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

[6-text p 630] neighebor / which that is lyk / to the craft of the deuel / that waiteth / bothe nyght and day to accusen vs alle [513] ¶ Thanne comth malignitee / thurgh which a man [¶ Of Malignitee] anoyeth his neighebor priuely / if he may. [514] and if he noght may / algate / his wikked wil / ne shal nat wante /. as for to brennen his hous pryuely /. or empoysone / or sleen hise beestes / and semblable thynges /.

[folio 221b] ¶ Remedium contra peccatum Inuidie

[515] NOW wol I speke of the remedie / agayns the foule synne of Enuye / ¶ ffirst is the louynge of god principal / and louyng / of his neighebor as hym self /. for soothly / that oon ne may nat been / with-oute that oother /. [516] And truste wel / that in the name of thy neighebore /. thou shalt vnderstonde the name of thy brother ffor certes / alle we haue o fader flesshly / and o mooder / that is to seyn / Adam and Eue /. and eek o fader espiritueel / and that is god of heuene [517] ¶ Thy neighebore / artow holden for to loue and wilne hym alle [¶ How a man / shal loue his neighebore] goodnesse /. and therfore seith god / loue thy neighebore as thy selue / that is to seyn / to saluacion / of lyf and of soule [518] ¶ And moore ouer / thou shalt loue hym in word / and in benigne amonestynge / and chastisynge / and conforten hym / in hise anoyes / and preye for hym with al thyn herte / [519] ¶ And in dede / thou shalt loue hym in swich wise /. that thou shalt doon to hym in charitee / as thou woldest that it were doon to thyn owene persone /. [520] And therfore / thou ne shalt doon hym no damage in wikked word / ne harm in his body / ne in his catel / ne in his soule / by entissyng of wikked ensample [521] ¶ Thou shalt nat desiren his wyf ne none of hise thynges Vnderstoond eek / that in the name of neighebor / is com|prehended [¶ How in the name of neighe|bor / is compre|hended a mannes enemy] his enemy [522] ¶ certes man shal louen his enemy / by the comandement of god /. and soothly / thy freend / shaltow loue in god [523] ¶ I seye / thyn enemy / shaltow loue for goddes sake / by his comande|ment

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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 626
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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