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

[6-text p 622] daggid cloþing to þe pore folk. it is not conuenient to were to the pore folk ne suffisaunt to beete here necessite to kepe hem fro þe desperance of þe firmament [422] ¶ vpon þat oþer syde to speke of þe horrible disordinat scantnes of cloþing. as ben þese cuttid sloppis or Anslets þat þurgh her schortnes ne couereth not þe schamful membre of man to wickid entent [423] Alas som men of hem schewen þe schap and þe boce of the horrible swollen membres þat semeth like to þe maledies of hirnia in þe wrapping of here hose / [424] and eek þe buttokes of hem þat faren as it were þe hinder part of a sche ape in þe fulle of þe moone [425] ¶ And more ouer þe wrecchid swollen membres þat þay schewe þurgh desgysyng in departyng of here hoses in whyt and reed seemith þat half þe schame|ful priue membres were flayn. [426] And if it so be þat þay departe here hosen in oþer colours. as it whit and bliew. or whit and blak and reed and so forth; [427] þanne semith it [folio 263b] as by variaunce of colour þat half þe party of his priuy membris ben corrupt by þe fuyr of seint antony or by cancre or by other such meschaunce [428] ¶ And ȝit of þe hynder partye of here buttokes it is ful horrible for to see. For certis in þat partie of here body þer as þay purgen her stynkyng ordure [429] þat foule party schewe þay to þe poeple proudly in despyt of honeste which honeste þat ihū crist and his frendes obserueden to schewen in his lif [430] ¶ Now as of þe outrageous array of wommen. God wot. þat þough þe visage of some of hem seme ful chaste and debonaire; ȝit notifye þay in here array of attyre licorousnesse and pride [431] I say not þat honeste in cloþing of man or womman is vncouen|able ¶ But certis þe superfluite or disordinat skantnes of cloþing is repreuable [432] ¶ Also þe synne of here ornament or of apparaile as in þinges þat aperteynen to rydyng as in to many delicat horses þat ben hold|en
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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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