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

[6-text p 629] [500] ¶ Agayns god is it whan a man gruccheth agayn the pyne of helle / or agayns pouerte / or los of catel / or agayn reyn / or tempest or ellis gruccheth / þat shrewes han prosperitee / or ellis / for þat goode men han ad|uersitee / [501] and alle thise thynges / sholde men suffre paciently / for they comen by the rightful Iugement & ordinance [folio 249b] of god [502] ¶ Som tyme / cometh grucchynge of Auarice / as Iudas grucched agayns the Magdeleyne / whan she enoynte the heued of oure lord Ihu crist with hire precious oynement ‖ [503] this manere of murmure is swich as whan men grucchen of goodnesses þat hem selue doon or þat othere folk doon / of hire owene catel [504] ¶ Som tyme comth Murmure of pryde / as whan Symon the pharisee / grucched agayn the Magdeleyne / whan she approched to Ihu crist & weepe at his feet for hire synnes ‖ [505] And som tyme / it sourdeth of Enuye / whan men discoueren a mannes harm þat was pryuee / or bereth hym on hand thyng þat is fals / [506] ¶ Murmur eek is ofte amonges seruantz / þat grucchen / whan hire souereyns bidden hem to doon leueful thynges / [507] and for as muche as they dar nat openly with seye the comandementz of hire souereyns / yet wol they seyn harm & grucche & murmure pryuely for verray despit/ [508] whyche wordes / men clepe the deueles pater noster / though so be / þat the deuel ne hadde neuere pater noster/ but þat lewed folk / yeuen it swich a name [509] ¶ Som tyme it comth of Ire / or pryuee hate / þat norisseth rancour in herte / as afterward I shal declare [510] ¶ Thanne comth eek bitternesse of [[Bitt]ernesse.] herte / thurgh which bitternesse / euery good dede of his neighebore semeth to hym bitter/ and vnsauoury [511] ¶ Thanne comth discord / þat vnbyndeth alle manere [[Dis]corde.] of frendshipe ¶ Thanne comth scornynge of [[Sco]rnynge] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] his neighe|bore al do he neuer so wel [512] ¶ Thanne comth accusynge / as whan man seketh occasion to anoyen his [[Ac]cusinge]
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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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