The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 512] 
                                  
                                  þis boke whiche spak muche of þis operacions
                                
                                  Toucheinge þe .xxviiij. Mancions
                                
                                  That longeþ to þe mone and suche folye
                                
                                  As in oure daies ne is not worþe a flye
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                                  For holy cherche seiþe in owre beleue [folio 146b] 
                                
                                  Ne suffureþ none illusione vs to greue
                                
                                  And whan þis booke was in remembraunce
                                
                                  Anone for ioye he gan to daunce
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                                  And to him self seide priuely
                                
                                  Mi broþer schal be warisched hastely
                                
                                  For .I. am seker þat þere be sciencis
                                
                                  Be whiche men make diuers apparences
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                                  Whiche as þe subtile tregitours pleine
                                
                                  For oft att festes herd .I. seine
                                
                                  þat tregetours wiþ in an hal large
                                
                                  Haue maad in come water and a barge
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                                  And in þe hall rowe vp and doune
                                
                                  Som time haþe semed a grime lyoune
                                
                                  [And som tyme floures spryngin in A mede
                                
                                  Sum tyme wyne & grapis white & rede [Harl. 7333 folio 84b:2]  [[ Not in Harl. 1758, leaf 132, or Reg. 17 D xv, leaf 183, back.]] ]
                                
                                  Som tim a castel al of lyme and stone
                                
                                  And whan him liked voide it anone
                                
                                  Thus semed it to euery mannes siht
                                
                                  Nowe þan conclude .I. þus if þat .I. myht
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                                  At orlyance some olde felawe finde
                                
                                  þat had þe mones mancions in mynde
                                
                                  Oyþer magik naturel a-boue
                                
                                  He scholde wele mak my broþer haue his loue
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                                  For wiþ apparens a man maie make
                                
                                  To mannenes siht þat al þe rokkes blake
                                
                                  Of B[r]eteigne were went euerychone
                                
                                  And þat schippes be þe brinke myht comen and gone
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                                  And in suche forme endure a ȝere or tuo
                                
                                  Then were my broþer waresched of his wo
                                
                                  Then most sche nedes knowe hire be-hest
                                
                                  Or elles he schamen hire schal att þe leste

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 363
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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