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

                                
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                                  his tables colletanes forþ he brought
                                
                                  fful wel corrected ne þer lakked nouȝt/
                                
                                  Ne his collectes ne his expans ȝeres
                                
                                  Ne his rotes ne his oþer geres /
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                                  As ben his centrys and his argumentz
                                
                                  And his proporcions conuenientz
                                
                                  ffor his equacions in euery þing
                                
                                  And by his viij spere in his werkynge
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                                  he knew how fer Alnaþe was y-schoue
                                
                                  ffro þe hede of þilke fixe aries aboue [folio 167a] 
                                
                                  That in þe ixe spere considered is
                                
                                  fful subtilly he calkeþ al þis /
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                                  And whan he hadde founde his firste mansion
                                
                                  he knewe þe remenaunt by proporcion
                                
                                  And knewe þe arisyng of/ þe mone wel
                                
                                  And in whos face and terme euery del
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                                  And knew ful wel þe moones mansion
                                
                                  acordant to his operacion
                                
                                  And knew also his oþer obseruaunces /
                                
                                  ffor suche illusions and suche meschaunces /
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                                  As heþin folk vsed þilke dayes
                                
                                  ffor whiche no lenger maked he delayes
                                
                                  But þough his magik for a wike or tweye /
                                
                                  It semed as alle þe rokkes were aweye
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                                  Aurelyus which þat dispeyred is
                                
                                  Wheþer he schal han his loue or fare amys
                                
                                  Awayteþ night and day of þis myracle /
                                
                                  And whan he knewe þat þer was non obstacle
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                                  þat voyded were þise rokkes euerychon
                                
                                  Doun to þis maistres feet he felle anon
                                
                                  And seyde I woful wrecche aurelius
                                
                                  þanke ȝou lord and lady myn venus
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                                  That me han holpe fro my cares colde /
                                
                                  And to þe temple forþ his way haþ holde
                                
                                  Where he knewe he scholde his lady se
                                
                                  And whan he saugh his tyme anon right he

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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 367
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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