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

[6-text p 637] soule. [folio 269a] herte. boones and body. For certes it semeþ þat ȝe þenke þat cursed Iewes ne dismembrit nought ynough· þe precious persone of crist. but ȝe dismembre him more. [592] and if so be þat þe lawe com|pelle ȝow to swere. þanne reule ȝow after þe lawe of god in ȝoure swering as saiþ. Ieremie capitulo .iiijto . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] ¶ Thou schalt kepe þre condiciouns. þou schalt swere in trouþe in doom and in rightwisnes [593] þis is to sayn. þou schalt swere soth. For euery lesyng is agayns crist. for crist is verray trouþe and þink wel þis þat euery gret swerer not compellid lawfully to swere þe wonder schal not departe fro his hous whil he vseth such vnleful sweringe [594] ¶ þou schalt eek swere in doom whan þou art constreigned by þy domes|man to witnesse þe trouþe. [595] eek þou schalt not swere for enuye ne for fauour ne for meede but / for rightwisnesse for declaring of it to worschip of god and helping of þin euen|cristen [596] and þerfore euery man þat takiþ goddes name in ydil or falsly sweriþ with his mouth or elles takiþ on him þe name of crist and callith himself a cristen man and lyueth agayn cristes lyuyng and his teching alle þay take cristes name in ydel [597] ¶ loke eek what saith seint peter Actuum cao. iiijto ¶ Non est aliud nomen sub celo &c ¶ Ther is noon oþer name saith seint peter vnder heuen ne ȝeuen to noon men in which þay mowe be saued þat is to sayn but in þe name of ihū crist [598] ¶ Tak heede eek how þe precious name of crist as saith seint poule ad philippenses .ijo. In nomine ihū &c ¶ That in þe name of ihū euery kne of heuenly creatures or erþely or of helle schulde bowe and . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] tremble to heeren it nempned. [599] ¶ Thanne semeþ it þat men þat sweren so horribly by his
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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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