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

[6-text p 607] of þe passioun þat oure lord ihū crist suffred for vs in preching. [257] his werynesse in trauayling his tempt|acioun whan he fastid. his longe wakinges whan he prayde his teeres whan he wepte for pite of good peple [258] þe wo and þe schame and þe filthe þat men saide to him ofte foul spittyng þat men spitten on his face. Of þe buffettis þat men ȝaf him of þe foule mowes and of þe re|proues þat men to him saiden [259] of þe nayles with whiche he was nayled to þe cros and of al þe remenaunt of his passioun þat he suffred for my synnes and no þing for his gilt [260] ¶ And ȝe schal vnder|stonde þat in mannes synne is euery maner ordre of ordinaunce turned vpso-doun. [261] ¶ For it is soþ þat god & resoun and sensualite and þe body of man be so ordeyned that euerich of þese .iiij. schulde haue lordschipe ouer . . [262] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] resoun and resoun ouer sensualite. and sensualite ouer þe body of man. [263] ¶ But soþly whan man synneþ al þis ordre or ordinaunce is torned vpso-doun [264] and þanne for as moche as þe resoun of a man ne wol not be subiect ne obeissant to god þat is his lord by right; þer|fore lesith it þe lordschipe þat it schulde haue in sensualite and eek ouer þe body of man. [265] And why; For sensualite rebellith þanne agayns resoun. And by þat way lesith resoun þe lordschipe ouer sensualite and ouer þe body. [266] For right as resoun is rebel to god; Right so is boþe sensualite rebel to resoun and þe body also [267] And certis þis disordynaunce and þis rebellioun oure lord ihū crist bought vpon his precious body ful deere ¶ And herkeneth in which wise [268] [folio 258a] ¶ For as moche as resoun is rebel to god; þer|fore is man worþy to haue sorwe and to be deed. [269] þis suffred oure lord ihū crist for man and after þat he was bytraysed of his disciple and destreyned and
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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.,
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