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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 628] And al this is by enuye // [488] Certis thane is enuye the werste synne that is / For sothly alle othere synnys / been sumtyme onli a-geyns on special vertu / [489] But certis enuye / is a-geyns alle othere wertuis a-geyns alle goodnesse / for it is sory of alle the bounteis / of his neghebour And in this manere / it is dyuerse from alle othere synnys [490] For weel onethe is there ony synne / that it ne hath sum delit in it self / saue only enuye / that euere hat in it self / Angwissch & sorwe // [491] The spicis of enuye ben these / theere is ferst sorwe of othere menys goodnesse / & of his pros|perite / & prosperite is kyndeli mater of ioye / Thanne is enuye a synne a-geyns kynde / [492] The secunde spice of enuye / is Ioye of othere menys harm / & that is proprely lyk to the deuyl that euere reioyeth hym of othere manys harm [493] ¶ Of these two spycys / comyth bakbytynge And this synne of bakbitynge / or detrac|tyoun hath serteyn spicis / as thus sum man preyseth his neighebour by a wekede entent [494] For he makyth alwey a wekkede knotte / at the laste ende . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] that is digne of moore blame / than worth [folio 417a] is al the preysynge / [495] The secunde spice is that ȝif a man be goode / & doth or seyth a thyng to good entent / the bakbitere wele turne al thilke goodnesse vp so doun / to hise schrewede entent / [496] The iij is to amenuse the bounte / of his neighe|boure / [497] The ferthe spice of bakbytynge is this that ȝif men speke goodnesse of a man / thanne wele the bakbitere seyn / Parfey ȝit swich a man is bet than he / in dispreysynge of hym that men preyse / [498] The fifte spice is this / for to concente gladly & herkene gladly to the harm that men speke of othere folk this synne is ful gret / And ay encreseth aftyr the wekkede entent/ of the bakbytere [499] ¶ Aftyr bakbytynge comyth grochynge / or murmuracioun & sumtyme it sp[r]yingith of inpacience / a-geyns god & sumtyme a-geyns man /
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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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