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 620] weneth þat he shold have hem / by his desertes / or elles he demeth / þat he be / þat he is nat/ [397] In|prudent is he / þat for his pride / hath no shame of his synnes / [398] Swellyng of hert is / whan man reioyseth hym of harme / þat he hath doon / [399] Inso|lent is he þat despiseth in his Iugement all other folk/ as to regarde of his value / and of his connyng and of his spekyng/ and of his heryng [400] Elacion is whan he ne may neither suffre to haue maister ne felawe / [401] Inpacient is he þat woll nat be ytaught/ ne vnder|nom of his vice / and by stryf werieth truth / wetynglye / and defendeth his folye / [402] Contumax is he / þat þurgh his Indignacion / is ayeinst euerycch auctoritee / or power of hem / þat ben his soueraignes / [403] Pre|sumpcion is whan a man vndertaketh an emprise/ þat hym ought nat to do / or els þat he may nat do / and þis is calld surquydre / Inreuerence is whan men doon nat honour / þere as hem ought to do / and wayten to be reuerenced [404] Pertinacie is / whan man diffendeth his folie / and trusteth to moch to his owen witte / [405] Vaynglorie / is for to haue pompe and delite / in þis temporell hyenesse / and glorifie hem in this worldly astate / [406] Ianglyng is whan men speken to moch byfore folk/ and clappen as a myll/ and taken no kepe what þey seyen.

[407] And yitte is there a pryve spice of Pride / þat wayteth first for to be salowed / or he wold salow / all be he lesse worthy þan þat oþer is peraventur And eke he waiteth or desireth to sitte or elles to go above hym in þe weye or kysse pax / or ben ensensed or gon to offryng byfore his neighbour [408] and semblable thynges ayeinst his duete perauenture / but he þat hath his hert / and his intent in soch a proude desire / to be magnyfied and honoured byfore þe peple

[409] Now ben there two maners of Pride / þat one of hem is within the hert of man / and þat

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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.,
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