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

                                
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                                  What for his labour / and his hope of blisse
                                
                                  His woful herte / of penaunce hadde a lisse
                                
                                  ¶ Vp on the morwe / whan þat it was day
                                
                                  To Britayne / tooke they the righte way
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                                  [1Aur]elius / and this Magicien bisyde [Rats.]  [folio 160b] 
                                
                                  And been descended / ther they wolde abyde
                                
                                  And this was / as thise bookes me remembre
                                
                                  The colde / frosty seson of decembre
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                                  ¶ Phebus wax old / and hewed lyk laton
                                
                                  That in his hote declynacion
                                
                                  Shoon as the burned gold / with stremys brighte
                                
                                  But now in Capricorn / adoun he lighte
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                                  Where as he shoon ful pale / I dar wel seyn
                                
                                  The bittre frostes / with the sleet and reyn
                                
                                  Destruyed hath the grene / in euery yerd
                                
                                  Ianus sit by the fyr / with double berd [¶ Ianus biceps.] 
                                
                                  And drynketh / of his bugle horn the wyn
                                
                                  Biforn hym stant brawen / of the tusked swyn
                                
                                  And Nowel / crieth euery lusty man
                                
                                  ¶ Aurelius / al þat euere he kan
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                                  Dooth to this maister / cheere & reuerence
                                
                                  And preyeth hym / to doon his diligence
                                
                                  To bryngen hym / out of his peynes smerte
                                
                                  Or with a swerd / þat he wolde slytte his herte
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                                  ¶ This subtil clerk swich routhe hadde of this man
                                
                                  That nyght and day / he spedde hym that he kan
                                
                                  To wayten a tyme / of his conclusion
                                
                                  This is to seyn / to make illusion
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                                  By swich an apparence / or Iogelrye
                                
                                  I ne kan / no termes of Astrologye
                                
                                  That she and euery wight sholde wene and seye
                                
                                  That of Britayne / the Rokkes were aweye
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                                  Or ellis / were sonken vnder grounde
                                
                                  So at the laste / he hath his tyme yfounde
                                
                                  To maken his Iapes / and his wrecchednesse
                                
                                  Of swich / a supersticious cursednesse

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 367
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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