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The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[6-text p 233] mai a-nothir tyme releue the & helpe // [2681] Ȝit sette I caas ȝe han bothe a lycence / for to venge ȝow / [2682] I seye that theere been ful manye thyngis / that schul restreyne ȝow of vengeaunce takynge / [2683] & make ȝow for to enclyne to sufferre & for to han pacience / in the wrongis that han been don to ȝow / [2684] fferst & foreward ȝif ȝe wele / considere the defautis / . . . . .[2685] . . . . . [no gap] god hath suffered ȝow to haue this tribulacioun / as I haue seyd ȝow heere by-fore / [2686] For the Poete seyth that we ouȝtyn paciently / takyn the tribu|laciounnys that comyn to vs whan that we thynkyn & con|sideryn that we han deseruyd to han hem [2687] ¶ And seynt Gregorie seyth that whan a man considerith weel the noumbere of hise defautis & of hise synnys / [2688] the peynys & the tribulaciounnys that he sufferyth semyn the lasse vnto hym / [2689] And in as meche as hym sem|yth his synne is moore heuy / & greuous [2690] in so meche semyth his peyne the lyȝtere & the esiere vnto hym // [2691] Also ȝe owyn to enclyne / & bowe ȝoure herte to [folio 341b] take the pacience [[MS repeats the pacience]] of oure lord Ihesu cryst / as seyth seynt petyr / In hise episteles / [2692] Ihesu Crist he seith hath suffered for vs / & ȝeuyn ensample to euery man to folwe / & sewyn hym / [2693] for he dede neuere synne ne neuere cam there / A vileyns word out of his mouth [2694] whan men cursede hym; he cursede hem not / . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [2695] Also the greete pacience / whiche seyntis that been in paradys han had in tribulaciounnys / that they been I-sufferid with-outyn here desert or gilt / [2696] oughte meche stere ȝow to pacience / [2697] Ferthere more ȝe schul enforse ȝow to haue pacience / [2698] considerynge that the tribulaciounnys / of this world but lityl while endure / & soone passede been & goone / [2699] And the Ioye that a man sekyth for to han bi pacience in trybulaciounnys / is perdurable / aftyr that
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The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) 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 K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,
1868-1879.

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