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The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[6-text p 319] whan he of wyn was repleet at his fest [folio 188a] Right at his oughne table ȝaf his hest To sle þe baptist Iohn ful gilteles Seneca seiþ a good word douteles 492 he saiþ he can no difference fynde Bituyx a man þat is out of his mynde And a man þe which is dronkelewe But þat woodnes fallen in a schrewe 496 Perseuereth lenger þan doth dronkennesse O glutonye ful of corsidnesse O cause first of oure confusioun O origiual of oure dampnacioun 500 Til crist had bought out wiþ his blood agayn lo how dere schortly for to sayn Abought was first/ þis cursed felonye Corupt was al þis world for glotonye 504 Adam our fader and his wyf also Fro paradys to labour and to wo [Quam diu ieiunauit adam in paradyso fuit comedit et eiectus est statim duxit vxorem &c.] were dryuen for þat vice it is no drede For whils þat adam fasted as I rede 508 he was in paradis and whan þat he Eet of þe fruyt defendit of a tre he was out cast to wo and in-to peyne O. glotony. wel ought vs on þe pleyne 512 O. wist a man how many maladyes Folwith of excesse and of glotonyes he wolde be þe more mesurable Of his diete sittyng at his table 516 Allas þe schorte þrote þe tendre mouþ Makeþ þat Est. West. north and south In erþe in watir in ayer man to swynke To gete a sely glotoun mete and drynke. 520 Of þis matier o poul wel canstow trete Mete vnto wombe and wombe vnto mete [Esca ventris & venter escis deus autem hunc & illam destruet &c.] Schal god destroyen boþe as powel saiþ Allas a foul þing is it by my faiþ 524
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The Harleian ms. 7334 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.,
1885.

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