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 637] herte / bones / & body / ffor certes it semeth that ye thenke the cursed Iewes dismembred him nought I-nough / . . [no gap in the MS.] but ye dismembren him more / [592] And if so be the lawe com|pelle yow to swere / than shul ye reule yow after the lawe of god in youre swerynge / As seith seint Ierome in .iiij.the chap|itle [¶ Ierome.] / . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] Thow shalt kepe .iij. condicions / thow shalt swere in trouthe / in dome / & in rightwisnesse / [593] this is to seyne thow shalt swere sooth / for euery lesing is ayeines criste / ffor criste in verray trouthe / And thenke wel this / That euery grete swerer / nat compelled lawfully to swere / the wounde shal nat departe from his hous / whiles he vsith suche vnlawful swerynge / [594] Thou shalt swere eke in dome / whan thow art constreyned bi the Domes|man to wittnesse the trouthe / [595] Eke thou shalt nat swere for envie ne for fauour / ne for mede / but for trouthe & rightwisnesse the declaracion of hit to the wourshippe of god / & to helpinge of thin euen cristen / [596] And therfore euery man that taketh the name of god in ydel / or falsly swerith with his mouthe / or ellis taketh on him the name of criste to be called a cristen man / & levith ayeins cristes levynge & his techinge / alle thei taken godis name in ydel / [597] Loke eke what seith seint Peter [¶ Petrus.] Actuum .iiijto. Non est aliud nomen sub celo / Ther [act .iiijto.] nys noon other name seith seint Peter vnder heuen / I-youen to men in whiche thei mowe be saued / that is to seine / but in the name of Ihesu criste / [598] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] As seith seint Poule / [¶ Paule.] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] that in the name of Ihesu euery kne of heuenly creatures / or erthely / or of helle shulle bowe / for hit is so high & so wourshipful / that the cursed fende in helle sholde tremble for to hire hit nempned / [599] Than semeth hit that men that sweren so horribly bi his
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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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