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

[6-text p 610] maner schal be his contricioun ¶ I say it schal be vniuersal and total ¶ þis is to say. a man schal be verray repentaunt for alle his synnes þat he haþ doon in delyt of his þought for delit is ful perilous [293] ¶ For þer ben tuo maners of consentynge . . . . . [no gap] of affeccioun whan a man is moeued to synne & delitith him longe for to þinke on þat synne. [294] and his resoun aparceyueth wel þat it is synne agayns þe lawe of god. & ȝit his resoun refreyneþ not his foule delit or talent þough he seth wel apertly þat it is aȝenst/ þe reuerence of god al þough his resoun consente not to do þe synne in dede; [295] ȝit sayn some doctours delyt þat duellith longe it is ful perilous al be it neuer so lite [296] ¶ And also a man schulde sorwe namely for al þat he haþ desired agayn þe lawe of god wiþ parfyt consentynge of his hert and of his resoun ¶ For þerof is no doute þat it is dedly synne [297] . . . . . [no gap] þat it nas first in mannes þought. & after þat in his delit/ and so forþ in to consentyng and in to dede [298] ¶ wherfore say I þat many men repente hem neuer [folio 259a] of suche þoughtes and delitis. ne neuer schriue hem of hit. but oonly of þe dede of grete synnes outward [299] ¶ wherfore I say þat suche wickid delitis and wickid þouȝtes ben subtile bigilours of hem þat schuln be dampned [300] ¶ More ouer man oughte to sorwe for his wicked wordes as wel as his wikked dedes. For certis þe repentaunce of a singuler synne & nouȝt repente of alle his oþer synnes . . . . . [no gap] may nouȝt auaile [301] ¶ For certis god almighty is al good and þerfore he forȝeueth al or elles right nouȝt [302] ¶ And here-of seiþ seint augustin ¶ I wot certeynly þat god is enemy to euery synnere [303] ¶ And how þanne he þat obseruith oon synne schal he haue remissioun of 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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