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

[6-text p 676] hym self / the moore wolde it corrupte and haste hym to his deeth and eek the wounde / wolde be the wors for to heele. [999] ¶ And right / so fareth synne / þat longe tyme is in a man vnshewed [1000] ¶ Certes a man oghte hastily shewen hise synnes for manye causes. as for drede of deeth þat cometh ofte sodenly. and no certeyn what tyme it shal be / ne in what place. and eek the drecchynge of o synne draweþ In another / [1001] and eek the lenger þat he tarieth / the ferther he is fro crist [folio 234b] And if he abide to his laste day / scarsly may he shryuen hym / or re|membre hym of hise synnes / or repenten hym / for the greuous maladie of his deeth [1002] and for as muche as he ne hath nat in his lyf herkned Ihesu crist whanne he hath spoken. he shal crie to Ihesu crist at his laste day / and scarsly wol he herkne hym [1003] ¶ And vnderstond / that this condicion moste han foure thynges ¶ Thi shrift/ moste be purueyed bifore and auysed. [¶ How a mannes shrift moste be purueyed & auysed biforn.] for wikked haste dooth no profit/ and þat a man konne shryue hym of hise synnes / be it of pride or of Enuye and so forth of the speces and circumstances. [1004] and þat he haue comprehended in hys mynde the nombre and the greetnesse of hise synnes. and how longe þat he hath leyn in synne. [1005] and eek/ þat he be contrit of hise synnes. and in stidefast purpos by the grace of god neuere eft to falle in synne. and eek/ þat he drede and countrewaite hym self / þat he fle the occasions of synne to whiche he is enclyned [1006] ¶ Also / thou shalt shryue thee of alle [¶ How a man shal shryue him of alle hise synnes to o man] thy synnes to o man / and nat a parcel to o man and a parcel to another /. that is to vnderstonde in entente / to departe thy confession / as for shame or drede. for it nys but stranglynge of thy soule /. [1007] ffor certes Ihesu crist is entierly al good in hym nys noon inperfeccion. and therfore / outher he foryeueth al parfitly / or neuer a deel [1008] ¶ I seye nat þat if thow be assigned to the Penitancer for certein synne. þat thow art bounde to shewen hym al the remenant of thy synnes. of whiche
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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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