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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 605] haue contricion / is þe sorowfull remembraunce of the gode / þat he hath left to don here in erthe / and eke þe gode þat he hath lorne / [232] sothely þe gode werkes / þat he hath left / eyther þey ben the gode werkes / þat he wrought/ or he fell in-to dedely synne or els þe gode werkes / þat he wrought/ while he laye in synne / [233] sothly þe gode werkes / þat he dyd byfore / þat he fell in synne / ben all mortefied and astoned and dulled / by the oft synnyng/ [234] That oþere gode werkes / þat he wrought while he lay in synne / þey ben vttrely dede / as to lyf perdurable in heuen / [235] Than thilk gode werkes þat ben mortefied / by oft synnyng/ which gode werkes he did whiles he was in charitee / ne mow neuer qwyk ayein / without verrey penitence [236] And þerfore seith god / by þe mouth of Ezechiell / þat yf þe rightfull man re|turne ayein / from his rightwosnesse / and werk wykked|nesse / shall he lyve [237] nay / for all þe gode werkes þat he hath wrought/ ne shull neuere ben in remembraunce / for he shall deye in his synne / [238] And vp-on þat chapitre seith Seint Gregorie thus / þat we shull vnder|stonde this principally [239] þat whan we doon [[MS. repeats: principally / þat whan we don]] dedely synne / it is for nought / þan for to reherce / or drawe in-to memorie þe gode werkes þat we han wrought/ byfore/ [240] for certes in þe werkyng of þe dedely synne / þere is no trust/ to no gode werk/ þat we haue doon byforne/ þat is to seye / as for to haue þer-by þe lyf per|durable / in heven / [241] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] whan we haue contricion / [242] but sothely þe gode werkes þat men doon while þey ben in dedely synne / for as moch as þey were doon in dedely synne þey mow neuer qwyk [Eg. 2726 folio 246a] Ayein / [243] for certes thyng þat neuere had lyf/ may neuer qwykken And natheles all be it so / þey ne availlen nat/ to haue þe lyf perdurable yitte availlen
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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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