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

[6-text p 660]

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[folio 277a] AGayns Glotonye is þe remedie abstinence as saiþ Galien. But þat holde I nouȝt meritorie. If he do it oonly for þe hele of his body ¶ Seint austyn wol þat abstinence be don for vertu and wiþ pacience. [832] Abstinence he saith is litil worth but if a man haue good wille þerto and but it be enforced by pacience. and by charite. and þat men doon it for goddes sake and in hope to haue þe blisse of heuen

[833] ¶ The felawes of abstinence ben attemper|aunce þat holdith þe mene in alle þinges. eek schame þat eschiewith al dishoneste. Suffisaunce þat seeketh noone riche metes ne drynkes ne doþ no force of to outrageous apparaillyng of mete [834] ¶ Mesure also þat restreyneþ by resoun the dislaue appetit of etyng. Sobernes also restreyneþ . . . . .[835] . . . .] þe delicat wille to ete and þe lasse leysir . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [[No break in the MS.]]

¶ De luxuria

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AFter Glotonye þanne cometh leccherie. For þese two synnes ben so neih cosyns þat ofte tyme þay wol not departe. [837] Vnde paulus ad Ephesios ¶ Nolite inebriari vino &c. God wot þis synne is ful displesaunt þing to god. vino in quo est luxuria. For he sayde him|self. Do no leccherie. and þerfore he putte gret peyne agayn þis synne / in þe olde lawe. [838] If a wom|man þral were take in þis synne. sche scholde be beten with stoones to þe deth. and if sche were a gentil womman; sche schulde be slayn wiþ stoones./ and if sche were a bisschoppis douȝter; sche schulde be brent by goddis comaundement. [839] ¶ Forther ouer by þe synne of leccherie; god dreinte al þe world at þe

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 666
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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