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

[6-text p 623] for delyt þat þay ben so faire fat and costlewe [433] and also many a vicious knaue mayntened by cause of hem and in to curious harnoys as in sadelis and bridlis cropours and peytrelle couered with precious cloþing and riche barres and plates of gold and of siluer [434] For whiche god saithe by ȝacharie þe prophete ¶ I wol confounde þe ryders of such horsis [435] ¶ These folk take litil reward of þe ryding of goddes sone of heuen and of his harneys whan he rode vpon an asse. and hadde noon oþer harneys but þe cloþing of his disciples newe. ¶ Ne rede I not þat euer he rode on oþer beest [436] ¶ I speke þis for þe synne of superfluite and nouȝt for resonable honeste whan resoun it requirith [437] ¶ And forþer ouer certes pride is gretly notified in holdyng of gret meyne whan þay ben of litil profyt or of right no profyt. [438] and namely whan þat meyne is felenous and daun|gerous to þe poeple by hardynesse of lordschipe or by way of offices [439] Fo[r] certes suche lordes selle þanne here lordschipe to þe deuel of helle whan þay susteyne þe wickidnes of here meyne [440] or elles whan þese folk of lowe degre as is þilke þat holden hostilries and susteyne þe þefte of here hostilers and þat is in many maneres of disceytes. [441] þilke maner of folk ben þe flyes þat folwen þe hony or elles þe houndes [folio 264a] þat folwen þe carayn. suche forsayde folk / strangelen spirituelly here lordschipes [442] for whiche þus saith dauid þe prophete ¶ wikked deth moot come vpon such lordschipes. & god ȝeue þat þay moot descende in to helle a doun. For in here houses ben iniquites and schrewednesses and not god of heuen. [443] and certes but þay do amende|ment. right so as god ȝaf his benisoun to pharao by þe seruice of Iacob and to balan þe seruice of Ioseph. Right so god wil ȝeue his malisoun to such lordschipes as susteynen þe wikkednes of her seruauntes but þay
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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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