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

[6-text p 624] come to amendement [444] pride of the table apeereþ [[Pride] of the table.] eek ful ofte / for certes riche men ben clepid to festes / and pouere folk ben put awey & rebuked / [445] ¶ Also in exces / of diuerse metes & drynkes / and namely [[Exces]se of mete] swiche manere bake metes & disshmetes brennynge of wilde fyr & peynted & castelled with papir / & semblable wast / so þat it is abusion for to thynke ‖ [446] And eek in to gret preciousnesse of vessel / & curiositee of Mynstralcie / by whiche / a man is stired the moore / to delices of luxure [447] ¶ If so be þat he sette his herte the lasse / vp on oure lord Ihu crist certeyn it is a synne / & certeynly the delices / myghte ben so grete [And yf thou wyest what thyng yt were Coneng to lerne [in a third hand]] in the cas / þat man myghte lightly fallen by hem in to dedly synne / [448] ¶ The especes that sourdren of pride / soothly whan they sourden of malice ymagyned & auysed / & forncast or ellis of vsage / ben dedly synnes / it is no doute / [449] and whan they sourde by freletee / vn|auysed sodeynly / & sodeynly / withdrawe agayn / al be they greuouse synnes / I gesse / that they ne be nat dedly [450] ¶ Now myghte men axe / wher of þat pryde [[Whe]r of cometh pryde.] sourdeth & spryngeth / And I seye som tyme it spryngeth of the goodes of nature / and somtyme of the goodes of fortune / & som tyme / of the goodes of grace / [451] ¶ Certes the goodes of nature / stonden outher in goodes of body / or goodes of soule ‖ [452] [[g]oodes of body] Certes / goodes of body / ben heele of body / strengthe / delyuernesse / beautee / genterie / franchise [453] ¶ goodes of nature of the soule ben good wit [[good]es of the soule.] sharpe vnderstondynge / subtil engyn / vertu naturel / good memorie [454] ¶ goodes of fortune / ben richesses / [[good]es of fortune.] hey degrees of lordshipes / preisynges of the peple [455] ¶ goodes of grace / ben Science / power to suffre spiritual trauaille / benygnytee / vertuous contemplacion / withstondynge of temptacion ¶ and semblable thynges / [456] of whiche forseyde goodes / certes it is a ful gret folie a man to pryden hym in any of hem alle / [457]
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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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