole
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                                  Sal tartre / Alkaly / and salt preparat
                                
                                  And combust matiers / and coagulat
                                
                                  Cley / mad with hors & mannes her / & oyle
                                
                                  Of Tartre / Alumglas / Berm / wort / and Argule
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                                  Rysalger / and oure matiers embityng [folio 205b] 
                                
                                  And eke of oure matiers / encorporyng
                                
                                  And of oure siluer / citrynacion
                                
                                  And of cementynge / and fermentacion
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                                  Oure Ingottes / testes / & manye moo
                                
                                  I wil ȝow telle / as was me taught also

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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 550
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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