The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 485] 
                                  
                                  And sayde it lyth for it is raþer lik
                                
                                  An apparence maad by som magik
                                
                                  As Iogelours pleyen at þis festes grete
                                
                                  Of sondry þoughtes þus þey Iangle and trete
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                                  As lewed peple demeth comunly
                                
                                  Of þinges þat ben maad more subtily
                                
                                  Than þey can in her lewednes comprehende
                                
                                  They deemen gladly to the badder ende
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                                  And som of hem wondred of þe mirrour
                                
                                  That born was vp in to þe maister tour
                                
                                  How men might in hit suche þinges se
                                
                                  Anoþer answerd and sayd it might wel be
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                                  Naturelly by composiciouns
                                
                                  Of angels and of heigh reflexiouns
                                
                                  And sayde þat in Rome was such oon
                                
                                  They speeke of al-ceyt and Vitilyon
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                                  Of aristotle / þat writen in her lyues
                                
                                  Of queynte myrrours and prospectyues
                                
                                  As knowen þey þat han her bokes herd
                                
                                  And oþer folk haue wondred on þe swerd
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                                  That wolde passe þorughout euery þing [folio 152a] 
                                
                                  And fel in speche of Thelophus þe kyng
                                
                                  And of achilles for his queynte spere
                                
                                  For he couþe with hit boþe hele and dere
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                                  Right in such wyse as men may wiþ þe swerd
                                
                                  Of which right now ȝe haue ȝour seluen herd
                                
                                  They speeken of sondry hardyng of metal
                                
                                  And speken of medicines þer wiþ al
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                                  And how and whan it schulde harded be /
                                
                                  which is vnknowe / algat vnto me /
                                
                                  Tho speeken þey of Canacees ryng
                                
                                  And seyden alle / þat such a wonder þing
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                                  Of craft of rynges herd þey neuer noon
                                
                                  Sauf þat he moyses and kyng Salamon
                                
                                  Had a name of connyng in such art
                                
                                  Thus seyen þe peple on euery part

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 343
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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