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

[6-text p 612] wys ¶ For soþe he scholde not þanne in al his lyf haue corrage to synne. but ȝiuen his body and al his herte to þe seruice of Ihū crist and þerof do him homage [315] ¶ For certis oure swete lord ihū crist haþ sparid vs so debonerly in oure folyes. þat if he ne hadde pite of mannes soule; sory songe mighte we alle synge.

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Incipit secunda pars eiusdem [[No break in the MS.]]

[316]

THe secounde partye of penitence is confessioun. þat is signe of contricioun [317] ¶ Now schul ȝe vnderstonde what is confessioun and wheþir it oughte needes be doon or noon. A whiche ben conuenable to verray confessioun

[318] ¶ First schalt þou vnderstonde þat confessioun is verrey schewyng of synnes to þe prest [319] þis is to sayn verray. For he moot schewe him of alle þe condiciouns þat ben longynge to his synne as ferforth as he can [320] al mot be sayd and nouȝt excused ne hyd ne forwrappid and nouȝt auaunte him of his goode werkis [321] ¶ And forþermore it is necessary to vnder|stonde whens þat synnes springe and how þay exersen. and whiche þer ben

[322] of þe springing of synnes as seint poul saiþ in þis wise ¶ That right as by a man synne entred first in to þis world. and þorugh þat synne deth; Right so þilke deth entred in to alle men þat synneden. [323] and þis man was adam by whom þat synne entred in to þis world whan he brak þe comaundement of god. [324] And þerfore he þat first was so mighty þat he schulde not haue deyed bicam siþþe on þat he moste needis deye wheþir he wolde or noon and al his progenie þat is in þis world þat in þilke manner synneden [325] ¶ loke þat in þe / . testate of Innocence whan adam and Eue

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 618
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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