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

                                
                                     [6-text p 572] 
                                  
                                  For any witt þat men han now on dayes
                                
                                  They may wel chiteren as doon þese iayes
                                  Line 1397 
                                
                                  And in here termes sette lust and peyne
                                
                                  But to her purpos schul þay neuer atteyne [folio 180b] 
                                
                                  A man may lightly lerne if he haue ought
                                
                                  To multiplie and bringe his good to nought
                                  Line 1401 
                                
                                  Lo such a lucre is in þis lusty game/
                                
                                  A mannes mirþe it wol torne in to grame /
                                
                                  And empte also grete and heuy purses
                                
                                  And make folk to purchace curses
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                                  Of hem þat han her good þer-to I-lent
                                
                                  O fy for schame þay þat haue be brent
                                
                                  Allas can þay not fle þe fuyres hete
                                
                                  ȝe þat it vsen I rede ȝe it lete
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                                  lest ȝe lesen al for bet þan neuer is late
                                
                                  Neuer to þriue were to long a date /
                                
                                  Though ȝe prolle ay ȝe schul it neuer fynde
                                
                                  Ȝe ben as bolde as is bayard þe blynde
                                  Line 1413 
                                
                                  That blundreþ forþ and peril casteth noon
                                
                                  he is as bold to renne a-gayn a stoon
                                
                                  As for to go bysides in þe wey /
                                
                                  So fare ȝe þat multiplie I sey
                                  Line 1417 
                                
                                  If þat ȝoure yȝen can nought seen aright
                                
                                  loke þat ȝoure mynde lakke nought his sight
                                
                                  For þough ȝe loke neuer so brode and stare /
                                
                                  Ȝe schul nought wynne vpon þat chaffare /
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                                  But wasten al þat þay may rape and renne
                                
                                  wiþdrawe þe fuyr lest it so faste brenne
                                
                                  Medleþ no more wiþ þat art I mene /
                                
                                  For ȝif ȝe doon ȝoure þrift is goon ful clene
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                                  And right as swithe I wol ȝow telle heere
                                
                                  what þat þe philosophres sein in þis mateere /
                                
                                  ¶ lo þus saiþ arnold of þe newe toun
                                
                                  As his Rosarie maketh mencioun
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                                  He saith right þus wiþouten eny lye
                                
                                  Ther may no man mercury mortifye

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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 412
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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