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

[6-text p 667] [904] ¶ þe þred spice of aduoutre is sumtime betwene a man & his wif & þat is whan þei taken no rewarde in here assemblynge bot onely in his ffleschely delite as seiþ seinte Ierom; [905] & ne reken of noþinge bot att þei bien assembled be cause þei bien ymaride; al is good ynouhe as þinkeþ to hem; [906] Bot in suche folk haþe þe deuel pouere as seide þe Angel Raphael to thobie. = ffor in hire assemblynge þei puten oute iheus criste of here hert & ȝaff hem self to al ordour [907] ¶ þe ferþe spice is þe assemblynge of hem þat bien of her kinrede or of hem þat bien of one affinite or elles wiþ hem; with whiche hire fadres or here kinred haþe deled wyþþe inne þe sinne of licherie; þis sinne makeþ hem like houndes þat taken no kepe of kinred; [908] ¶ And certes Parentela is in tuo maners owþer gostely; oþere flesslye; Gostly as for to delen wiþ her gossebes. [909] For riht so as he . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] is his godfader; he is his fader spirituele; For whiche a womman maie in no lesse sinne assemble wiþ hire gossib þat with hire owen ffleschely broþere; [910] ¶ þe fifte spice is þilke abhomynable sinne of whiche þat no man vnneþes ouht write or speke; ¶ Neþeles it is openly rehersed in holy writte; [911] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] to speke of orrible sinne; certes holy writte may not bue defoulede nomore þan þe sonne þat schineþ on a mexen. [912] ¶ Anoþere sinne þat pertineþ to licherye þat commeþ in slepeinge; & þis sinne commeþ oft to hem þat biene maydens; And eke to hem þat bien corrupt ¶ & þis sinne men clepen pollucione þat commeþ in .iiij. maners; [913] somme time of a languysseinge of bodye for þe humers bien to rank & abundant in þe body of a man; Sumtyme for þe infermete for þe feblenesse of þe vertue retentif as phisik makeþ mencion; Somtim for forfete of mete & drinke; [914] And sume time for
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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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