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

                                
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                                  He bad his seruant / fecchen him þis þing
                                
                                  And he al redy / was at his bidding
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                                  And wente him forth / and com anoon ageyn
                                
                                  with this quicsiluer / shortly for to seyn
                                
                                  And toke thise vnces thre / to the Chanoun
                                
                                  And he it leide / fayre and wel adoun
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                                  And bad the seruaunt / coles for to bringe
                                
                                  That he anoon / myghte go to his worchinge
                                
                                  The coles right anoon / were yfette
                                
                                  And this Chanon / toke out a crosselette
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                                  Of his bosome / and shewed it the preest
                                
                                  This Instrument quod he / which þat þou seest
                                
                                  Tak in thin hond / and put þi self þerynne
                                
                                  Of þis quic siluer an vnce / and here begynne
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                                  In the name of crist to wexe a philosophre
                                
                                  Ther ben ful fewe / whiche þat I wolde profre
                                
                                  To shewe hem thus moche / of my science
                                
                                  ffor ȝe shull see / here by experience
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                                  That þis quicsiluer / I wol mortefie
                                
                                  Right in ȝoure sight / anon withoute lie
                                
                                  And make it as good siluer / and as fyn
                                
                                  As ther is eny in ȝoure purs / or in myn
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                                  Or elliswhere / and make it malleable
                                
                                  And ellis hold me / fals and vnable
                                
                                  Amonges folc / euere to appere
                                
                                  I haue a powder here / þat coste me dere
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                                  Shal make al gold / for it is cause of all
                                
                                  My cunnynge / which that I ȝow shewe shall [Lichfield MS folio 179b] 
                                
                                  Voydeth ȝoure man / and lat him be þer oute
                                
                                  And shitte the dore / whiles we ben aboute
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                                  Oure priuete / that no man // vs espie
                                
                                  1whiles we werken / in this philosophie1 [[1_1 over an erasure]] 
                                
                                  Al as he bad / fulfilled was in dede
                                
                                  This ilke seruaunt / anoon right out ȝede
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                                  And his mayster / shette the dore anoon
                                
                                  And to her labour / speedly they goon

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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 #731
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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