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

[6-text p 664] synne [874] ¶ Aduoutrie in latyn is for to sayn approching of oþer mannes bed þorugh þe which þat whilom were oon fleisch abounden here bodyes to oþer persones [875] ¶ Of þis synne as saiþ þe wise man many harmes cometh þer-of ¶ First brekyng of faith ¶ And certes faith is þe keye of cristendom. [876] and whan þat faith is broke & lorn; soþely cristendom stont veyn and wiþouten fruyt [877] ¶ This synne is eek a þeef. For þefte is generally to speke to reue a wight his þing agayns his wille [878] ¶ Certis þis is þe foulest thefte þat may be whan a womman stelith hir body from hire housbounde and ȝiueth it to hire holour to defoule hire & stelith hir soule fro crist/ and ȝeuith it to þe deuel [879] ¶ This is a fouler þefte þan for to breke a chirche and stele chalises. For þese aduouteres breke þe temple of god spirituelly and stelen þe vessel of grace þat is þe body and þe soule ¶ For Ihū crist schal destroyen hem as saith seint poule [880] ¶ Sothely þis þefte doutyd gretly Ioseph whan þat his lordes wyf prayde him of vilonye whan he saide. lo my lady how my lord haþ take to me vnder my warde al þat he haþ in þis world. ne no þing of his power is oute of my power but oonly ȝe þat ben his wyf. [881] and how schuld I do þanne þis wikkidnes and synne so horribly agayns god and my lord. God it forbede ¶ Alas al to litel is suche trouþe now I-founde [882] ¶ The þridde harm is þe filthe þurgh which þay breken þe comaundement of god and defoule þe auctour of here matrimonye þat is crist. [883] For certis in so moche as þe sacrament of mariage is so noble and so digne; So moche is it þe gretter synne for to breke it. for god makid mariage in paradis in þestat of Innocence to multiplie man kynde to þe seruice of god [884] and þerfore is þe brekyng þe more greuous. Of which breking comeþ fals heires ofte tymes þat wrongfully occupien mennes heritage. and þerfore wolde crist putte
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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 670
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,
1885.

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