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

                                
                                     [6-text p 572] 
                                  
                                  For any witte þat men haue nowe a dayes
                                
                                  þei maie wele Chitter and ganglen as done þes Iayes
                                  Line 1397 
                                
                                  And in her termes sett lust and peine
                                
                                  Bot to here purpos schal þei neuere atteyne
                                
                                  A man may lyhtlyche leren if he haue ouhte
                                
                                  To multeply and bringe his good to nouht
                                  Line 1401 
                                
                                  Lo suche a locre is in þis lusty game
                                
                                  A mannes merþe it wil torne al to gram
                                
                                  And empte also grete and heuy porces
                                
                                  And make folke to purchasen curses [folio 168b] 
                                
                                  Of hem þat han þere-to here good ylente
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                                  O fy . for schame þei þat haue be brente
                                
                                  Alas Can þei nouht flye þe fires hete
                                
                                  ȝe þat it vsen .I. rede ȝowe it lete
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                                  Lest ȝe lees al · for bet þan neuer is late
                                
                                  Neuer to þriue were to longe a date
                                
                                  þouhe ȝe prolle aye ȝe schol it neuer finde
                                
                                  ȝe bene als bolde as is bayer þe blynde
                                  Line 1413 
                                
                                  þat blunderþ forþ and peril casteþ he none
                                
                                  He is as bolde to renne aȝeine a stone
                                
                                  As for to go be side in þe weie
                                
                                  So fare ȝe þat multeplie .I. seie
                                  Line 1417 
                                
                                  If þat oure yȝen kan not seen a riht
                                
                                  Lookeþ þat ȝoure mynde lake nouht ȝoure siht
                                
                                  For þouhe ȝe looke neuere so brode and stare
                                
                                  ȝe schol nouht wynne a myte of þat chaffare
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                                  Bot wasten al þat ȝe maie rappe and rinne
                                
                                  Wiþ-drawe þe fire lest it so fast birne
                                
                                  Medeleþe no more wiþ þat art .I. mene
                                
                                  For ȝif ȝe done ȝoure þreft . is gone ful clene
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                                  And riht als swiþe .I. wil ȝoue to here
                                
                                  What þat þe Philosophres seine in þis matiere
                                
                                  Lo þus seiþe Arnalde of þe Newtoune
                                
                                  As his rosarie makeþ Mencioune
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                                  He seiþe riht þus wiþ outen any . lye
                                
                                  There maie no man Mercuri Mortifie

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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 422
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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