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

[6-text p 604] outen order; Bot al þinges bene ordeyned & nom|bred; ȝete naþeles þei þat bue dampned bien no þinge in ordre ne holde no þinge in ordre. [219] ffor þe erþe schal bere hem no fruyte. [220] For as þe prophet seiþe dauid; God schal destruye þe fruyte of þe erþe as fro hem; ne water schal ȝeue hem no moystur. ne þe eyer no refrissheinge; ne fire no lyht; [221] For as seiþe seint Basile; The birneinge of þe fire of þis werlde schal god gif in hell to hem þat bu dampned; [222] Bot þe liht & þe clerenesse. schal be ȝouen in to heuen to his childerne; Riht as þe good man giffeþ flesshe to his childerne and bones to his hondes; [223] And for þei schol haue none hope to escape seiþe Iobe; Att þe laste; þat þere schold orroure & grisely drede dwel wiþ outen ende; [224] Orrour is alwei drede of harme þat is to comme; And þis drede schal euer dwell in þe hertes of hem þat bu dampned ¶ And for þat haueþ þei lorne al here hope for vij. causes; [225] ffirst for god þat is hire Iuge schal bue wiþ outen mercy to hem. Ne þei may not plese him ne none of his halowes ne þei maie ȝeue no þinge for hire Raunson; [226] Ne þei haue no voice to speke to him; ne þei maie not fliȝe fro peine ne þei haue no goodenesse in hem þat þei maie schew to deliuer hem fro peine; [227] ¶ And þerefore seiþe Salomon þe wykked man deyeþ; And whan he is dede he schal haue no hope to ascape fro peyne [228] ¶ Who so schame will wele vn|derstonde þes peynes & be þinke him wele þat he haþe deserued þilke peynes for his sinnes; Certes he schold haue more talent to sike & to wepe; þan for to singen & to pley; [229] ¶ For as seiþ Salomon. Who so þat hadde þe science for to knowe; þe peynes þat buen þat ystablisshed for sinne; he wold maake sorwe; [230] ¶ þilke science as seiþe seinte Austine. Makeþ a man to weyment in his herte;

[231] ¶ þe ferþe point þat ouhte maake a man

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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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