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

[6-text p 607] of the trauailes þat oure lord Ihu crist suffred / in prechynge / [257] his werynesse in trauailynge / hise tempt|acions whan he fasted / hise longe wakynges whan he preyed / hise teerys whan þat he weep for pitee of good peple / [258] the wo / and the shame / & the filthe þat men seyden to hym / of the foule spittyng þat men spitte on his face / of the buffettes that men yaue hym / of the fowle Mowwes & of the re|preues þat men to hym seyden / [259] of the nayles / with whiche he was nayled to the croys / and of al the remenant of his passion / þat he suffred for my synnes / and no thyng for his gilt ‖ [260] And ye shal vnder|stonde / þat in mannes synne / is euery manere ordre of ordinance / turned vp so down / [261] for it is sooþ þat god /. and reson /. and sensualitee. & the body of man / ben so ordeyned / þat euerich of thise .iiij. thynges / sholde haue lordshipe ouer that oother / [262] as thus /. god sholde haue lordshipe ouer reson / & reson ouer Sensualitee / & Sensualitee ouer the body of man / [263] but soothly / whan man synneth / al this ordre / or ordinance / is turned vp so down / [264] and therfore [folio 241b] thanne / for as muche as the reson of man / ne wol nat be subget ne obeisant to god / þat is his lord by right /; ther|fore leseth it the lordshipe / þat it sholde haue in Sensualitee / & eek ouer the body of man / [265] and why / for Sensualitee rebelleth thanne agayns reson / and by that wey / leseth reson the lordshipe ouer Sensualitee & ouer the body / [266] for right as reson is rebel to god / right so is bothe sensualitee rebel to reson & the body also ‖ [267] and certes this desordinance & this rebellion / oure lord Ihu crist aboghte / vp on his precious body ful deere / and herkneth in which wise ‖ [268] for as muche thanne / as reson is rebel to god / ther|fore is man worthy to haue sorwe / and to be deed / [269] this suffred oure lord Ihu crist for man / after þat he hadde be bitraysed of his disciple and destreyned &
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The Hengwrt 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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