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

[6-text p 637] hert. bones. & body; ffor certes it semeþ þat ȝe þenkeþ þat þe cursed Iewes dismembred him noȝt ynowhe; . . . [no gap in the MS.] bot ȝe dismembren him more; [592] ¶ And if so be þat þe lawe com|pell ȝow to swere; þan rewleþ ȝowe after þe lawe of god in ȝoure swereinge as seiþe Ieremye in þe iiij. capitle. . . . . [no gap in the MS.] þou schalt kepe þre condicions; þou schalt [folio 242a] swere in trouþe in dome & in rihtwisnesse; [593] þis to seine þou schalt swere soþe; for euery leseinge is aȝeines crist. For crist is verray trouþe; And þenke wele þis þat euery grete swerer nouht compelled lawfully to swere þe wounde schal not departe fro his house whiles he vseþ suche vnleful swereinge; [594] ¶ þou schalt swere eke in dome whan þou art constreynede by þi domes|man to wittnese þe trewþe; [595] Eke þou schalt nouht swere for envye ne for fauor ne for mede bot for rihtwisnesse for declareinge to worschipe of god; & to helpeinge of þine euen cristen; [596] And þerfore eueryman þat takeþ goddes name in ydel or falsely swereþ wiþ his mouþe or elles takeþ on him þe name of criste to be called a cristenman; And leueþ aȝeines cristes leueynge & his techeinge al þei take goddes name in ydel [597] ¶ Loke eke whate seiþe seint Peter Actuum .iiijto. Non est aliud nomen sub celo; þere is non oþere name seiþ seint Peter vnder heuen; yȝouen to men in whiche þei muste be saued; þat is to seye bot in þe name of ihesu criste [598] ¶ Tak kepe eke how þat þe precious name of ihesu criste as seiþ seinte Poule ad Philipenses; xijo. co. In nomine ihesu; &c. þat in þe name of ihesu euery kne of heuenly creatures or erþely or of hell scholde bowen; ffor it is so hihe & so worschipfull þat þe cursed fende in hell scholde tremblen to here it nemened;// [599] þan semeþ it þat men þat sweren so orrible by his
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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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