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

[6-text p 666] special meyne of god of whiche whan þay don dedly synne þay ben þe special traytours of god and of his poeple. . . . . [no gap in the MS.] and whil þay ben suche traytours; here prayer auayleþ not to þe poeple [895] ¶ Prestis ben aungels as by þe dignite of here misterie ¶ But forsoþe seint poul saith þat Sathanas transformeth him in aungel of light. [896] Soþely þe prest þat hauntith dedly synne; he may be likened to þe aungel of light. . . . . [no gap] & he semeth aungel of light: but for soþe he is aungil of derknes [897] whiche ben þe sones of belie as schewith in þe book of kinges þat þay were þe sones of belial þat is þe deuel. [898] belial is to say wiþoute Iuge and so faren þay þay þynke hem fre and han no Iuge no more þan hath a fre bole þat takith which cow þat him likeþ in þe toun [899] so faren þay by wommen For right as a fre bole is y-nough for al a toun; / Right so is a wikked prest corrupcioun ynough for al a parisch or for al a contray [900] ¶ These prestes as saiþ þe book ne conne not þe mistery of presthode. þe poeple ne [folio 279b] god ne knowe þay not. þay holde hem nought apayed as saith þe book of soden fleissh þat was to hem offred; but þay tooke by force þe fleissch þat is raw; [901] Certes so þese schrewes holde hem not appayed with rosted fleissh and sode fleissh wiþ whiche þe poeple feeden hem in gret reuerence. But þay wil haue raw fleisch of folkes wyues and here douȝtres [902] ¶ And certes þese wommen þat consenten to here harlotrie don gret wrong to crist and to holy chirche and alle halwes / and to alle soules for þay bireuen alle þese hem þat schulde worschipe crist and holy chirche and praye for cristen soules [903] ¶ And þerfore han suche prestis & here lemmans eeke þat consenten to here leccherie þe malisoun of al þe court cristian til þay come to amendement
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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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