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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 666] speciall meynee of god / for which whan þey don dedely synne / þey ben especiall traytours of god / and of his peple / for þey lyuen of the peple / to praye for the peple / and while þey ben soch traytours / her prayer avayleth nat to the peple [895] Prestes ben Aungels / as by the dignitee / of her misterie / But forsoth seint Poule / seith þat Sathanas transfourmeth / hym in Aungell of light/ [896] sothly the preest þat haunteth dedely synne / he may be lykkened to the Aungell of derknesse / transfourmed the Aungell of light/ he semeth Aungell of light / but forsoth he is Aungell of derknesse / [897] Soch prestes ben the son of Belie / as sheweth in the boke of kynges / þat they weren the sonnes of Beliall/ þat is the devill / [898] Beliall is to sey without Iuge / and so faren they hem þynken þey ben free / and han no Iuge / no more þan hath a free Bole / þat taketh soch a Cow / as hym liketh in the toun / [899] So faren þey by wommen / for right as a free Bole / is ynough for all a toun / Right so is a wikked prest/ corrupcion ynough for all a paryssh / or for all a cuntree [900] Thise prestes as seith the boke ne kon nat þe misterie of presthode / shewe to þe peple ne god þey knowe nat / þey hold hem nat appayed as seith þe boke of soch flessh þat was to hem offred / but they toke by force þe flessh þat is rawe / [901] certes so thise old shrewes ne hold hem nat appayed of rosted flessh/ and sode flessh with which the peple feden hem / in grete reuerence but þey woll haue rawe flessh of folkes wyfes / and her doughters [902] And certes thise wommen þat consenten to her harlotrye / don grete wrong to Crist/ and to holy chirche / and all halowes / and to all soules / for þey byreve hym / all þise þat shold worshippe Crist/ and holy chirche / and praye for Cristen soules / [903] And þerfore han soch prestes and her lemmans eke / þat consenten to her lecherie / þe malison of all Cristen court/ till þey com to amendement/
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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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