Particular sciénces for to learn— He him remember’d, that upon a day At Orleans in study a book he say 3311 Of magic natural, which his felláw, That was that time a bachelor of law, All 3312 were he there to learn another craft, Had privily upon his desk y-laft; Which book spake much of operatións Touching the eight and-twenty mansións That longë to the Moon, and such follý As in our dayës is not worth a fly; For holy church’s faith, in our believe, 3313 Us suff’reth none illusión to grieve. And when this book was in his rémembránce, Anon for joy his heart began to dance, And to himself he saidë privily; “My brother shall be warish’d 3314 hastily: For I am sicker
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