Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

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

[6-text p 319] Whan he of wine was replete att his feste 489 Riht att his owen table ȝaf his heste To slene þe Baptiste Iohn ful gilteles Senec seiþe eke good wordes douteles 492 He seiþe he kan no difference finde Be-tuex a man þat is oute of his mynde And a man þat is drongelewe Bot wodenes is falne in a schrewe 496 Perseuereþ longer þan doþ dronkennesse O glotony ful of cursednesse O cause firste of oure confusione O originale of owre dampnacione 500 To criste hadde bouht owte wiþ his blode aȝeine Lo howe dere and schortly was to seine A-boute was þe cursed velanye Corrupte was al þis werld þoruhe glotonye 504 Adam oure fadere and his wif also Fro paradise to labour and to woo Were dreue for þat vice it is no drede For whiles þat adam fasted as .I. rede 508 He was in paradise & whan þat hee Ete of þe fruyte defended on a tree Anone he was out cast to woo and pyne [folio 175b] O glotonye on þe wele ouht vs to pleine 512 O wist a man howe many maladies Foloweþ of excesse and of glotonies He schold be þe more mesurable Of his Diet sittinge att þe table 516 Alas þe schort þrote þe tender mouþe Makeþ þat est and west Norþe and souþe In erþe in eyre in water men to swynke To gette a gloton Mete and drinkge 520 Of þis matiere o paule wele cans þou entrete Metee vn-to wome and wombe eke vn-to mete Schal god discriuen boþe as poule seiþe Alas a foule þinge it is be my feiþe 524
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The Lansdowne 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,
1867-1879.

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