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

                                
                                     [6-text p 573] 
                                  
                                  Bot if it be wiþ his broþer knowelecheinge
                                
                                  Howe þat he wiche þat first seide þis þinge
                                  Line 1433 
                                
                                  Of philosophres fader was Ermes
                                
                                  Seiþe howe þat þe dragon douteles
                                
                                  Ne deyeþ not bot if he he sleine
                                
                                  Wiþ is broþer and þat is for to seyne
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                                  Be þe dragon Mercurie and none oþer
                                
                                  He vnderstode þat bromston were is broþere
                                
                                  þat oute of sol and luna were ydrawe
                                
                                  And þerfore seide he take hede to my sawe
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                                  Latt no man besy hime þis arte for to seche
                                
                                  Bot he þat þe entencion and speche
                                
                                  Of Philosofres vnderstonde kan
                                
                                  And if he doo he is a lewde man
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                                  For þis science and þis connynge quod he .
                                
                                  Is of secre of secretees parde [folio 169a] 
                                
                                  Also þere was a disciple of Plato
                                
                                  þat on a time seide his maister to
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                                  As his booke sonier wil bere wittnesse
                                
                                  And þis was his demaunde in soþefastnesse
                                
                                  Tel me þe name of þe priue stoone
                                
                                  And plato ansewerd vnto him anone
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                                  Take þat titanus men name
                                
                                  Whiche is þat quod he Magnesia is þe same
                                
                                  Seide Plato; ȝe sire and es it þus
                                
                                  þis is ignotum per ignocius
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                                  What is magnesia good sire .I. preie
                                
                                  It is a water þat is maad .I. seie
                                
                                  Of elementes foure quod plato
                                
                                  Tel me þe roches good sir quod he þo
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                                  Of þat water if it be ȝoure will
                                
                                  Naie Naie quod plato certeine þat .I. nyll
                                
                                  The philosophres were sworne euerychon
                                
                                  þat þei scholde discouere it to no mon
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                                  Ne in no booke it write in no manere
                                
                                  For vnto criste it is so leue and dere

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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 423
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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