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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 667] [904] ¶ The thredde spece of auouterye; is sumtyme be-twixe a man & his wif / And that is whan they take no reward in here assemblynge; but only to here fleschly delit / as seyth seynt Ierome / [905] and ne rekkyn of no thyng but that they been assemblit / bi cause that they been maryed / al is good I-now as thynkyth to hem / [906] but in swich folk / hat the deuyl power as seit the aungel Raphael to Thobie / for in here assemblynge they putte Ihesu crist out of here herte & ȝeuyn hem self to alle ordure. [907] The forte spece is the assemblynge of hem that been of . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] oon affynytee. Or ellis of hem with whiche here faderis / or here kenrede han delid / in the synne of lecherye / this synne makyth hem lyk to houndys that take no keep to kenrede. [908] And certis parentele is in two manerys othir gostely oth[ir] fleschly. Gostly as for to dele with his gossib. [909] for rygh so as he that engenderyth a child / is his fleschely fadyr; rygh so is his godfadyr his fadyr esspirytuel. for whiche a weman may in no lasse synne assemble with hire gossib than with hire owene fleyschely brothyr. [910] ¶ The fyfte spece is. thilke abo [folio 436b] mynable synne of whiche abhomynable synne that no man onethe oughte speke of . . . . .[911] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] horrible synne . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] that schynyth on the myxene. [912] A nothir synne apartenyth to lecherye that comyth slepynge and this synne comyth ofte to hem that been maydenys And ek to hem that been corupt & this synne men clepyn polucioun that comyth of iij manerys / [913] Sumtyme of languyschynge of body for the humouris been to ranke & habundant in the body of man / Sumtyme of Infyrmyte for the febillesse of the vertu retentyf / as Phisyk makyth mencyoun Sumtyme of surfeet of mete & drynk. [914] And sumtyme of
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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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