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

                                
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                                  His tables colletanes forþ he brouht
                                
                                  Ful wele corrected for þere lakked nouht
                                
                                  Ne his collectes ne his expans ȝeres
                                
                                  Ne his rotes ne his oþere geres
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                                  As biene is centres and his argumentez
                                
                                  And his proporcione conuenientez
                                
                                  For his equacions in euery þinge
                                
                                  And be his .viij. spere in his wirkinge
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                                  He knewe howe fere alnaþe was. yschoue
                                
                                  From þe heued of þilke fix aries aboue
                                
                                  þat in þe .ix. spere considerd is
                                
                                  Ful subtilli he calleþ al þis
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                                  And whan he had fonde his first mancion
                                
                                  He knewe þe remenant be proporcion
                                
                                  And knewe þe ariseinge of þe mone wele
                                
                                  And in whos face and terme euery dele
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                                  And knewe ful wele þe mones mansion
                                
                                  Accordant to his operacion
                                
                                  And k[n]ewe al so his oþer obseruauncez
                                
                                  For suche illusions and suche meschaunces
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                                  As eyþen folke vside þilke daies
                                
                                  For whiche no longer Maked he delaies
                                
                                  Bott þoruhe his magik for a weke or tweie
                                
                                  It semede þat al þe rokkes were a waie
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                                  Aurelius whiche þat despayred is
                                
                                  Weþer he schal haue his or fare amys
                                
                                  Awaiteþ nyht and daie of þis miracle
                                
                                  And whan he knewe þer was none obstacle
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                                  þat voided were þes rokkes euerychon
                                
                                  Doune to his maistres fete he fel a none
                                
                                  And seide .I. wooful wriche Aurelius
                                
                                  Thank ȝowe lord and lady myne Venus
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                                  That me haue holpe fro my .Cares colde
                                
                                  And to þe temple forþe his weie haþe holde
                                
                                  Where ke knewe he scholde his lady se
                                
                                  And whan he sawhe his time anone riht he

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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 367
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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