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

                                
                                     [6-text p 556] 
                                  
                                  Oyles absolucioun / & metal fusible
                                
                                  To tellyn al wolde passyn any bible
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                                  That ower is / wherefore as for the beste
                                
                                  Of alle [[word scratcht out]]  these namys now wele I me reste
                                
                                  ffor as I trowe I haue ȝow told I-nogh
                                
                                  To reyse a fend al loke he neuere so rogh
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                                  // A nay lat be the philisopheris stoon
                                
                                  Elixer clepid / we sekyn faste echon
                                
                                  ffor hadde we hym we were sekyr I-nogh
                                
                                  But on to god of heuene I make a wow
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                                  ffor al oure craft whan we han al I-do
                                
                                  And al oure sleyghte he wele nat come vs to
                                
                                  He hath I-mad vs spende mechil good
                                
                                  ffor sorwe of whiche almost  [[word scratcht out]]  we wexe wood
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                                  But that good hope crepith in oure herte
                                
                                  Supposynge euere thow we sore smerte
                                
                                  To be releuyd by hym aftyrward / [folio 385b] 
                                
                                  Swich supposynge & hope is scharp & hard
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                                  I warne ȝow wel it is to sekyn euere
                                
                                  That future temps that made men to disseuere
                                
                                  In trust therof from al that euere they hadde
                                
                                  ȝit of that art they can not wexe sadde
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                                  ffor vn-to hem it is a bittyr swete
                                
                                  So semyth it for ne hadde they but a schete
                                
                                  Whiche that they myghte wrappe hem in a nyght
                                
                                  And a bakke for to walke in be day light
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                                  They wolde hem selue / & spendyn on this craft
                                
                                  They can not stynte til no thyng be laft
                                
                                  And euere more where that euere they goon
                                
                                  Men may hem knowe by smel of bronston
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                                  ffor al the world they stynkyn as a got
                                
                                  Here sauour is so rammysch & so hot
                                
                                  That thow a man [[some letters scratcht out]]  from hem a myle bee
                                
                                  The sauour wele enfecte hem trustyth me
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                                  Lo thus be smellynge & thredbare aray
                                
                                  ȝif that men lyste these folk knowe may

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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 548
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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