And spake of medicínës therewithal, And how, and when, it shouldë harden’d be, Which is unknowen algate 3088 unto me. Then spakë they of Canacéë’s ring, And saiden all, that such a wondrous thing Of craft of ringës heard they never none, Save that he, Moses, and King Solomon, Hadden a name of conning 3089 in such art. Thus said the people, and drew them apart. Put natheless some saidë that it was Wonder to maken of fern ashes glass, And yet is glass nought like ashes of fern; But, for 3090 they have y-knowen it so ferne, 3091 Therefore ceaseth their jangling and their wonder. As sorë wonder some on cause of thunder, On ebb and flood, on gossamer and mist, And on all thing, till that the cause is wist.

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