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

[6-text p 601] of þe world nys but alytel þing at þe regarde of þe sorwe of helle [181] ¶ The cause why þat Iob clepeþ helle þe lond of derknesses; [182] vnderstondeth þat he clepeþ it lande of erþe ¶ ffor it is stable and neuer schal faile [folio 264a] derknes ¶ ffor he þat is in helle haþ defaute of light material [183] ¶ ffor certes þe derke light þat schal come out of þe fuyre þat euer schal brenne schal turne / him al to peyne ¶ þat is in helle ffor it scheweþ him to þe Orible deueles þat him tormenten [184] couered wiþ þe derknesse of deþ. . . . .[185] . . . [no gap in the MS.] ben þe synnes þat þe wrecchede man haþ don whiche þat distourben him to se þe face of god Right as a derk clowde bitwixen hous and þe [exemplum] sonne [186] lond of myssese by cause þat þer ben þre maneres of defautes aȝeins þre þinges þat folk of þis world han in þis present lyf þat is to say honoures delices and richesse [187] aȝeins honour han þey in helle / schame and confusion [188] ¶ ffor wel ȝe wite þat men clepen honour þe reuerence þat men don to man ¶ But in helle is non honour ne reuerence ¶ ffor certes nomore reuerence schal be do to a king þan to a knaue [189] ¶ ffor which god saiþ by [textus] þe prophete Ieremie ¶ Thilke folk þat me despysen schuln [Ieremie /] ben in despite [190] ¶ Honour is eek cleped gret wor|schipe þer schal no wight seruen oþer ¶ But of harme and torment. honour is eek cleped gret dignite and heigh|nesse ¶ But in helle schullen þey ben alle fortroden of deueles [191] as god saiþ ¶ þe Orrible deueles schuln gon & comen vpon þe heedes of dampned folk ¶ And þis is for as meche as þe heyer þat þey weren in þis present lyff/; þe more schuln þey ben abated and defouled in helle [192] ¶ aȝeins þe riche of þis world schullen þey haue mysese of pouerte and þis pouert schal be .iiij. þinges [193] ¶ In defaute of tresour of which
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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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