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

[6-text p 608] bounde so / þat the blood brast out at euery nayl of hise handes / as seith Seint Augustyn ‖ [270] And forther ouer for as muchel as reson of man ne wol nat daunte sensu|alitee when it may; / therfore / is man worthy to han shame / and this suffrede oure lord Ihu crist for man whan they spette in his visage ‖ [271] and forther ouer / for as muche thanne / as the kaytif body of man / is rebel / bothe to reson & to sensualitee / therfore / it is worthy the deeth / [272] and this suffred oure lord Ihu crist for man vp on the croys / where as ther nas no part of his body free with oute gret peyne & bitter passion / [273] and al this suffred Ihu crist þat neuere forfeted ‖ . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] to muchel am I peyned for the thynges þat I neuere deserued and to muche defouled for shendshipe / þat man is worthy to haue ‖ [274] And ther|fore / may the synful man wel seye / as seith Seint Bernard / Acursed be the bitternesse of my synne / for which / ther moste be suffred so muche bitternesse / [275] for certes after the diuerse discordances of oure wikkednesses / was the passion of Ihu crist ordeyned in diuerse thynges ‖ [276] As thus ‖ Certes synful mannes soule is bitraysed of the deuel by coueitise of temporel prosperitee & scorned by deceyte / whan he cheseth flesshly delites / and yet is it tormented by inpacience of Aduersitee / and byspet by seruage & subieccion of synne / and atte laste / it is slayn fynally ‖ [277] for this desordenance of synful man / was Ihu crist first bitraysed / and after that was he bownde / þat cam for to vnbynde vs / of Synne & of peyne ‖ [278] thanne was he biscorned / þat oonly sholde ben honoured in alle thynges of alle thynges / [279] thanne was his visage þat oghte be desired to be seyn of alle mankynde in which visage Angels desiren to looke / vileynsly bispet / [280] thanne was he skourged / þat no thyng hadde agilt and fynally / thanne was he crucefied & slayn ‖ [281] thanne was acompli [folio 242a] ced the
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The Hengwrt 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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