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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                                  But it be with his brothers knowleccheyng/
                                
                                  How þat he / which that first seid this thyng/
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                                  Of philisophres / fader was Hermes
                                
                                  He seith how that the Dragon doutles
                                
                                  Ne dyeth nat/ but yf that he be slayn
                                
                                  with his brother / and þat is for to seyn
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                                  By the dragon Mercurie / and noon other
                                
                                  He vnderstode / and brymstone by his brother
                                
                                  That out of Sol and luna / were ydrawe
                                
                                  And therfore seid he / take hede to my sawe
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                                  Let no man besy hym / þis arte for to seche
                                
                                  But yf that / þe entencion and speche/
                                
                                  Of Philisophres / vnderstonde can
                                
                                  And yf he do / he is / a lewde man
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                                  ffor this science / and this cunnyng koth he
                                
                                  Is of the secree / of secretes pardee
                                
                                  Also þere was a disciple of Plato
                                
                                  That on a tyme / seid his maister to
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                                  As his boke senior woll bere witnesse
                                
                                  And this was his demaund/ in sothfastnesse
                                
                                  Tell me þe name of þe priue stoon
                                
                                  And Plato answerd vn-to hym anoon
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                                  Take a stone / that Tytanus men name
                                
                                  Which is that koth he / magnasia is þe same
                                
                                  Seid plato / ya sir / and is it thus
                                
                                  This is ignotum per ignocius
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                                  What is magnasia / gode sir I you prey
                                
                                  Is it a water / þat is made I sey
                                
                                  Of elymentes .iiij. koth plato
                                
                                  Tell me þe rote gode sir koth he þe
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                                  Of that water / yf it be your will /
                                
                                  Nay nay koth Plato / certeyn þat I nyll
                                
                                  The philisophres sworn were euerychoon
                                
                                  That þey shold discouere it in-to noon
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                                  Ne in no boke it write in no manere
                                
                                  ffor vn-to crist/ it is so leef and dere

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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 569
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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