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

[6-text p 635] man [571] Manslaughtre in dede / is in .iiij. maneres. [¶ Of man|slaughtre in dede. in ./ iiij. maneres] ¶ That oon / is by lawe /. right as a Iustice dampneth hym that is coupable to the deeth. / but lat the Iustice [¶ Of man|slaughtre by lawe] be war/ that he do it rightfully /. and that he do it nat for delit to spille blood / but for kepynge of rightwise|nesse / [572] ¶ Another homycide / is that is doon for [¶ Of homycide doon for / necessitee] necessitee /. as whan o man sleeth another in his defendaunt and þat he ne may noon ootherwise escape / from his owene deeth /. [573] but certeinly / if he may escape with outen manslaughtre of his aduersarie / and sleeth hym /. he dooth synne / and he shal bere penance as for deedly synne [574] ¶ Eek/ if a man / by caas or auenture / shete [¶ Of homycide / by caas or auenture] an arwe / or caste a stoon / with which he sleeth a man / he is homycide [575] ¶ Eek/ if a womman by necligence / [¶ Of homycide / whan a womman / ouerlith hir childe] ouerlyeth hire child in hir slepyng. it is homycide and deedly synne / [576] Eek/ whan man destourbeth con|cepcion [¶ Of homycide / in destourbyng/ of the concepcion of/ a childe.] of a child and maketh a womman / outher bareyne by drynkynge venenouse herbes / thurgh which / she may nat conceyue /. or sleeth a child by drynkes wilfully or elles / putteth certeine material thynges / in hire secree places / to slee the child / [577] or elles / dooth vnkyndely synne / by which man or womman shedeth hire nature / in manere or in place / ther as a child may nat be con|cei [folio 223a] ued /. or elles / if a woman haue conceyued / and hurt hir child / and sleeth the child / yet it is homycide [578] ¶ What seye we eek/ of wommen that mordren [¶ Of wommen þat mordre hir children / for worldly shame] hir children for drede of worldly shame /. certes / an horrible homicide [579] ¶ Homycide is eek/ if a man ap|procheth [¶ Of homycide thurghe approch|ynge of man to womman by desir of lecherie /. or elles thurgh smytynge of a womman with childe] to a womman / by desir of lecherie / thurȝ which the child is perissed / or elles smyteth a womman wityngly / thurgh which she leseth hir child ‖. Alle thise been homy|cides / and horrible deedly synnes [580] Yet comen ther of Ire / manye mo synnes /. as wel / in word / as in thoght and [¶ Of many mo synnes that comen of Ire] in dede / as he that arretteth vpon god /. or blameth god / of thyng. of which he is hym self gilty. / or despiseth god / and alle hise halwes / as doon thise cursede hasardours
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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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