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

[6-text p 636] in diuerse contres; [581] þis cursed sinne done þei; when þei felen in her hert ful wikkedly of god & his halowes. [582] ¶ Also whan þei treten vnreuerently þe sacrament of þe auter ¶ þilke sinnes bien. so grete þat vnneþ þei maie be relest; bot þat þe mercye of god passeþ his werkes it is so grete & so benigne; [583] ¶ þan comeþ of Ire attrye angur; whān a man scharpely amonesched in his schrift for to lete sinne; [584] þan wil he hangry And ansewere hokerlye & angerly; or defende & excuse his sinne be vnstedfastnesse of his flesche; or elles he dide it for to holde compaignye with wyse felawes; Or elles he seiþe þe fende entised hime; [585] or elles he dide it for his ȝouþe or elles his complexion is so corageous þat he mai nouht for bere; or elles it is his destanye as he seiþe vnto a certeine age; or elles; he seiþe it commeþ him of gentilles of his auncestres and semblable þinges [586] ¶ All þese maner of folke so wrappen hem in her sinnes þat þei ne wol nouht deliueren he self; ffore soþely no þat excuseþ him wilfully; of his sinne; may not be deliuered of his sinne til þat he mekely be-knoweþ his sinne. [587] ¶ After þat commeþ swereinge þat is expresse aȝeines þe commandement of god And þis befalleþ oft of anger & of ire; [588] God seiþe; þou schalt nouht take þe name of þine lorde god in veyne ne in ydel. Also oure lorde ihesu seiþ be þe worde of seint Mathewe . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [589] Ne wil ȝe nouht swere in al manere Neyþere be heuen for it is goddes throne. Ne by erþe for it is þe bynche of his feete Ne by iherusalem; For it is þe Cite of a grete kynge; ne be þin hede; for þou maist nouȝt maake an her white ne blake; [590] Bot seiþe be ȝoure ȝe. ȝe. & nay. naye; And what þat is more it is yuel. þus seiþe criste; [591] ffor cristes saake ne swereþ nouht so sinfully in dismembringe of criste by soule.
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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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