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

                                
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                                  His tables tolletanes / forth he broght
                                
                                  fful wel corrected / ne ther lakked noght
                                
                                  Neither his collect ne his expans yeris
                                
                                  Ne hise rootes / ne hise othere geris
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                                  As been his centris / and hise argumentz
                                
                                  And hise proporcionels conuenientz
                                
                                  ffor hise equacions / in euery thyng
                                
                                  And by his .8. speere / in his wirkyng
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                                  He knew ful wel / how fer Alnath was shoue [folio 161a] 
                                
                                  ffro the heed / of thilke fixe Aries aboue
                                
                                  That in the .9. speere / considered is
                                
                                  fful subtilly/ he kalkuled al this
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                                  ¶ Whan he hadde founde / his firste mansion
                                
                                  He knew the remenaunt by proporcion
                                
                                  And knew the arisyng of his Moone wel
                                
                                  And in whos face / and terme / and euery del
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                                  And knew ful wel / the Moones mansion
                                
                                  Acordaunt / to his operacion
                                
                                  And knew also / hise othere obseruaunces
                                
                                  ffor swiche illusions / and swiche meschances
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                                  As hethen folk vseden / in thilke dayes
                                
                                  ffor which no lenger / maked he delayes
                                
                                  But thurgh his magyk for a wyke or tweye
                                
                                  It semed/ that alle the Rokkes were aweye
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                                  ¶ Aurelius / which þat yet despeired is
                                
                                  Wher he shal han his loue / or fare amys
                                
                                  Awaiteth nyght and day / on this myracle
                                
                                  And whan he knew / that ther was noon obstacle
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                                  That voyded were / thise Rokkes euerichon
                                
                                  Doun to his maistres feet he fil anon
                                
                                  And seyde / I woful wrecche Aurelius
                                
                                  Thonke yow lord / and lady myn Venus
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                                  That me han holpen / fro my cares colde
                                
                                  And to the temple / his wey forth hath he holde
                                
                                  Wher as he knew / he sholde his lady se
                                
                                  And whan he saw his tyme / anon right he

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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 368
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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