The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  But it be / with his brother knowlechyng
                                
                                  How þat he / which þat first seyde this thyng
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                                  Of Philosophres / fader first was hermes
                                
                                  He seith / how þat the dragon doutelees
                                
                                  Ne dyeth nat. but if that he be slayn
                                
                                  With his brother/ and that is for to sayn
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                                  By the dragon / Mercurie and noon oother
                                
                                  He vnderstood / and Brymstoon by his brother
                                
                                  That out of sol / and Luna were ydrawe
                                
                                  And therfore seyde he / taak heede to my sawe
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                                  Lat no man bisye hym / this Art for to seche
                                
                                  But if þat he / thentencion and speche
                                
                                  Of Philosophres / vnderstonde kan
                                
                                  And if he do / he is a lewed man
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                                  ffor this science / and this konnyng quod he
                                
                                  Is of the secree / of the secretes pardee
                                
                                  ¶ Also / ther was a disciple of Plato
                                
                                  That on a tyme / seyde his maister to
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                                  As his book senior / wol bere witnesse
                                
                                  And this was his demande in soothfastnesse
                                
                                  Telle me the name / of the priuee stoon
                                
                                  ¶ And Plato answerde / vn-to hym anoon
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                                  Take the stoon / that Titanos men name
                                
                                  ¶ Which is that quod he? Magnasia is the same
                                
                                  Seyde Plato / ye sire / and is it thus?
                                
                                  This is / ignotum per ignocius
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                                  What is Magnasia / good sire I yow preye?
                                
                                  ¶ It is a water / that is maad I seye
                                
                                  Of elementes foure quod Plato
                                
                                  ¶ Telle me the roote / good sire quod he tho
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                                  Of that water / if it be youre wille
                                
                                  ¶ Nay nay quod Plato / certein that I nylle
                                
                                  The Philosophres / sworn were euerychoon
                                
                                  That they / sholden discouere it vn-to noon
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                                  Ne in no book it write / in no manere
                                
                                  ffor vn-to Crist / it is so lief and deere

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 570
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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