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

                                
                                     [6-text p 555] 
                                  
                                  //The foure spiritis & the bodyis seuene
                                
                                  By ordere As ofte herde I myn lord hem nemene
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                                  The fyrste spirit quik siluys callid is
                                
                                  The secunde orpemynt & the thredde I-wis
                                
                                  Sal Armonyak & the fourte brunston
                                
                                  The bodyis seuene lo hem ek here a-non
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                                  Sol gold is & luna syluyr whe treepe
                                
                                  Mars yryn. Mercurie quik siluyr we clepe
                                
                                  Saturnus led & Iupiter is tyn
                                
                                  And Venus Copir be myn fadir kyn
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                                  This cursede craft who so wele excercyse
                                
                                  He schal no good han that hym may suffyse
                                
                                  ffor al the good he spendyth theere aboute
                                
                                  He lese schal therof haue I no doute
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                                  Ho so that lystyth outyn his folye [folio 385a] 
                                
                                  Let hym come forth & lerne multeplye
                                
                                  And euery man that hat ought in his cofere
                                
                                  Lat hym apere & wexe a philysophere
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                                  Ascauns that craft is so lyght to lere
                                
                                  Nay nay god wot al be he monk or frere
                                
                                  Prest or chanoun or ony othir whit
                                
                                  Thow he sete at his bok day or nygh[t]
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                                  In lernynge of this eluyssch nyce loore
                                
                                  Al is in veyn & parde meche moore
                                
                                  To lerne a lewede man this sotylete
                                
                                  ffy spek nat therof for it wele nat be
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                                  And kunne he lettereure or cunne he non
                                
                                  As in effect he schal fynde it al oon
                                
                                  For bothe to be myn saluacioun
                                
                                  Concludyn as in multiplicacyoun
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                                  I-lyche weel / whan they han al I-do
                                
                                  This is to seyn they fayle bothe twe
                                
                                  // ȝit forgat I to make rehersayle
                                
                                  Of wateris coresif & of lemayle
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                                  And of bodyis mollyficacioun
                                
                                  And also of here induracioun

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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 547
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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