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

[6-text p 637] herte. bones. and body ¶ ffor certes / it semeth that ye thynke / that the cursede Iewes / ne dismembred nat ynough the preciouse persone of crist. but ye dismembre hym moore / [592] ¶ And if so be / that the lawe com|pelle yow to swere /. thanne rule yow / after the lawe of god in youre sweryng. as seith Ieremye .4o. co . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] ¶ Thou shalt kepe .iij. condicions Thou shalt swere in trouthe /. [¶ Iurabis in veritate in Iudicio & in Iusticia] in doom. / and in rightwisnesse ‖. [593] this is to seyn / thou shalt swere sooth /. for euery lesynge is agayns Crist. ffor crist is verray trouthe /. And thynk wel this / that euery greet swerere / nat compelled lawefully to swere /. the wounde shal nat departe from his hous / whil he vseth / swich vnleueful sweryng ‖. [594] Thou shalt sweren eek in doom / whan thou art constreyned by thy domes|man / to witnessen the trouthe [595] ¶ Eek [folio 223b] thow shalt [¶ How a man shal nat swere / for enuye / ne for fauour / ne for meede / but for rightwisnesse &c.] nat swere / for enuye ne for fauour / ne for meede / but for rightwisnesse / and for declaracion of it /. to the worshipe of god / and helpyng of thyne euene cristene /. [596] And therfore / euery man that taketh goddes name in ydel /. or falsly swereth with his mouth /. or elles taketh on hym the name of crist. to be called a cristene man / and lyueth agayns Cristes luyunge and his techynge / alle they / taken goddes name in ydel / [597] ¶ Looke eek / what seint Peter seith Actuum .4o. Non est aliud nomen sub celo &c ¶ Ther [¶ sanctus Petrus Actuum .4o.] nys noon oother name seith seint Peter / vnder heuene yeuen to men / in which they mowe be saued /. that is to seyn / but the name of Ihesu crist [598] ¶ Take kepe eek / how that the precious name of crist /. as seith seint Paul / [¶ Paulus ad Philipenses 2o.] ad Philipenses .2o. In nomine Ihesu &c ¶ that in the name of Ihesu / euery / knee of heuenely creatures /. or erthely. or of helle sholden bowe /. for it is / so heigh and so worshipful / that the cursede feend in helle / sholde tremblen / to heeren it ynempned [599] ¶ Thanne semeth it that men þat sweren so horriblely / by 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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