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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 636] in diuers cuntrees / [581] This cursed synne doon þey whan þey felen in her hert full wikkedly of god and his halowes [582] Also whan þey treten vnreuerently þe sacrament of the auter/ þat synne is so grete/ þat vnneth it may be relesed / but that the mercy of god passeth all his werkes / it is so grete / and he so benigne / [583] Than comth of Ire / Attrye angre / whan a man is sharply amonested in his shrifte / to for|lete synne/ [584] þan woll he be angry and answere hokerly and angrelye / or defende or excuse his synne / by vnstedfastnesse of his flessh / or els he did it / for to hold companye with his felawes / or elles he seith / the fend enticed hym / [585] or els he did it / for his youth / or els his complexion is so corageous / þat he ne may nat forbere or els it is destenye as he seith/ vn-to a certein age / or els he seith it comth hym of his gentillesse of his Auncetres / and semblable thynges / [586] All þise maner of folk / so wrappen hem in her synnes / þat þey ne woll deliuere hem self/ ffor sothly no wight/ þat excuseth hym wilfully of his synne / may nat be deliuered of his synne / till þat he mekely beknowe his synne [587] After this than comth sweryng/ þat is expresse ayeinst the commaundement of god / and þis befalleth oft of angre and of Ire / [588] God seith þou shalt nat take / the name of thy lord god / in veyne / or in Idle / Also our lord Ihesu Crist seith / by the worde of Seint Mathewe / . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [589] ne woll þou nat swere in all maner / neither by heven / for it is goddes Trone / ne by erthe / for it is þe benche of his fete / ne by Ierusalem / for it is the Citee of a grete kyng/ ne by thyn hede / for þou maist nat make an here white ne blak/ [590] But seith by your word. ye ye / nay nay / and what þat is more is of evill / þus seith Crist/ [591] ffor Cristes sake / ne swereth nat so synfully in dysmembryng of Crist/ by soule /
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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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