The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  And seyde he lyeth for it is raþere lik
                                
                                  An apparence y-maad by som magyk
                                
                                  As Iogelours pleyen at þese festes grete /
                                
                                  Of sondry þoughtes þus þey Iangle and trete
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                                  As lewed peple demeþ communly
                                
                                  Of þinges þat been more maad subtily
                                
                                  Than þey can in here lewednesse comprehende /
                                
                                  They demen gladly to þe baddere ende
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                                  And some of hem wondren on þe mirour [folio 93b] 
                                
                                  That born was vp vnto þe maistre tour
                                
                                  how men might in it suche þinges se
                                
                                  Anoþer answerde and seyde it might wel be
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                                  Naturelly by composicions
                                
                                  Of aungels and of sleygh reflexions
                                
                                  And seyde þat in Rome was such oon
                                
                                  They speke of alocen and vitilion
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                                  And of aristotle þat writen in here lyues
                                
                                  Of queinte mirours and of perspectyues
                                
                                  As knowen þey þat han here bookes herde
                                
                                  And oþer folk han wondred on þe swerde
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                                  That wolde perce þurgh euery þing
                                
                                  And fille in speche of Thelophus þe king
                                
                                  And of achilles for his queinte spere /
                                
                                  ffor he couþe with it boþe hele and dere /
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                                  Right in swich wise as men may wiþ þe swerd
                                
                                  Of which right now ye haue youre seluen herd
                                
                                  They speken of sondry hardyng of metalle
                                
                                  And speke of medicynes þer wiþalle
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                                  And how and whanne it scholde harded be
                                
                                  Which is vnknowe algate vnto me /
                                
                                  Tho speeke þey of Canaces ryng
                                
                                  And seyden alle þat swich a wonder þing
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                                  Of craft of rynges herde þey neuere non
                                
                                  Saue þat he moyses and king Salomon
                                
                                  hadde a name of konnyng in swich art
                                
                                  Thus seyen þe peple and drawen hem a part

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 200
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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