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

[6-text p 629] [500] ¶ Agayns god it is / whan a man gruccheth agayn the peynes of helle /. or agayns pouerte /. or los of catel. agayn reyn / or tempest. or elles gruccheth / that shrewes han prosperitee /. or elles / for that goode men han Ad|uersitee / [501] and alle thise thynges sholde men suffre paciently /. for they comen by the rightful Iuggement and ordinance of god [502] ¶ Som tyme comth grucching of [¶ Of grucchyng/ þat comth of Auarice] Auarice / as Iudas grucched agayns the Magdaleyne /. whan she enoynte / the heued of oure lord Ihesu crist. with hir precious oynement [503] ¶ This maner murmure is swich. as whan man gruccheth / of goodnesse / þat hym self dooth /. or that oother folk doon of hir owene catel [504] ¶ Som tyme comth murmure of pride /. as whan Simon [¶ Of murmure þat comth of pride] the Pharisee / grucchched agayn the Magdaleyne / whan she approched to Ihesu crist. and weepe at his feet for hire synnes [505] ¶ And somtyme grucchyng sourdeth of [¶ Of murmure þat sourdeth of Enuye] Enuye / whan men discouereth a mannes harm that was pryuee / or bereth hym on hond / thyng that is fals [506] ¶ Murmure eek / is ofte amonges seruauntz / that grucchen / [¶ Of murmure amonges seruauntz] whan hir souereyns bidden hem doon leueful thynges /. [507] and for as muche / as they dar nat openly withseye the comaundementz of hir souereyns / yet wol they seyn harm / and grucche and murmure priuely for verray despit / [508] whiche wordes / men clepen the deueles Pater noster / though so be that the deuel ne hadde neuere Pater noster /. but that lewed folk yeuen it swich a name [509] ¶ Som tyme / grucchyng comth of Ire / or [¶ O grucchyng/ that/ cometh of Ire] priue hate / that norisseth rancour in herte /. as afterward I shal declare [510] Thanne cometh eek bitternesse of [¶ Of bitternesse of herte] herte / thurgh which bitternesse / euery good dede of his neighebor / semeth to hym / bitter and vnsauory [511] ¶ Thanne cometh discord / that vnbyndeth alle manere [¶ Of discord] of freendshipe ¶ Thanne comth / scornynge of . . . . . [¶ Of scornyng/] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] his neighe|bor / al do he neuer so weel [512] ¶ Thanne comth / [¶ Of Accusyng/] Accusynge /. as whan man seketh occasion / to anoyen his
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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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