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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 667] [904] The thirde spice of Auoutrie is somtyme bitwene a man and his wyf / and þat is whan þey make no rewarde in her assemblyng/ but onely to her flesshly delite as seith Seint Ierom [905] and rekken nat/ of no thyng/ but þat þey ben assembled / by cause / þat þey ben maried/ all is gode ynough þynketh to hem / [906] but in soch folk / hath þe devill power / As seid þe Aungell Raphael to Thobye / for in her assemblyng / þey putten Ihesu Crist out of her hert/ and yeven hem self to all ordure / [907] The .iiijth spice is / þe assemble of hem þat ben of her kynrede / or of hem þat ben of one affinitee / or elles with hem / with which her faders / or her kynrede han deled in the synne of lecherie / This synne maketh hem like to houndes / þat taken no kepe to kynrede [908] and certes parentele is in [Eg. 2726 folio 265b] Two maners either gostely or flesshly / gostely as for to delen with her gossibbes / [909] for right so as he þat engendreth a child is his flesshly fader right so is his godfader his espirituell/ for which a womman / may in no lesse synne / assemble with her gossipe / þan with hir owen flesshly broþere [910] The vte spice / is þat habhominable synne / of which þat no man vnneth ought speke ne write / Natheles it is openly reherced in holy writte / [911] this cursednesse doon men and wommen in diuers intent / and in diuers maner / But þough þat holy writte speke of horrible synne / certes holy writte / may nat be defouled no more þan þe son þat shyneth on þe myxene / [912] Another synne / apperteneth to lecherie / þat comth in slepyng and þis synne comth oft to hem þat ben maydens / and eke to hem þat ben corrupte / and this synne men clepen Polucion / þat comth in .iij. maners / [913] som tyme of langwysshyng of body / for the humours ben to rank/ and to habundant in þe body of man / Som tyme for Infirmitee / for the feblenesse of þe vertue retentyf/ as phisik maketh mension Somtyme for surfet / of mete and drynk / [914] and somtyme of
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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 ...
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,
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