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

[6-text p 605] haue contricioun is þe sorwful remembraunce of þe good þat he hath left to doon heer in eorþe. and eek þe good þat he haþ lorn [232] ¶ Soþly þe goode werkes þat he hath left; eyþer þay been þe goode werkes þat he wrought er he fel in to deedly synne; or elles þai ben þe goode werkes þat he . . . . .[233] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] dede er he fel into synne ben amortised. and astoneyed and dullid by ofte synnynge. [234] þat oþere goode werkes that he wrouȝte whil he lay in dedly synne been outrely deede [folio 257a] as to þe lif perdurable in heuen. [235] þanne þilke goode werkes þat ben mortified by ofte synnyng whiche goode werkes he dede whiles he was in charite ne mowe neuer quyken agayn withouten verray penitence. [236] And þerof saith god by þe mouth of Eȝechiel ¶ That if þe rightful man re|tourne agayn fro his rightwisnesse and werke wikked|nesse. schal he liue; [237] nay. For alle þe goode werkes þat he haþ wrought ne schuln neuer be in remembrance for he schal dye in his synne. [238] And vpon þilke chapitre saith seint Gregory þus. þat we schuln vnder|stonde þis principally. [239] That whan we doon dedly synne it is for nouȝt þanne to reherse or to drawe in to memorie þe goode werkes þat we han wrought biforn. [240] For certis in þe werkyng of þe dedly synne þer is no trust to no good werkes that we han don biforne þis tyme. þat is to say as for to haue þerby þe lif per|durable in heuen. [241] But naþeles þe goode werkes quiken agayn and comen again and helpen and auailen to haue þe lif perdurable in heuen whan we han contricioun [242] ¶ But soþly þe goode werkes þat men doon whil þat þai ben in deedly synne. for as moche as þay were doon in dedly synne; þay may neuer quyken . . [243] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] ¶ And al be it þat þay auailen not to haue þe lif perdurable; ȝit auaylen
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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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