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

[6-text p 663] were his sustere; [862] ¶ þe fift finger of þe deueles honde is þe stinkeinge dede of lycherye; [863] Certes þe .v. fingers of glotonye þe fende putteþ in þe wombe of a man; & with þes .v. fingers of lychery; he gripeþ him be þe reynes for to þrowe him into þe forneyse of hell [864] þere as þei scholne haue þe fuyre & þe wormes þat euer schal laste; & wepeinge & waileinge scharpe hunger & þurste griselynesse of deueles þat schal al to treden [folio 249a] Hem wiþ-outen respite & with|outen ende [865] of lychery as .I. seide sourden diuerse spyces; as fornicacion. þat is be-tuex man & womman þat bien not maried; & þis is dedely sinne & aȝeines nature; [866] Al þat is enemy & destruccion to nature is aȝeines nature [867] parfeye ¶ þe resone of a man telleþ him eke wele þat it is dedely sinne for als muche as god forbad lycherye; = And seint Poule ȝeueþe him þe regne þat is dieu to no whight bot to hem þat done dedely sinne [868] ¶ Anoþere sinne of lycherye is; for to be-reven a mayden of hire maydenhade; ffor certes he þat so doþe he takeþ a maiden oute of þe hiest degre þat is in þis present lif; [869] & bereueþ hire þilke precious fruyte þat þe boke clepeþe þe hundreþ fruyte. I. can nouht seye it in none oþere weye in ynglische Bot in latine it hiht Centesimus fructus; [870] Certes he þat so doþe is cause of mony damage & velanyes mo þan any man kan reken ¶ Riht as he sūmtyme is cause of al þe damage þat bestes done in þe felde; þat brekeþ þe hegge of þe closur þoruhe whiche he distroyeþ þat may not be restored; [871] ffor certes no more maye maydenhede bue re|stored; þan an arme þat is smeten fro þe body maye retorne aȝeine to wex; [872] Sche maye haue mercye þis wote .I. wele if sche do penitence; Bot neuer schal it be þat sche nas corrupte; [873] ¶ And albeit so þat .I. haue spoken sumwhat of aduowtre it is goode to schewen mo periles þat longen to aduoutre ¶ For to eschewe þe foule
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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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