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

                                
                                     [6-text p 512] 
                                  
                                  Touchynge the eyghte & twenty manciounnys
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                                  That longyn to the moone & swich folye
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                                  Swich book that spak meche of the operaciounnys
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                                  [As in oure dayes nys not worþe a flye] [[Sloane 1685]] 
                                
                                  ffor holycherchis feyth in oure beleue
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                                  Ne suffere noone illusiounnys vs to greue
                                
                                  And whan this bok was in remembraunce
                                
                                  Anoon for ioye his herte gan to daunce
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                                  And to hym self he seyde pryuyly
                                
                                  Myn brother schal been warshit [[rshit corrected]]  hastily
                                
                                  ffor I am sekyr that theere ben sciencis
                                
                                  By whiche men mak diuers apparencis
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                                  Sweche as these subtyle tregettourys pleye
                                
                                  ffor ofte at festis / haue I weel herd seye
                                
                                  That tregettouris with-inne an halle large
                                
                                  Haue mad come in a watyr & a barge
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                                  And in the halle rowyn vp & doun
                                
                                  Sumtyme haue semyd to come a grym lyoun
                                
                                  And sumtyme flouris sprynge as in a mede [folio 292b] 
                                
                                  Sumtyme a vine & grapis white & reede
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                                  Sumtyme a castel al of lym & stoon
                                
                                  And whan hym lykith woydede it anoon
                                
                                  Thus semede it to euery manys syȝt
                                
                                  Now thanne conclude I thus as ȝif I myght
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                                  At orlyonys sum old felaue I fynde
                                
                                  That hadde these monys manciounnys in mynde
                                
                                  Or othere Magyk naturel a-boue
                                
                                  He schulde weel make myn brothir han his love
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                                  ffor with apparens a clerk may make
                                
                                  To mannys syȝt that alle the rokkis blake
                                
                                  Of Brytaygne were voydede euerychon
                                
                                  And schippis by the brynke comyn & goon
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                                  And in swich forme endure a day or two
                                
                                  Thanne were myn brothir warsched of his woo
                                
                                  Thanne muste sche nedys holdyn hyre by-heste
                                
                                  Or ellis he schal schame hire at the leste

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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 342
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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