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

[6-text p 603] in no manere / [206] and therfore / [in helle] is no solas / ne no freendshipe / but euere / the moore flesshly kynredes / that been in helle /. the moore cursynges / the more chid|ynges / and the moore deedly hate / ther is among hem [207] ¶ And forther ouer / they shul haue defaute of alle [¶ How the dampned shul haue defaute of alle manere delices] manere delices / for certes delices / been after the appetites of the .v. wittes /. as sighte /. herynge. smellynge /. sauor|ynge./ and touchynge /. [208] but in helle / hir sighte shal be ful of derknesse and of smoke. and therfore / ful of teeres /. and hir herynge / ful of waymentynge / and of gryntynge of teeth / as seith Ihesu crist. [209] hir nose|thirles shullen be ful of stynkynge stynk/. And as seith Ysaye the prophete /. hir savoryng shal be ful of bitter [¶ Ysayas propheta] galle /. [210] and touchynge of al hir body / ycouered with fir that neuere shal quenche / and with wormes that neuere shul dyen / as god seith / by the Mouth of [¶ dominus per Ysayam] Ysaye /. [211] And for as muche as they shul nat wene / that they may dyen for peyne / and by hir deeþ flee fro peyne / that may they vnderstonden by the word of Iob /. [¶ Iob] that seith / ther as is the shadwe of deeth [212] ¶ Certes a shadwe / hath the liknesse of the thyng. of which it is shadwe /. but shadwe is nat the same thyng of which it is shadwe [213] ¶ Right so fareth the peyne of helle / it is [¶ Exemplum] lyk deeth for the horrible angwissh /. and why? for it peyneth hem euere / as though they sholde dye anon / but certes / they shal nat dye [214] ¶ ffor / as seith Seint [¶ sanctus Gregorius] Gregorie ¶ To wrecche caytyues / shal be deeth with-oute deeth / and ende with-outen ende / and defaute with-oute failynge / [215] for hir deeth / shal alwey lyuen / and hir ende / shal eueremo bigynne / and hir defaute shal nat faille [216] ¶ And therfore / seith Seint Iohn the [¶ Sanctus Iohannes Euaungelista] Euaungelist /. They shullen folwe deeth / and they shul nat fynde hym /. and they shul desiren to dye / and deeth shal flee fro hem [217] ¶ And eek Iob seith / that in helle [¶ Iob] is noon ordre of rule /. [218] and al be it so that god hath creat alle thynges in right ordre / and no thyng/ with|outen
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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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