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The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[6-text p 319] Whan he of wyn / was repleet at his feeste Right at his owene table / he yaf his heeste To sleen the Baptist Iohn / ful giltelees ¶ Senec seith a good word doutelees [¶ Seneca] 492 He seith / he kan no difference fynde [folio 142b] Bitwix a man / that is out of his mynde And a man / which that is dronkelewe But that woodnesse / fallen in a shrewe 496 Perseuereth lenger/ than dooth dronkenesse O glotonye / ful of cursednesse O cause first of oure confusion O original / of oure dampnacion 500 Til Crist/ hadde boght vs / with his blood agayn Lo / how deere / shortly for to sayn Aboght was / thilke cursed vileynye Corrupt was al this world for glotonye 504 ¶ Adam oure fader / and his wyf also ffro Paradys / to labour and to wo Were dryuen for that vice / it is no drede 507 ffor whil þat Adam fasted / as I rede [¶ Ieronimus contra Ioui|nianum ‖ Quamdiu ieiu|nauit Adam / in Paradiso fuit/ comedit & eiectus est/ statim duxit vxorem] He was in Paradys / and whan þat he? Eet of the fruyt/ deffended on the tree Anon he was out cast to wo and peyne O glotonye / on thee wel oghte vs pleyne 512 O wiste a man / how manye maladyes ffolwen of excesse / and of glotonyes He wolde been / the moore mesurable Of his diete / sittynge at his table 516 Allas / the shorte throte / the tendre mouth Maketh þat Est and West and North and South In Erthe / in Eir / in water/ man to swynke To gete a gloton / deyntee mete and drynke 520 Of this matiere / o Paul wel kanstow trete Mete vn-to wombe / and wombe eek vn-to mete [¶ Esca ventri & venter escis. deus autem & hunc & illam destruet /] Shal god destroyen bothe / as Paulus seith Allas / a foul thyng is it/ by my feith 524
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The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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