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

                                
                                     [6-text p 564] 
                                  
                                  He bad his seruaunt fecche him his þinges
                                
                                  And he al redy wax at his biddynges
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                                  And went him forth and com anoon agayn
                                
                                  wiþ þis quyk siluer schortly for to sayn /
                                
                                  And took þese ounces þre to þe chanoun
                                
                                  And he it layde faire and wel a doun
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                                  And bad þe seruaunt coles for to bringe
                                
                                  That/ he anoon might go to his werkynge
                                
                                  The coles right anoon weren I-fett
                                
                                  And þis chanoun took out a croselett
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                                  Out of his bosom and schewed it þe prest
                                
                                  This instrument quod he which þat þou sest
                                
                                  Tak in þin hond and put þiself þer Inne /
                                
                                  Of þis quyksiluer an vnce and her bygynne
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                                  In þe name of crist to wax a philosophre /
                                
                                  Ther ben ful fewe whiche þat I wol profre
                                
                                  To schewe hem þus moche of my science
                                
                                  For ȝe schul seen heer by experience
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                                  That þis quiksiluer I wol mortifye
                                
                                  Right in ȝoure sight anoon wiþouten lye /
                                
                                  And make it as good siluer and as fyn
                                
                                  As þer is any in ȝoure purs or myn
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                                  Or elles wher and make it malleable /
                                
                                  And elles holdeth . me fals and vnable /
                                
                                  Amonges folk for euer to appeere / [folio 177a] 
                                
                                  I haue a pouder heer þat cost me deere
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                                  Schal make al good for it is cause of al
                                
                                  My connyng which þat I ȝou schewe schal
                                
                                  Voydith ȝoure man and let him be þer oute
                                
                                  And schet þe dore whils we ben aboute
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                                  Oure priuetee þat no man vs aspye /
                                
                                  whiles we werken in þis philosophie /
                                
                                  Al as he bad fulfilled was in dede /
                                
                                  This ilke seruaunt anoon right out ȝede /
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                                  And his maister schitte þe dore anoon
                                
                                  And to here labour speedily þai goon

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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 404
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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