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

[6-text p 667] [904] ¶ The þridde spice of aduoutry is som tyme bitwix a man and his wif and þat is whan þay take noon reward in her assembling but only to þe fleischly delit as saith seint Ierom. [905] and ne rekke of no þing but þat þay be assemblid by cause þat þay ben maried. al is good ynough as þinkith hem. [906] But in suche folk haþ þe deuel power as saith þe aungel Raphael to Thoby in here assemblyng þay putten ihū crist out of her herte. and ȝiuen hemself to alle ordure [907] ¶ The ferthe spice is þe assemble of hem þat ben of here kynrede or of hem þat ben of oon affinite or elles wiþ hem wiþ whiche here fadres or here kynrede han delitid in þe synne of leccherie. þis synne makith hem like houndes þat taken noon heede of kynrede [908] and certes parenteal is in tuo maneres eyþer gostly or fleisshly. gostly as for to dele wiþ her gossib. [909] For riȝt / so as he þat engendrith a child is his fleisshly fader; Riȝt so is his godfader his fader espirituel. for which a womman may in no lasse synne assemble wiþ hir gossib þan wiþ hire oughne fleischly fader or broþer [910] ¶ The fifte spice of þilke abhominable synne of which þat no man unneþe oughte to speke ne write. naþeles it is openly rehersed in holy wryt/. [911] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] but þough þat holy writ speke of horrible synne; Certes holy writ may not be defouled no more þan þe sonne þat schyneth on a dongehul [912] ¶ Anoþer synne appertenith to lecchery þat comeþ in sleping. & þis synne comeþ ofte to hem þat ben maydenes and eek to hem þat ben corrupte and þis synne men clepen pollucioun þat cometh in .iiij. maners [913] ¶ Som tyme of languisschynge of body for þe humours ben to ranke and to abundaunt in þe body [folio 280a] of man. somtyme of infirmite for þe feblenesse of þe vertu retentyf as phisik makeþ mencioun. And som tyme for surfete of mete and drynke. [914] som tyme of
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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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