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

                                
                                     [6-text p 564] 
                                  
                                  He bad his seruaunt / fechyn hym this thyng
                                
                                  And he al redy was at his bedyng
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                                  And wente hym forth & cam a-non a-geyn
                                
                                  With this quik syluyr sot[h]ly for to seyn
                                
                                  And tok these ouncis thre to the Chanoun
                                
                                  And hem  [[l first h]] leyde fayre & weel a doun
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                                  And bad the seruaunt colis for to brynge
                                
                                  That he a-non myght go to hese werkynge
                                
                                  The colis right a-non weren I-fet
                                
                                  And this Chanoun tok out a croslet
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                                  Of his bosum & schewed it the prest
                                
                                  This instrument wheche that thow sest
                                
                                  Take in thyn hand / & put thyn self ther-inne
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                                  Of this quiksiluir [an vnce and here be-gynne] [[Sloane 1685, lf 173: half the line scralcht out in Camb. MS.]] 
                                
                                  In name of cryst to wexe a philysophere
                                
                                  There ben but fewe to whiche that I wolde profere
                                
                                  To schewyn hem thus meche of myn science
                                
                                  ffor ȝe schul sen here be experience
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                                  That this quik siluyr I wele mortifye
                                
                                  Rygh in ȝoure sighte a-non with-outyn lye
                                
                                  And make it as good siluer & as fyn
                                
                                  As there is ony in ȝoure pors or myn
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                                  Or ellis where & make it malliable
                                
                                  And ellis heldith me fals & vn-stable
                                
                                  Amongis folk for euere to appere
                                
                                  // I haue a poudere here that coste me ful dere
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                                  Schal make al good for it is cause of al
                                
                                  Myn kunnyng whiche that I ȝow schewe schal
                                
                                  Voydith ȝoure man & lat hym be ther oute
                                
                                  And schet the dore whil we ben a-boute
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                                  Oure pryuyte that no man vs espye
                                
                                  Whilis that we werke in this philosephie
                                
                                  Al as he bad fulfyld was in dede [folio 389a] 
                                
                                  This ilke seruaun[t] a-non ryght out ȝeede
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                                  And his maystyr schette the dore a-non
                                
                                  And to here labour spedyly they gon

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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 556
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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