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

[6-text p 655] [780] ¶ That oþer marchaundise þat men hauntyn with fraude and treccherie and deceipt/ with lesynges and fals othis is cursed and dampnable [781] ¶ Espirituel marchaundiȝe is proprely symonie þat is ententyf desire to beye þing/ espirituel þat is þing þat apperteyneth to þe seintuarie of god and to þe cure of þe soule [782] þis desir is if so be þat a man do his diligence to parforme it. al be it þat his desir take noon effect. ȝit is it/ to him a dedly synne. and if he be ordrid he is irreguler [783] ¶ Certis Symonye is cleped of Symon Magus þat wolde han bought for temporel catel þe ȝifte þat god had ȝiuen by þe holy gost to seint petir and to þapostlis [784] ¶ And þerfor vnderstonde þat boþe he þat sellith and he þat bieth þinges espiritueles ben cleped Symonials be it by catel be it by procurement or by fleisshly prayere of his frendes eiþer flesshly frendes or spirituel frendes [785] ¶ Fleisshly in tuo maneres as by kynrede or oþer frendes ¶ Sothely if þay pray for him. it is not worth . . . . . [no gap] if he take þe benefice it is Symonie. and if he be worthy & able. it is non [786] ¶ That oþer is whan man or womman prayen for folk to avaunce hem oonly for wikkid fleisshly affeccioun þat þay haue vnto þe persone and þat is ful Symonye. [787] but certis in seruice . . . . . [no gap] moot he be honest and ellis not. and eek þat [folio 275b] it be withoute bargaynynge and þat þe persone be able [788] ¶ For as saith seint Damase ¶ Alle þe synnes of þis world at þe reward of þis synne is a þing of nought. For it is þe gretteste synne þat may be after þe synne of lucifer and antecrist [789] ¶ For by þis synne god forlesith þe chirche and þe soule þat he bouȝt wiþ his precious blood by hem þat ȝeuen chirches to hem þat ben not digne [790] ¶ For þay putten in þeues 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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