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

[6-text p 623] for delite; þat þei bien so faire fatte & costlewe; [433] And also mony a viciouse knave ymayntende be cause of hem; And in to corious harneyse; as in sadels in cropreres. peytrelles; & bridelles couerd wiþ precious cloþe & riche Barres; & plates of gold. & of siluere; [434] For whiche god seiþe by Sacarie þe prophet; I. wil confounde þe riders of suche horses; [435] This folke taken litel rewardeinge of þe rideinge of goddes sonne of heuen and of his harneys . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] bot cloþes of his pouere disciples Ne we rede nouȝt þat euer he rode on oþere beste; [436] I speke þus of þe sinne of superfluyte; And nouht for þe resonable honeste; whan reson it requireþ; [437] ¶ And forþer ouere Certes pride is gretly notified in holdeinge of grete meigne; when þei bien of luytel profite or riht of no profite; [438] And namely whan þat meneȝe is felenous & damage|ous to þe people by hardynesse of hihe lordeschippe; or be way of office [439] ¶ For certes suche lordes; fullen þan her lorschipe to þe deuel of hell; whan þe susteigne þe wykkednesse of here menȝe; [440] Or elles whan þis folke of lowe degre; as þilke þat holden hosteleries; And þat is in mony maner of folke þat susteyne þeft for hire ostelers; And þat is in mony maner of disceytes: [441] þilke maner of folke bien þe flyes þat folowen þe hony. Or elle þe hundes þat þat folowen þe Careyne; Whiche for-seide folke stranglen spirituelye her lordschippes; [442] ffor whiche þus seiþ dauid þe prophette; Wikked deþ mot comme on þilke lordeschipes; And god ȝeue þat þei mote descende adoune in to helle; ffor in hire houses bien iniquitees; And schrewnessis & not god of heuen; [443] And certes bot if þei done amende|ment; Riht so as god ȝaf his blissinge to pharao be þ[e s]eruice of Iacob; And to laban be þe seruice of Ioseph; Riht so god wol ȝeue his malison to suche lordeschips And to susteine þe wikkednesse of her seruantes; but þei
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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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