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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                                  The foure spiriteȝ / & the bodies seuene
                                
                                  By ordre / as ofte I herd my lord nemene
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                                  The first spirit / quyk siluer called is
                                
                                  The secund Orpement / the thridde I-wys
                                
                                  Sal Armonyak / and the ferthe Bremston
                                
                                  The bodyes seuene eke / lo hem heere a-noon
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                                  Sol / gold is / and Luna siluer we threpe
                                
                                  Mars Iren / Mercurie quyksiluer we clepe
                                
                                  Saturnus led / and Iuppiter is Tyn
                                
                                  And venus Coper / by my fader kyn
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                                  This cursed craft / who so wil excersise
                                
                                  He shal no good haue / þat him may suffise
                                
                                  ffor al the good / he spendeth there-a-boute
                                
                                  he lese shal / ther-of haue I no doute
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                                  who so þat listeth outren / his folie
                                
                                  lat him come forth / and lerne multiplie
                                
                                  And euery man / þat hath ought in his cofre
                                
                                  lat him appiere / and wexe a Philosophre
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                                  Ascauns that craft / is so light to lere
                                
                                  Nay nay god wot / al be he Monke or frere
                                
                                  Preest or Chanon / or any other wyght
                                
                                  Though he sitte at his book / bothe day & nyght /
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                                  In lernynge / of this eluyssh / nyce lore
                                
                                  Al is in veyn / and perde mechel more
                                
                                  To lerne a lewed man / this subtilitee
                                
                                  ffy / spek nat ther-of / for it wil nat be
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                                  And cone he letterure / or cone he noon
                                
                                  As in effect / he shal fynde it al oon
                                
                                  ffor bothe two / by my sauacion
                                
                                  Concluden / in multiplicacion
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                                  I-like wel / whan they han al I-do
                                
                                  This is to seyn / they faillen bothe two
                                
                                  Ȝet forgat I / to make rehersail
                                
                                  Of watres Corosif / and of lymail
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                                  And of bodies / mollificacion
                                
                                  And also / of here induracion [[The rest of Dd. 4. 24 is gone.]]

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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 551
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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