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

[6-text p 608] bounde so þat þe blood brast out at euery nayl of his hondes as saith seint austyn [270] ¶ And forþer ouer for as mochil as resoun of man wol nought daunte sensu|alite whan it may þerfore is man worþy to haue schame ¶ And þis suffred oure lord ihū crist for man whan þay spitten in his face [271] And forþer ouer þanne for as moche as þe caytif body of man is rebelle boþe to resoun and to sensualite. þerfore it is worþy þe deth [272] ¶ And þis suffred oure lord ihū crist for vs vpon þe croys wher as þer was no part of his body fre wiþoute gret peyne and bitter passioun [273] ¶ And al þis suffred ihū crist þat neuer forfeted. . . . . [no gap in the MS.] So mochil am I streyned for þe þinges þat I neuer deseruyd and to moche defouled for schendschip þat man is worthy to haue [274] And þer|fore may þe synful man wel saye as saith sent Bernard ¶ Acursed be þe bitternesse. . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [275] For certis after þe dyuers discordaunces of oure wickednes was þe passioun of oure lord ihū crist/ ordeyned in diuers þinges [276] ¶ As þus. Certis sinful mannes soule is bytraysid of þe deuel by coueitise of temporal prosperite and scorned by disceyt whan he cheseþ fleischly delytes and ȝit is it tormentid by impacience of aduersite and byspit by seruage and subieccioun of synne. and atte last it is slayn finally [277] ¶ For þis discordaunce of synful man was Ihū crist first bytraised and after was he bounde that com for to vnbynden vs fro synne and of peyne [278] ¶ Than was he scorned; þat oonly schulde be honoured in alle þing of alle þinges. [279] ¶ Than was his visage þat oughte be desired to be say of al man-kynde. In which visage aungels desiren to loke vileynsly byspit. [280] Thanne was he scorned þat no þing had agilt. and fynally þanne was he crucified and slayn [281] Thanne was accomplised þe
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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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