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

[6-text p 603] in no manere [206] ¶ And þerfore in helle is no solace ne frendschipe. but euer þe more flesshly kynredes þat ben in helle; þe more cursynges þe more chyd|ynges and þe more deedly hate þer is among hem [207] And forþer ouer þay schul haue defaute of alle manere delices ¶ For certis delices ben þe appetites of þy fyue wittes as sight hieryng. smellyng. sauor|ing and touching [208] ¶ But in helle here sight schal be ful of derknesse / and of smoke and þerfore ful of teeris. and her hieryng ful of waymentynge and of gruntynge of teeth as saiþ ihū crist // [209] ¶ here nose þurles schuln ben ful of stynkyng stynk. and as saith ysaye þe prophete ¶ here sauoringe schal be ful of bitter galle. [210] and touchyng of al here body y-couered with fuyr þat neuer schal quenche / and wiþ wormes þat neuer schuln deyen / as god saiþ by þe mouþ of ysaie [211] ¶ And for al so moche as þay schuln nouȝt/ wene/ þat þay may deyen for peyne / and by here deth fle fro peyne. þat may þay vnderstonde in þe word of Iob / þat saiþ ¶ Ther as is þe schadow of deth [212] ¶ Certes a schadow haþ þe liknesse of the þing of which it is a schadow. . . . . [no gap] [213] Right so fareth þe peyne of helle. it is lik deþ. for þe horrible anguisshe. And why; for it peyneþ hem euer as though men scholden deye anon. But certes þay schul not deye. [214] For as saith Seint GreGory ¶ To wrecchid caytifs shal be ȝiue deth wiþoute deth and ende wiþouten ende / and defaute withouten faylinge. [215] For here deth schal alway lyuen. and here ende schal euermore bygynne. and here defaute schal not fayle [216] ¶ And þerfor saiþ seint Iohan þe euaungelist ¶ þay schul folwe deþ. and þay schuln nouȝt fynde him. and þay schul desire to deyen And deth schal flee fro hem. [217] ¶ and eek Iob. saiþ. þat in helle is noon ordre of rule [218] ¶ And al be it þat god haþ creat al þing in right ordre and no þing wiþ|oute
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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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