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

[6-text p 602] dauid seiþe þe riche folke þat enbrasen & coueten in all herte þe tresoure of þis werlde; scholne slepe in þe slepeinge of deþe As no þinge schal þei finden in al hir handes of hire tresour [194] ¶ And more ouere þe Misese of hell schall ben in defaute of mete & drinke; [195] ffor god seiþ þus be moyses; Thei scholne be wastede wiþ hunger & þe berdes of hell schal deuouren him wiþ bitter deþ An þe gal of þe dragon . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] hir morsel; [196] And ferþer ouere hire mysese schal buen in defaute of cloþeinge; for þei schal be nake in body as in cloþinge; saue þe fire in whiche þei birne; & oþere felþes [197] & naked schal þei bien in soule of al manere of vertues; whiche þat is þe cloþeinge of soule; // Wher bue þan þe gaie Robes & þe soft schetes & þe smale schertes; [198] Lo what seiþe god of hem be þe prophet Ysaye; þat vnder hem schal be strewed mouhtes; & here couertours schal be of þe wermes of hell. [199] And ferþer ouere hire mysese schalbe in defaute of frendes; For he is nouȝt pouer þat haþe goode frendes bott þere is no frende; [200] ffor neyþere god ne creature schall be frende to hem; And euery of hem schal haten oþere wiþ dedeli hate; [201] þe sonnes of þe douhtern schal rebellen aȝeines fader & moder & kinrede aȝeines kinrede; & chiden and dispisen iche of hem oþere boþe daie & nyght; ¶ As god seiþe be þe prophete Mechias [202] And þe loueynge childern þat whilom loued so fleschely eueryche oþere wolden eueryche of hem eten oþere if þei myht; [203] ffor howe schold þei louen hem to geder in þe peine of hell whan þei hateden eueryche of hem oþere Eyþerin þe prosperite of þis lif [204] ¶ For truste wele here fleschely loue was dedely hate as seiþe þe prophete dauid. ¶ Wo so þat loueþ wikked|nesse; he hateþ his soule; [205] And who þat hateþ his owen soule; certes he may loue none oþer wight
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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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