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

[6-text p 666] specyall meynye of god / ffor whiche whan thei done deedly synne thei bene the speciall traitours of god and off his poeple / ffor the lyven off the poeple and prayen for the poeple / and whil thei be suche traitours / her prayours availe nat to the poeple / [895] Prestes bene Aungellis as bi the dignyte of mysterie / but sothely seynt poule [/ Paulus /] seith that Sathanas transformyth hym in Aungel of liht / [896] Sothely the prest that hauntith deedly synne he may be lykened to the Aungell of derkenes transformed in the Aungell of light / he semyth an Aungell of liht / but forsothe he is an aungell off derkenes / [897] Suche prestes bene the sonnes of belial as sheweth in the booke of kynges / that thei were the [/ In libro Regum] sones of beliall. that is the devill / [898] Beliall is to seyn withouten Iuge and so fare thei that thynken thei be fre / and haue no Iuge no more than doth a fre boll that taketh suche a Cowe as hym lyketh in the towne / [899] so fare they by women For riht as a fre boll is Inouh for alle a toune / riht so is a wicked preste corrupcioun Inowh for all a parysshe or for alle a contreie / [900] Thes prestes as seith the booke ne comme not to the mysterie of presthode to the poeple ne to god ne knowe thei not ne the holde hem not apayed as seith the booke of suche flesshe that was to hem offerid / but thei take bi force the flesshe that is rawe / [901] Certes so thes olde shrewes holde hem not apayed of rostid flesshe and sode flesshe / with whiche the poeple feden hem on grete reverence but thei will haue rawe flessh of folkes wyves and her douhteris [902] And certes thes women that consentyn to her harlotry done gret wronge to Crist and holy Chriche and alle halows / and to alle sowles / ffor thei berevyn hym alle thes that sholde worship crist and hooly chirche and pray for cristen sowles / [903] And therfore haue [Addit. MS. 5140 folio 349a] suche prestes and her lemans eke that consentyn to her lecherye the malison off alle cristen courte tille thei come to Amendement //
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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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