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

[6-text p 620] weneth þat he schulde haue hem by desert/. or elles he demeth þat he is þat he is not. [397] ¶ Im|pudent is he þat for his pride hath no schame of his synne. [398] ¶ Swellyng of hert is whan a man reioysith him of harm þat he haþ don [399] ¶ Inso|lent is he þat dispisith in his iuggement alle oþer folk as to regard of his valieu and of his connyng & of his spekyng and of his beryng [400] ¶ Elacioun is whan he may neuer suffre to haue maister ne felawe [401] ¶ Impacient is he; þat wil not ben I-taught ne vnder|nome of his vices and by stryf werreþ trouþe witynge and defendeþ his folie [402] ¶ Contimax is he þat þorugh his indignacioun and agains euerych auctorite or power of hem þat been his souerayns [403] ¶ Pre|sumpcioun is whan a man vndertakith and emprisith þat him oughte not to do. or elles þat he may not doo. and þat is cleped surquidrye ¶ Irreuerence is. whan men doon not honour þer as hem ought to doon. and wayteth to be reuerenced [404] ¶ Pertinacie is. whan man defendith his folye and trusteþ to moche to his owne witte [405] ¶ Vayn glorie is. for to haue pomp and delit in temporal heighnes and glorifie him in worldly estaat [406] ¶ Iangelyng is whan a man spekith to moche biforn folk & clappith as a mille and takeþ no keep what he saiþ

[407] and ȝit is þer a priue spice of pride þat wayteth first/ to be saluet er he saliewe al be he lasse worth þan þat oþer is par aduenture. and eek wayteþ or desireþ to sitte aboue him or to go aboue him in þe way. or kisse pax. or ben encensed or gon to þe offringe biforn his neighebore [408] and haþ such . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] a proud desir to be magnified and honoured toforn þe poeple

[409] ¶ now ben tuo maners of pride. þat oon is heighnes wiþinne þe hert/ of a man and þat

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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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