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

[6-text p 608] bounde so þat þe blode braste oute att euery nayle of his handes as seiþe seint Austine [270] ¶ And forþermore for as muche þat reson of man wil nouȝt daunte sensu|alite whan it maie; þerefore is man worþi to haue schame; And þus suffred oure lorde ihesu criste; for man; whan þei spitten in his vesage // [271] And ferþere ouere for as muche þan þat þe kaytif body of man/ is rebel boþe to resoun / & sensualite; And þerefore is it worþi þe deþe; [272] And þis suffurde oure lorde ihesu criste for man vpon þe croys where as þere was no party of his body fre with owten grete pyne & bitter passion; [273] And al þis suffred oure lorde ihesu criste þat neuere for fete [·. . . . . [no gap in the MS.] ¶ To mechel am .I. peyned for þe same þinges þat .I. neuer deseruede And to muchel defouled for frendschipe þat man is worþi to haue; [274] And þere|fore maie þe sinnful man wele saie. as seiþe seint Bernard; Acursed be þe butternesse; . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [275] ffor certes after þe diuerse discordance of oure wikkednesse was þe pas|sion of oure lorde ihesu criste. yordeinede in diuerse þinges [276] as þus; ¶ Certes sinnful mannes soule by-trasede of þe deuel be couetise of temperile prosperite and scorned be deceyte; Whan he cheseþ fleschely delites ¶ And ȝit is he tormented be impacience of aduersite; ¶ And be|spette be seruage in subieccione of sinne; and att þe last it is sleyne fynaly; [277] ffor þis disordinance of sinnful man. was ihesu crist first betrayde; And after þat was he bounde þat cam for to [folio 235a] for to vnbynde vs of sinne & of peyne; [278] þan was he bescorned þat only scholde be honoured in al þinges be al þinges. & of al þinges; [279] ¶ Than was his þat ouht be desired to be seyne of al man kinde; In whiche Angeles desiren to loken vilansly be-spitte; [280] þan was he scowrged þat no þinge had gulte; & fynally þan was he crucified And sleyne [281] ¶ þan was he acompliced þe
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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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