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

[6-text p 627] noon oother man [480] ¶ The thridde is / whan he rekketh nat. though men holde hym noght worth ¶ The ferthe is / whan he nys nat sory of his humiliacion [481] ¶ Also the humilitee of mouth /. is in .iiij. thynges ¶ In [¶ Of .iiij. thynges / of / humilitee of mouthe] attempree speche ¶ And in humblesse of speche ¶ and whan he biknoweth with his owene mouth /. that he is swich / as hym thynketh that he is in his herte ¶ Another is /. whan he preiseth the bountee of another man /. and no thyng ther of amenuseth / [482] ¶ Humilitee eek in [¶ Of .iiij. maneres of/ humilitee in werkes] werkes is in .iiij. maneres ¶ The firste is / whan he putteth othere men biforn hym ¶ The seconde is / to chese the loweste place ouer al ¶ The thridde is / gladly to assente to conseil [483] ¶ The ferthe / is to stonde gladly / to the award of hise souereyns /. or of hym / that is in hyer degree /. certein this is a greet werk of humylitee.

¶ Sequitur de Inuidia .

[484]

After Pride wol I speken / of the foule synne of Enuye [¶ What Enuye is secundum Philosophum et secundum Augustinum] which is / as by the word of the Philosophre / sorwe / of oother mannes prosperitee /. and after the word of seint Augustyn /. it is sorwe of oother mannes wele / and ioye of othere mennes harm / [485] ¶ This synne is platly agayns the hooly /. Al be it so / that euery synne is agayns the hooly goost/. yet nathelees for as muche / as bountee / aperteneth proprely to the hooly. and Enuye comth proprely. of malice /. ther|fore it is proprely / agayn the bountee of the hooly goost [486] ¶ Now hath malice two speces /. that is to seyn [¶ Of .ij.^o speces of malice / and the firste / is hardnesse / of herte] hardnesse of herte in wikkednesse /. or elles / the flessh of man is so blynd / that he considereþ nat. that he is in synne /. or rekketh nat that he is in synne /. which is the hardnesse of the deuel / [487] ¶ That oother [¶ Of another spece of malice] speche of malice / is whan a man werreyeth trouthe / whan he woot that it is trouthe /. And eek / whan he werreyeth the grace / that god hath yeue to his

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 623
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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