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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 655] / [780] That other merchaundise / þat men haunt/ with fraude and trecherie / and disceyte with lesynges / and fals othes is cursed and dampnable / [781] Espirituel merchandise / is proprely Symonye þat is ententyf desire / to bye thyng espirituell/ þat is thyng that apperteneth to the Sentuarie of god / and to Onre of þe soule [782] þis desire / [Eg. 2726 folio 261b] Yf so be / þat a man do his diligence / to perfourme it/ all be it/ þat his desire take noon effecte / yitte is it to hym a dedely synne / and yf he be ordred He is irregulere / [783] Certes Symonye is cleped of Symond Magus / þat wold have bought for temperell gode / þe yift þat god hade yeven by þe holy goost to seint Petir / and to the Appostles / [784] And therfore vnderstonde / þat both he / þat selleth and he þat byeth / thynges espirituels / ben cleped Symonyales / be it by catell/ be it by procuryng / or by flesshly prayer / of his frendes / flesshly frendes or spirituell frendes / [785] flesshly in two maners as by kynrede or other frendes / sothly yf þey pray for hem / þat is nat worthy and able / it is Simonye / yf he take the benefice / and yf he be worthy and able / þere is none [786] That other maner is whan men or wommen / prayen for folk to avauncen hem onely / for wykked flesshly affeccion / þat þey han to the persones / and þat is foule Symonye / [787] But certes in seruice / for which men yeven thyng espirituell/ vn-to her seruauntes it mot be vnderstonde þat þe seruice mot ben honest / and elles nat/ and eke þat it be without bargeynyng / and þat þe persone be able / [788] ffor as seith Seint Damasie / all þe synnes of þe world at regarde of þis synne arn as a thyng of nought / for it is the grettest synne / þat may be / after ye synne of lucifere / and of Antecrist / [789] for by this synne / god forleseth þe Chirche / and þe soule / þat he bought with his precious blode / by hem þat yeven chirches to hem / þat ben nat digne / [790] for þey put in þefes 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.,
1902.

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