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

[6-text p 663] were his suster [862] ¶ The fyfte fynger of the deueles hond is þe stynkynge dede of leccherie [863] ¶ Certes þe fyue fyngres of glotonye þe deuel put in þe wombe of a man. & his fyue fyngres of lecchery bygripeth hym by þe reynes for to þrowe him in to þe fourneys of helle. [864] þere as þey schuln haue þe fuyr. and þe wormes þat euer schal lasten. and wepyng and wayling scharp hunger and þurst. and grislines of deueles þat schul alto-tere hem wiþoute respit/ and wiþ|outen ende [865] ¶ Of leccherie as I sayde sourdren diuers spices of fornicacion þat is bitwen man and womman þat ben nouȝt maried and þis is dedly synne and against nature [866] al þat is enemy and destruccioun to nature. [867] par fay þe resoun of a man telliþ him wel þat it is dedly synne For als moche as god forbad leccherie and seint poule ȝeuith hem þat regne þat is due to no wight but hem þat doon synne dedly [868] Anoþer synne of lecchery is for to bireue a mayden of hir maydenhede / for he þat so doþ; Certes he casteth maydenhede out of the heighest degre þat is in þe present lif [869] and bireuith hir þilke precious fruyt þat þe book clepith þe hundrid fruyt. I can ȝeue it noon oþer name in englisch. but in latyn it is I-cleped Centesimus fructus secundum Ieronimum contra Iouinianum [870] ¶ Certes he þat so doth is cause of many harmes and vilenyes mo þan eny man can rekene. Right as he som tyme is cause of alle þe damages þat bestis doon in þe feeld þat brekith þe hegge or þe closure þurgh which he destroyeþ þat may not be restored; [871] for certes no more may maydenhode be re|stored þan an arm þat is smyten fro þe body retourne agayn to waxe. [872] sche may haue mercy þis wot I wel if sche do penitence but neuer schal it be þat sche nas corrupt [873] ¶ And al be it so þat I haue spoke som what of aduoutre; ȝit is it good to speke of mo [folio 278b] perils þat longen to aduoutre for to eschiewe þat foule
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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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Page 669
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,
1885.

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