The Multitext Edition > Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS. Peniarth 392 D
The Parson's Tale
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ben thanne the gaye robes / & the softe shetes / & the smale shertes
¶ Lo what seith god of hem
/ by the
prophete Ysaye
that vnder hem
/ shul ben strawed Moththes
/ & hir
cou
ertures
/ shullen ben of
wormes of helle
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¶ And forther ouer / hir myseyse / shal ben
in defaute of frendes / for he is nat pouere / þt hath goode fren-
des / but there is no freend /
for neither god
/ ne no creature shal
ben freend to hem
/ and euerich of hem
/ shal haten oother
/ w
t deedly hate
the sones
& the doghtren
/ shullen rebellen agayns
fader
& moder
/ and kynrede agayns kynrede
/ and chiden
& despisen
/ euerich of hem oother
bothe day
& nyght
as god
~seith
/ by the
prophete Michias
¶ And the louynge children
þt whi-
lom loueden so flesshly euerich oother
/ wolden euerich of h
ēeten oother
/ if they myghte
for how sholde they louen hem to-
gidre / in the peyne of helle / ; whan they hateden euerich of
hem oother / in the prosperitee of this lyf /
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for truste wel / hire
flessħly loue / was dedly hate / as seith the prophete Dauid ;
who so þt loueth wikkednesse / he hateth his soule /
and who
so hateth his owene soule ./ certes / he may loue noon oother
wight in no manere /
and therfore / in helle is no solas / ne
no frendshipe / but euere / the moore flesshly kynredes þt ben
in helle / the moore cursynges / the moore chidynges / and the
moore dedly hate / ther is among hem
¶ And forther ouer /
they shul haue defaute / of alle manere delices / for certes /
delixxx ben after the / appetites of the .v. wittes / as Sighte / .
Hxxxxge / . Smellynge / . Sauorynge / . and touchynge /
but
in helle / hir sighte / shal be ful of dirknesse & of smoke ~
and therfore ful of teerys / and hir herynge / ful of waymen-
tynge and of gryntynge of teeth / as seith Ihū cist
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hire
nosethirles
/ shul ben ful of stynkynge stynk
And as
seith Ysaye the
prophete
hir
sauorynge
/ shal be ful of bit
-ter galle
/
& touchynge of al hir body
/ ycouered w
t fyr
þt neuere shal quenche
/ & w
t wormes
/ þt neu
ere shul dy
-en
/ as god seith
/ by the mowth of Ysaye
And for as mu
-che
as they shul nat wene
/ þt they may dyen for peyne
/ and by hir
deeth fle fro peyne
/ that may they vnderstonde
in the word of Iob
that seith
/ there as is the shadwe of de
þ /
¶ Certes
/ a shadwe
/ hath the liknesse of the thyng
/ of which
it is shadwe
/ but shadwe
/ is nat the same thyng
of which
it is shadwe
right so / fareth the peyne of helle / it is lyk
deeth / for the horrible angwissħ / and why / for it peyneth