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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 665] hem out of the regne of heuen / þat is heritage to gode folk/ [885] Of this brekyng comth eke oft tyme / þat folk vnware wedden or synnen / with her owen kynne / and namely thoo harlottes / þat haunten bordels of þise fool wommen /þat mowen be lykkened to a commune gonge / where as men purgen her ordure / [886] what sey we eke of Putours / þat lyven by þe horrible synne of Puterie / and constreyne wommen / to yeld hem a certein rent/ of her bodely Puterye / ye somtyme [[MS. repeats of his bodely puterye / ye som tyme]] of his owen wyf / or his child / as don thise baudes / Certes thise ben cursed synnes / [887] vnderstonde eke / þat auoutrie is sette in the .X. commaundementes / bitwene theft and man|slaughter / for it is the grettest theft þat may be / for it is theft of body and soule [888] and it is like homicide for it kerveth a two / and breketh a twoo / hem that first were maked oo flessh / And þerfore by þe old lawe of god they shold be slayn with stones / [889] Butnatheles by þe lawe of Ihesu Crist / þat is lawe of pitee / whan he seid to the womman / þat was founde in auoutrie / and shold haue be slayn / with stones / after the will of the Iewes / as was her lawe / Go koth Ihesu Crist / and haue no more will to synne / or will no more to do synne / [890] Sothly the vengeaunce of Auoutrie is awarded to the peynes of hell/ but yf it be distourbed by Penitence [891] yitte ben there mo spices of this cursed synne / as whan þat oon [of] hem is religious / or elles both/ or of folk þat ben entred in-to ordre / as subdeken or preest/ or hospitilers / And euere the hier þat he is in ordre the gretter is the synne [892] The thynges þat gretely aggreggen her synne is the brekyng of her avow / of chastitee / whan he hath resceyued þe ordre / [893] And ferther-ouer soth it is / þat holy ordre / is chief / of all tresorie / [Eg. 2726 folio 265a] Of god / and his especiall signe / and mark of chastitee / to shewe þat þey ben ioyned to chastitee which þat is most precious lyf þat is / [894] And þise ordred folk / ben specially titled to god / and of the
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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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