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

                                
                                     [6-text p 553] 
                                  
                                  Thus was .I. lerned ones of a clerk
                                
                                  Of þat no charge .I. wil speke of oþer werke
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                                  Whan we bene þare as we schal exercise
                                
                                  Oure eluyssche craft we seme wonder wise
                                
                                  Oure termes buen so clergial and so wheinte
                                
                                  .I. blowe þe fire til þat myne hert feinte
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                                  What schold .I. tel of suche proporcion
                                
                                  Of þinges whiche þat we worche vppon
                                
                                  As .on. v. or .vj. vnce it maie wel be
                                
                                  Of siluer or of sum oþe[r] quantite
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                                  And bise me to tel ȝowe þe names
                                
                                  Of orpement bernt bones yren swames
                                
                                  þan in to pouder grounde bue ful smal
                                
                                  And in an erþen potte houe þat potte is al
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                                  And salt put inne and also papere
                                
                                  Be for þes pouders þat .I. speke of here
                                
                                  And wele ycouerd wiþ a lampe of glas
                                
                                  And of muche oþere þinge what þat þere was
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                                  And of þe potte and glas engluteinge
                                
                                  That of þe eyere myht passe no þing
                                
                                  And of the esye and smarte alsoo
                                
                                  Whiche þat was maad and of þe care and woo
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                                  þat we hadde in oure matiers sublimeinge
                                
                                  And amalgamynge and calcenynge
                                
                                  Of whike siluere y-cleped Marcurie crude
                                
                                  For all oure sleytes we can nouht conclude
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                                  Oure orpement and sublimed Mercurie [folio 161a] 
                                
                                  Oure grounde litage eke on þe perorforie
                                
                                  Of yche of þes vnces a certeine
                                
                                  Nouȝt helpeþ vs oure laboure is in veine
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                                  Ne eke owre spirites ascencion
                                
                                  Ne eke oure matiers þat lien al fix adoune
                                
                                  Mowe in oure werkeinge noþinge vs aveile
                                
                                  For lost is al oure laboure and traueile
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                                  And al þe cost in .xx. deuel waie
                                
                                  Is loste also whiche we on it leie

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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 403
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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