The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

[6-text p 643] þat trauaillen in the seruice of Crist / right so comforten the veleyns wordes and knakkes of Iapers hem þat travaillen in þe seruice of the devill / [653] þise ben the synnes þat commen of the tunges þat commen of Ire / and other synnes moo.

Hic Ire tractus desinit / & remedium eiusdem Incipit/.

[654]

THe Remedye ayeinst Ire / is a vertue þat men clepen Mansuetude þat is debonairtee / and eke another vertue / þat men callen Pacience or suffraunce /

[655] Debonairtee withdraweth / and restreyneth / þe sterynges of þe meuynges of mannes corage in his hert/ in soch maner þat þey ne skippe nat out by angre ne bi Ire / [656] Suffraunce suffreth swetely all the anoysaunces / and þe wronges / þat men doon to man outward/ [657] Seint Ierom seith thus of debonairtee / þat it dooth noon harme to no wight/ ne seith ne for noon harme / þat men doon or seyn / he ne eschaufeth nat his reson [658] This vertue somtyme comth of nature / for as seith the Philosophre / A man is a qwyk thyng / by nature debonaire and tretable to godenesse But whan debonairtee is enfourmed of grace / þan is it þe more worth /

[659] Pacience / þat is another Remedye / ayeinst Ire / for it is a vertue þat suffreth swetely / euery mannes godenesse/ and nat wroth / for noon harme / þat is don to hym / [660] The Philosophre seith / þat Pacience ys thilk vertue / þat suffreth / debonairlye all the outrages of aduersitee / and euery wykked worde / [661] this vertue maketh a man lyke to god / and maketh hym goddes owen dere child / as seith Crist / this vertue discomfyteth thyn enemy And therfore seith the wise man yf þou wolt venqwyssh þyn enemy lerne to suffre [662] And þou shalt vnderstonde / þat man suffreth .iiij. maner

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 636
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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