The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  And ek he seyde that sumtyme there was a clerk at rome
                                
                                  A cardenale that hyȝt Ierome
                                
                                  That made a bok a-ȝen Iouynian
                                
                                  In whiche bok þere was ek Tertulan
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                                  Crisippus Tortula & Helowys
                                
                                  That was abbesse not fer from Parys
                                
                                  And ek the parabele of Salamon
                                
                                  Ouydis art & bokys many on
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                                  And alle these were boundyn In on volome
                                
                                  And euery day & nyȝt was hyse custome
                                
                                  Whan he hadde leyse[r] & vacacyoun
                                
                                  ffrom oþere wordely ocupacyoun
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                                  To redyn on hise bok of wekede wyuys [folio 220a] 
                                
                                  He knew of hem mo legendys & lyuys
                                
                                  Than ben of goode wyuys in the byble
                                
                                  ffor trostyth wel it is an Impossible
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                                  That any clerk schulde speke good of wyuys
                                
                                  But ȝif it be of holye seyntis lyuys
                                
                                  Ne of non othere woman neuere þe mo
                                
                                  Who peyntede þe lyoun tel me who
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                                  Bi god ȝif women haddyn wretyn storyis
                                
                                  As clerkis han with inne here oratoryis
                                
                                  They wolde a wrete of men more wekedenesse
                                
                                  Than al þe Mark of adam may redresse
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                                  The chylderyn of mercurye & of venus
                                
                                  Ben in hyre werkys wol contraryous
                                
                                  Mercurye louyth wysdom & science
                                
                                  And venus louyth riot & dispence
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                                  And for hire dyuerse dispocicioun
                                
                                  Eche fallyth in oþeris exsaltacyoun
                                
                                  And þus wot god Mercurye is desolat
                                
                                  In Pisses where Mercurye is exaltat
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                                  And venus fallyth where Mercurye is reysed
                                
                                  Therfore no woman of no klerk is preysed
                                
                                  The clerk whan he is old & may not do
                                
                                  Of venus werkys worth hyse olde scho

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 186
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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