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

                                
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                                  His tables tollitanes forþ he brought
                                
                                  Ful wel corrected ne þer lakked nought
                                
                                  Neiþer his collect ne his expans yeeres
                                
                                  Ne his rootes ne his oþer geeres /
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                                  As ben his centris & his argumentis
                                
                                  And his proporcionels conuenientis
                                
                                  For her equaciouns in euery þing /
                                
                                  And by his þre speeres in his worching
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                                  he knew ful wel how fer alluath was schoue
                                
                                  For þe heed of þilk fixe aries aboue
                                
                                  That in þe fourþe speere considred is
                                
                                  Ful subtilly he calkild al þis
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                                  whan he had founde his firste mancioun
                                
                                  He knew þe remenaunt by proporcioun
                                
                                  And knew þe arisyng of þis moone wel
                                
                                  And in whos face and terme and euery del
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                                  And knew ful wel þe moones mancioun
                                
                                  Acordaunt to his operacioun
                                
                                  And knew also his other obseruaunces
                                
                                  For suche illusiouns and suche meschaunces
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                                  As hethen folk vsed in þilke dayes
                                
                                  For which no lenger maked he delayes
                                
                                  But þurgh his magik for a wike or tweye
                                
                                  It semed þat þe rokkes were aweye
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                                  Aurilius which ȝet dispayred is
                                
                                  wher he schal haue his loue or fare amys
                                
                                  Awayteþ night and day on þis miracle
                                
                                  And whan he knew þat þer was noon obstacle [folio 158a] 
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                                  That voyded were þese rokkes euerich oon
                                
                                  Doun to his maistres feet he fel anoon
                                
                                  And sayd I wrecched woful aurilius
                                
                                  Thanke ȝou lord and my lady Venus
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                                  That me han holpe fro my cares colde /
                                
                                  And to þe temple his way forþ he haþ holde
                                
                                  wher as he knew he schold his lady se
                                
                                  And whan he saugh his tyme anoon right he

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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 357
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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