Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[6-text p 600] of god ne wol nought spare no wight for praier ne for ȝifte ¶ And þerfore at þe day of doom þer nys non hope to eskape [169] Wherfore as seiþ Anselme ¶ fful gret [Anselmus] anguyssche schuln þe synful folk haue at þat tyme [170] ¶ Ther schal be þe sterne and þe wroth Iuge sitte aboue And vnder him þe orrible putte of helle to de|struye him þat mot byknowe his synnes whiche synnes openly ben schewed byforn god and biforn euery creature [171] and on þe lift syde moo deeueles þan þe herte may þinke for to harye and to drawe þe sinful soules to þe pyne of helle [172] and with Inne þe hertes of folk schal be þe bytyng Conscience ¶ And wiþoute forþ schal be þe world al brennyng [173] ¶ Whider schal þenne þe wrecched synful soule fflee to huyde him; Certes he may nouȝt huyde him. he moste come forþ and schewe him [174] ¶ ffor certes as saiþ seint Ierom // The erþe schal caste him out of him and þe see also and þe aier also þat schal ben ful of þondir clappes and lightenynges [175] ¶ Now soþly who so wol remembre him of þese þinges; I gesse þat his synnes schal nought turne him in to delyte but to gret sorwe for drede of þe peyne of helle [176] and þer|fore saiþ Iob to god ¶ Suffre lord þat I may a while [.Iob.] bywayle and wepe er I go and weepe wiþouten retournyng to þe derke lande couered wiþ þe derknesse of deþ [177] to þe land of mysese and of derkenesse where as is schadewe of deth wher as þer nys non oþer or|dinance but grisly drede þat euer schal laste [178] ¶ Lo heere may ȝe seen þat Iob preyede respite a while to bywepe and wayle his trespas ¶ ffor sooþly oo day of [exemplum] respite is bettre þan alle þe tresour of þis world [179] ¶ And for as moche as man may quyte himself biforn god by penitence in þis world and nought by tresour ¶ þerfore schulde he preye to god to ȝiue him respyt a while to byweepen and byweylen his trespas // [180] ¶ ffor certes al þe sorwe þat a man mighte make fro þe Begynnyng
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The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,
1868-[1869]

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