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

[6-text p 613] nakede weren in paradise; And noþinge schame ne hadden of here nakednesse. [326] How þat þe serpent þat was most wyly of al oþere bestes þat god had maked seide to þe womman ¶ Commaunded god to ȝowe ȝe schold nouȝt of euery tre in paradise [327] The womman anseward; Of þe fruyte quod sche of þe trees in paradyse we feden vs bot soþely of þe fruyte of þe tre þat is in þe myddel of paradise; God for-bede vs for ete ne for to touche it lest parauentour we schold deyen; [328] þe serpent seid to þe womman Nay nay; ȝe schol nouȝt deye of deþe; for soþe god wote þat what daie ȝe eten þereof ȝoure eyȝen schal open And ȝe scholne bue as goddes knowynge goode & harme; [329] The womman sawhe þat þe tre was good to fedeinge & faire to þe yȝe & delitable to þe sihte Sche toke of þe fruyte of þe tree & ete of it; And ȝaf it to hir husbonde & he ete; And anone þe eyȝen of hem boþe opened; [330] And when þat þei knewe þat þei weren naked; þe sowde of fige leues in manere of breches to hiden hir membres; [331] ¶ Here maye ȝe see þat dedely sinne haþ furst suggestion of þe fende; As scheweþ here be Hadder; And afterward þe delite of þe flesche as scheweþe here by Eua; And after þat þe consentinge of þe resoun as scheweþ be adam; [332] For. trusteþ wele þouhe so were þat þe fende tempted one; þat is to saie þe flesshe And þe flesshe hadde delite in þe beaute of þe fruyte defended; ȝite certes til þat resoun; þat is to seie; Adam consen|tynge to þe eteynge of þe fruyte þat stode hihe in þe state of Innocence [333] ¶ Of þilke Adam toke we þilke sinne of originale for of him flesshely discended bu we all; and engenderd of vile & corrupte matier; [334] And whan þe soule is put in oure bodye riht anone is con|tracte originale sinne; And þat was erst bot onely peyne of concupiscence is afterewarde boþe peyne & sinne; [335] And þerefor be we al yborne sonnes of
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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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