Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[6-text p 623] for delite / that ben so faire fatte / and costelewe / [433] And also many a vicious knave I-mayntened [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 281b] bi|cause of hem // And in to curious harneyse / as in sadels cropers / peitresles / bridles couered with precious clothinge & riche barres / & plates / of golde & of siluer / [434] ffor whiche god seith bi Zakarie the [¶ Zakarias.] prophete / I wol confounde the riders of suche horses / [435] This folke taken litel rewarde of the ridynge of god-is sone of heuen / & of his harneys whan he rode vppon the Asse / & had noon othir harneys but the clothes of his pore disciples / Ne we rede nat that euer he rode on other beste / [436] I speke thus of the sinne of superfluite / & nat for the resonable honeste / whan reson it requirith // [437] And forther ouere / certes pride is gretely notefied in holdynge of grete meyne / whan thei ben of litel profite / or right of no profite / [438] & namely whan meyne is vileynous & damage|ous to the peple / bi hardynesse of high lordshippe or bi wey of office // [439] ffor certes suche lordes sellen than here lordshippes to the deuel of helle / whan thei sustene the wikkednesse of here meyne // [440] Or elles whan these folke of lowe degre / as tho that holden hosteleries / & that is many manere of folke / that susteynen theffte / for here Ostelers / & that is in manere of disseites / [441] thilke manere of folke ben the flyes of felonye that fole|wen the hony / or elles the houndes that folowen the careyne / suche forseide folke strangelen spirituely here lordshippes // [442] ffor whiche thus seith Dauid the prophete wikked [¶ Dauid] dethe mote come to thilke lordshippes / & god yeue that thei mowe descende a-doun in-to helle / ffor in here houses ben iniquitees & shrewdenesse & not god of heuen / [443] And certes but if thei do amende|ment / right so as god yaff his beneson to kyng Pharao bi the service of Iacob / and to Laban bi the seruise of Ioseph right so god wol yeue his malison to suche lordshippes / as susteyne the wikkednesse / of here seruauntes / but thei
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The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,
1868-[1869]

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