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The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

[6-text p 319] whan he of wyn / was replet at his feste Right at his owne table / he ȝaf his heste To slen the Baptist Iohn / ful giltelees Senek seith a good word / doutelees 492 he seith / he can no difference fynde Bitwix a man / that is out of his mynde And a man / which that is dronkelewe But that woodnesse / I-fallen in a shrewe 496 Perseuereth lengere / than doth dronkenesse O Glotonye / ful of cursednesse O cause first / of oure confusion O original / of our dampnacion 500 Til Crist had bought vs / with his blod a-geyn lo howe deere / shortly for to seyn A-bought was / thilke cursed vilenye Corrupt was al this world / for glotonye 504 Adam oure fader / and his wyf also ffro Paradys / to labour and to woo Were dryuen / for that vice / it is no drede ffor whil that Adam fasted / as I rede [folio 144b] 508 he was in Paradys / and whan that he [¶ Ieronimus contra Io|uinianum // Quam|diu ieiunauit adam / in paradiso fuit / co|medit & eiectus est statim duxit vxorem:] Ete of the fruyt / defended / on a tree A-noon he was out cast / to woo & peyne O glotonye / on the wel ought vs pleyne 512 O wiste a man / how many maladies ffolwen of excesse / and of glotonyes he wolde ben / the more mesurable Of his diete / sittyng at his table 516 Allas the shorte throte / the tendre mouth Maketh that Est and west / & North & south In Erthe in Eyr in water / man to swynke To gete a gloton / deyntee mete and drynke 520 Of this matere / o Poule / wel kanstow trete Mete vn-to wombe / & wombe eke vn-to mete [¶ Esca ventri & venter escis deus autem & hunc & illam destruet] Shal god destroyen bothe / as Paulus seith Allas / a foul thyng is it / by my feith
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The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,
1902.

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