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

[6-text p 600] god ne wol nouȝt spare no wight for praier ne for ȝifte ¶ And þerfore at þe day of doome þer is noon hope to eshcape [169] wherfor as seint anselm seiþ ¶ Ful greet anguisch schuln þe synful folk haue at þat tyme [170] ¶ þere schal þe sterne and þe wroþ Iugge sitte aboue and vnder him þe horrible put of helle open to de|stroye him þat mot byknowe his synnes which synnes openly ben schewed byforn god and biforn euery creature [171] ¶ and on þe lift syde mo deuelis þan herte may þynke for to hary and to drawe þe synful to pyne of helle [172] ¶ And wiþ|inne þe hertes of folk schal be þe bytyng [folio 255a] conscience and wiþoute forþ schal be þe world al brennyng [173] ¶ whider schal þanne þe wrecche synful man. Flee to hyden him; Certes he may not hyde him. he moot come forþ and schewe him [174] ¶ For certes as seith seynt Ierom ¶ The erþe schal caste him out/ of him and þe see also and þe aer also þat schal be ful of þunder-clappes and lightnynges [175] ¶ Now soþly who-so wel remembrith him of þese tydynges; I gesse his synne schal not torne him to delit but/ to gret sorw for drede of þe peyne of helle. [176] and þer|fore saiþ Iob. to god ¶ Suffre lord þat I may a while biwayle and wepe or I go wiþ oute retournynge to þe derk lond couered wiþ derknes of deþ [177] to þe lond of mysese and of derknesse wher as is þe schadow of deth. wher as is noon order [ne] ordinaunce but grislich drede þat euer schal last [178] ¶ loo her may ȝe see þat Iob prayde respit a while to wepe and biwayle his trespas ¶ For forsoþe oon day of respit is bettre þan al þe tresor in þis world. [179] and for as moche as a man may aquyte himself byforn god by penaunce in þis world and not by tresor; þerfore schuld he praye to god ȝiue him respit a while to wepe and to waile his trespas. [180] for certes al . . . . . [no gap]
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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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