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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 635] man / [571] Manslaughter in dede is in .iiij. maners / þat one is by lawe / right as a Iustice dampneth hym þat is coulpable to the deth / but let the Iustice be ware / þat he do it rightfully/ and þat he do it nat for delite to spill blode but for kepyng of rightwo|nesse [572] Another homicide is don for necessitee/ as whan a man sleeth another in his diffendant/ and þat he ne may escape non oþer wise from his owen deth/ [573] But certainlye yf he may escape with|out slaughter of his aduersarie and sleeth hym / he doth synne / and he shall bere penaunce as for dedely synne / [574] Eke yf a man / by caas or auenture shete an arow or cast a stone with which he sleeth a man he is an homycide / [575] Eke yf a womman by necligence ouerlie hir child in hir slepyng / it is homycide and dedely synne/ [576] Eke whan man distourbeth con|cepcion of a child and maketh a womman eyther bareyn by drynkyng of venemouse herbes þurgh which she may nat conceyue/ or sleeth a child by drynkes or els putteth certen materiall thynges in hir secre places / to slee the child [577] or els doth vnkyndely synne / by which man or womman shedeth her nature in maner or in place / þere as a child may nat be con|ceyued / or els and yf a womman haue conceyued and hurte hir self / and sleeth the child / yitte is it homicide / [578] what sey we eke / of wommen þat mordren her children / ffor drede of worldly shame/ certes it is an horrible homicide/ [579] Homycide is eke / yf a man ap|proche to a womman by desire of lecherie / þurgh which þe child is perisshed / or elles smyt a womman wetyngly / þurgh which she leseth her childe All þise ben homy|cides/ and horrible dedely synnes / [580] Yitte comth ther of Ire many no synnes / as wele in worde as in thought / and in dede / as he þat arretteth / vp-on god or blameth god of þing/ of which he is him [Eg. 2726 folio 255b] Self gilty or despiseth god / and all his halowes / as don thise cursed hasardours /
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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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