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

[6-text p 672] [954] Soothly. a whit wal. al-though it ne brenne noght fully by stikynge of a candele. yet is the wal blak of the leyt. [955] ¶ fful ofte tyme I rede. þat no man truste in [¶ Nota] his owene perfeccion but he be stronger than Sampson. & hoolier than Danyel. & wiser than Salomon

[956] ¶ Now after þat I haue declared yow as I kan the seuene deedly synnes and somme of hire braunches and hire remedies; soothly if .I. koude .I. wolde telle yow the ten comandementz. [957] but so heigh a doctrine I lete to diuines. nathelees I hope to god. they been touched in this tretice euerich of hem alle

¶ Sequitur secunda pars Penitencie .

[958]

NOw for as muche. as the second partie of Penitence. stant in Confession of mouth / as I bigan in the firste Chapitre / I seye. seint Augustyn seith [What synne is. secundum Augustinum] [959] ¶ Synne is euery word and euery dede. and al þat men coueiten agayn the lawe of Ihesu crist. and this is for to synne. in herte. in mouth. and in dede by thy fiue wittes. that been. sighte. herynge. smellynge. tastynge / [¶ Memorandum mors intrauit/ per fenestras] or sauourynge. and feelynge; [960] Now is it good to vnderstonde that. þat agreggeth muchel [folio 233b] euery synne [¶ Of thynges þat agreggeth synne. and the firste is this] [961] ¶ Thow shalt considere / what thow art þat doost the synne / wheither thou be male or femele. yong/ or oold. gentil or thral. free / or seruant. hool / or syk. wedded or sengle. ordred / or vnordred. wys or / fool. clerk / or seculeer. [962] if she be of thy kynrede / bodily or goostly or noon / if any of thy kynrede haue synned with hire or noon /. and manye mo thinges

[963] ¶ Another circumstaunce is this. wheither it be [¶ The .ij.^de circumstaunce] doon in fornicacion or in Auowtrie or noon / Incest or noon /. mayden or noon. in manere of homicide / or noon. horrible grete synnes / or smale. and how longe thou hast continued in synne [964] ¶ The thridde circumstance / is [¶ The .iij.^de circumstaunce] the place / ther thou hast do synne. wheither in oother

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 668
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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