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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[6-text p 603] in no manere; [206] And þerfor in hell is no frenschippe Bot euer þe more fflessly kinred þat buen in hell; þe more curseinge & þe more chide|inge þe more dedely hate þere is ymonge hem; [207] And ferþere ouere þei scholen haue defaut of al manere delices; For whi þe delites bene þe Appetites of þe five wittes; as siht; hereynge; Sauereinge; Smel|inge; & toucheinge; [208] Bot in hell here siht schal be ful of derknesse & smoke; & ful of teres; And here hereinge ful of waymentynge & of grontinge of teþe As seiþ ihesu crist. [209] Her nose|þrelles schal be ful of stinkinge stinke; And as seiþe ysayas þe prophete. Here Sauereinge schal be ful of bitter gall; [210] And toucheinge of hire body couerd wiþ fire. þat neuer schal be quenched; and wiþ wormes þat neuer schall diȝen. As god seide be þo mouþe of Isaye; [211] And for alsomuche as þei schol not wene þat þei mei deyen for peyne. & be hire deþ flie fro peyne; þat maie vnder-stonde be þe worde of Iobe; þat seiþ þere [folio 233b] as is þe schadow of deþe; [212] Certes a schadowe haþe likenesse of þe þinge of whiche it is schadow; Bot þe schadowe is nouht þe same þinge of whiche it is schadowe [213] Riht so fareþ þe peyne of hell; It is like deþe for þe angwysshe orrible And whie; ffor it peyneþ hem euere as þouhe men schold dyen anone; Bot certes þei schol not deye [214] ¶ For as seiþe seint Gregorie to wrecched kaytifes schal be deþe with owten deþ; And ende wiþ outen ende; And defaute with oute faileinge; [215] ffor here deþ schal alwey lyfe; And here ende schal euermore be ginne; And here defaute schal nouht faile [216] ¶ And þere fore seiþ seint Iohn þe Euaungeliste; Thei schal folowen deþ & þei schal nouht finden him; And þei desiren to deye; And deþ schal flye fro hem; [217] And Eke Iob seiþ; þat in hell is none order of Reule; [218] ¶ And all be it so þat god haþe created al þinge in riht ordre & noþinge with
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The Lansdowne ms 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 N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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