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

[6-text p 610] manere shal be his contricion ‖ I seie that hit shal be vniuersale & totale / this is to seine a man shal be verry repentaunt / [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 276a] for alle his synnes that he hath done / in delite of his thought for delite is ful perilous / [293] ffor ther ben two manere of consentynges / that oon of hem is cleped consenting of affeccioun / whan a man is meved to do synne / & deliteth him longe for to thenke on that synne / [294] he hath reson that perceiveth wel that hit is synne ageynste the lawe of god / . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] al though his reson ne consente nat to do the synne in dede / [295] yit seine somme doctours / that suche delite that duellith longe is ful perilous / al be it neuer so lite / [296] And also a man sholde sorowe for al that euer he hath desired ayeines the lawe of god with perfite consentynge of resoun / ffor ther-of is no doute / that hit is dedly synne / in consentynge / [297] ffor certes ther is no dedly synne / but hit is first in man-is thoughte / & after that in his delite / and so forthe in-to consentynge / & in-to dede / [298] wherfore I seie that many men repente hem neuere of suche thoughtes / & delites / ne neuere shriven hem of hit / but only of the dede ‖ of grete synnes outwarde ‖ [299] wherfore I seie that suche wikked delites / & wikked thoughtes / ben subtile begillours of hem that shullen be dampned / [300] More-ouere a man oughte to sorowe for his wikked wordes / as wel as for his wikked dedes ‖ ffor certes the repentaunce of a singuler synne / and nought repent of al his other synnes or ellis repente him of alle his other synnes / & nat of a singuler synne / may nought availe ‖ [301] ffor certes almyghti god is al good / And therfore he for-yevith al / or elles right nought / [302] And herof seith seint Austyne / I wote certeynly [303] that [¶ Austyne.] god is enemy to euery synne / And how than he that observith. oo synne shal he haue foryeuenesse of the
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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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