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The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[6-text p 607] of the trauailles / that oure lord crist suffred in prechyng/. [257] his werynesse in trauaillyng. hise tempt|acions whan he fasted /. hise longe wakynges / whan he preyde /. hise teeres / whan that he weepe / for pitee. of good peple /. [258] the wo / and the shame / and the filthe / that men seyden to hym /. of the foule spittyng/ that men spitte in his face /. of. the buffettes / that men yauen hym /. of the foule mowes / and of / the re|preues / that men to hym seyden /. [259] of the nayles / with whiche he was nayled to the croys /. and of al the remenant of his passion that he suffred for my synnes / and no thyng for his gilt [260] ¶ And ye shul vnder|stonde [¶ how in mannes synne / is / euery manere of ordre / or ordinaunce turned vp so doun] / that in mannes synne / is euery manere of ordre or ordinance / turned vp so doun [261] ¶ ffor it is sooth / that god and reson. and sensualitee / and the body of man / been ordeyned / that euerich / of thise foure thynges / sholde haue lordshipe / ouer that oother /. [262] as thus /. god sholde haue lordshipe ouer reson /. and reson ouer sensualitee /. and sensualitee ouer the body of man /. [263] but soothly / whan man synneth / al this ordre or ordinance / is turned vp so doun [264] ¶ And therfore thanne / for as muche as the reson of man / ne wol nat be subget ne obeisant to god that is his lord by right. ther|fore / leseth it the lordshipe / that it sholde haue / ouer sensualitee / and eek ouer the body of man /. [265] And why? ffor sensualitee rebelleth thanne agayns reson /. and by that wey / leseth reson the lordshipe ouer sensualitee / and ouer the body /. [266] for right as reson is rebel to god / right so / is bothe sensualitee / rebel to reson / and the body also [267] ¶ And certes this disordinance and this rebellion / oure lord Ihesu crist aboghte vp-on his precious body ful deere / and herkneþ in which wise / [268] ¶ ffor as muche thanne as reson / is rebel to god? ther|fore / is man worthy to haue sorwe / and to be deed /. [269] this suffred oure lord Ihesu crist for man / after that he hadde be bitraysed of his disciple / and distreyned and
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The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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