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

                                
                                     [6-text p 515] 
                                  
                                  What for his labour & his hope of blys
                                
                                  His woful herte of penaunce hadde a lys
                                
                                  Vp on the morwe whan that it was day
                                
                                  To bryteyne toke they the ryȝte way
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                                  Aurelyus & the Magicyoun by syde
                                
                                  And been descendit there they wele vnbyde
                                
                                  And this was as the bokys me remembre
                                
                                  The colde frosty sesoun of decembre [[c corrected]] 
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                                  Phebus wex old & hewid lyk latoun
                                
                                  That in his hoote declynacioun
                                
                                  Schon as the burnet gold with streemys bryȝte
                                
                                  But now in Caprycorn adoun he lyghte
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                                  Wheere as he schon ful pale I dar weel seyn
                                
                                  The bittere frostis with the sleet & reyn
                                
                                  Distroyed hat the grene & euery ȝerd [[r altered]] 
                                
                                  Ianus sit by the fyr with double berd
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                                  And drynkyth of hyse bugle horn the wyn
                                
                                  By-forn hym stant braun / of the tuskyd swyn
                                
                                  An Nowel syngyth / eueuery lusty man
                                
                                  Aurelius in al that euere he can
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                                  Doth to his maystyr chier & reuerence
                                
                                  And preyeth hym to don his dilygence
                                
                                  To bryngyn hym out of hise peynys smerte
                                
                                  Or with a swerd that he wolde slytte his herte
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                                  This subtyl clerk swych routhe hadde of this man [folio 294a] 
                                
                                  That nygh[t] & day he spedde hym as he kan
                                
                                  To waytyn a tyme of his conclusioun
                                
                                  That is to seyne to makyn illusioun
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                                  By swich an apparens or iogilrye
                                
                                  I ne can no termys of astrologie
                                
                                  That sche & euery wygh[t] schulde wene & seye
                                
                                  That of Brytayne the rokkys were a-weye
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                                  Or ellys they were sunkyn vndyr grounde
                                
                                  So at the laste he hath his tyme I-founde
                                
                                  To make hise Iapis & hise wrechedenesse
                                
                                  Of swich a supersticious cursedenesse

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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 345
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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