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

[6-text p 636] in diuers cuntrees. [581] þis cursed synne don þay whan þay felen in here herte ful wickidly of god and his halwes [582] ¶ also whan þay treten vnreuerently þe sacrament of þe auter. þilke synne is so gret þat vnneþe may it be relessed but þat þe mercy of god passith alle his werkes. and is so gret and so benigne [583] ¶ Thanne comeþ of Ire attry anger whan a man is scharply amonested in his schrifte to for|lete synne; [584] þanne wol he be angry and answere hokerly and angrily and defenden or excusen his synne by vnstedefastnesse of his fleisch. or elles he dede it to holde companye with his felawes. or ellis he saith þe fend entised him. [585] or elles he dide it for his ȝouthe. or ellis his complexioun is so corrageous þat he may not forbere. or ellis it is desteny. as he saith. . . . . [no gap] it comeþ him of gentilesce of his auncetrie and semblable þinges [586] ¶ Alle þese maner of folk so wrappen hem in here synnes þat þay wol nouȝt deliuer hemself ¶ For soþely no wight þat excuseth him wilfully of his synne may nought / be deliuered of his synne til þat he mekely biknoweþ his synne. [587] ¶ After þis þanne . . . . . [no gap] þat is expres agayns þe comaundementȝ of god & þis bifallith often of angir and of Ire [588] ¶ God saith. þou schalt not take þe name of þy lord god in vayn or in ydil. ¶ Also oure lord ihū crist saith by þe word of seint. Mathew . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [589] ¶ Ne wol ȝe not swere in alle manere. neither by heuen for it is goddes trone. ne by þe eorþe for it is þe benche of his feet. ne by ierusalem; for it is þe cite of a gret king. ne by þin heed; þou may nought make an her whit ne blak. [590] but sayeth by ȝoure word ȝe. ȝe. and nay. nay. and what it is more; it / is of euel. þus saith ihū crist [591] ¶ For cristes sake swereþ not so synfully in dismembring of crist. for cristes sake. bi
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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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