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

[6-text p 610] manere schal be his contricion; .I. say þat it schal bue vniuersale & totale; þis is to sei a man schal be verrey repentant for al his sinnes þat he haþ done in delite of his þouht; ffor delite is ful perilous; [293] ffor þer bien tuo maners of consentynges; þat one of hem is cleped consentynge of affeccioune whan a man is meved to do synne & deliteþ him longe for to þinke on þat sinne; [294] He haþe reson þat perteyneþ wele þat it is sinne aȝeines þe lawe of god; . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] Al þouhe his reson ne consent noȝt to do þe sinne in dede; [295] ȝut seine somme doctours þat suche delite þat dwelleþ longe is ful perilouse; al be it neuer so lite; [296] And also a man scholde sorwe for al þat; þat euer he haþ desired aȝeines þe lawe of [folio 235b] god with perfite consentinge of resoun; ffor þere of is no doute þat it ne is dedely sinne; In þe consentynge [297] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] & in to þe dede; [298] where for .I. seye þat many men ne repenten hem neuere of suche þouhtes & delices ne neuer schreuen hem of it bot onely of þe dede of grete sinnes vtwarde. [299] where for .y. saye þat suche wikked delites & wikked þouhtes bien subtile begillours of hem þat scholne be dampned; [300] More ouere man ouht to sorwen For his wikked wordes; as for his wikked dedes ¶ For certes þe repentance of a singuler sinne and nouhte repent of al his oþere sinnes; or elles repent him of al his oþere sinnes; & not of singulere sinne maye nouht aveile [301] ¶ For certes almyhti god; is al goode. And þerfor he for-ȝeueþ all; or elles riht nouht; [302] And here of seiþe seint Augustine.I. wote certeinly [303] þat god is enmy to euery sinner; And howe þan he þat obserueþ o synne schal he haue forȝeuenesse of þe
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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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