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The Parson's Tale Folio 207v 3 of 53 folios

ture / naked in pilgⁱmages / or bare foot

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¶ Pryuee penaūce is thilke / that
men doon alday for priuee synnes / of whiche they shryue hem pⁱuely ~
and receyue pⁱuee penaūce

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¶ Now shaltow vnderstande / what is biho-
uely and necessarie / to verray parfit penitence /. And this stant on .iij. thyn-
ges [wedge]

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Contricioū of herte [wedge]

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Confessioū of Mouth xx and Satisfaccioū /.

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for
which / seith seint Ioħn Crisostom ¶ Penitence destreyneth a man to accep-
te benygnely euery peyne that hym is enioyned / with Contricioū of ħte
and shrift of moutħ / with satisfaccioū / and in werkynge of alle manere
humylitee /

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and this is fruytful penitence agayn .iij. thynges in whi-
che we wratthe oure lord Ihū Crist [wedge]

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This is to seyn / by delit in thyn-
kynge ¶ by reccheleesnesse in spekynge [wedge]

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. and by wikked synful werkynge [wedge]

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And agayns thise wikkede giltes is Penitence that may be likned vn to a tree /

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The roote of this tree / is Contricioū / that hideth hym in the herte / of hym
þ^t is verray repentaūt. rigħt as the roote of a tree hydeth hym in the er-
the

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¶ Of the roote of Contricioū spryngeth a stalke that bereth braun-
ches and leues of Confessioū / and fruyt of satisfaccioū

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¶ For whicħ
Crist seith in his gospel /. dooth digne fruyt of Penitence [wedge]

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. for by this
fruyt may men knowe this tree / and nat by the roote / that is hyd / in ~
the herte of man / ne by the braunches / ne by the leues of Confessioū

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And therfore / oure lord Ihū Crist / seith thus /. by the fruyt of hem / ye
shul knowē hem

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¶ Of this roote eek spryngeth a seed a grace / the
which seed / is mooder of sikernesse / and this seed / is egre and hoot ~

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the grace of this seed / spryngeth of god thurgħ remembrance of the day
of doome / and on the peynes of helle

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¶ Of this matere seith Salomon
That in the drede of god / man forleteth his synne

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¶ The heete of
this seed / is the loue of god / and the desiryng / of the ioye pardurable ;

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This heete / draweth the herte of a man to god / and dooth hym haten ~
his synne /

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for soothly / ther is no thyng that sauoureth so wel to a
child / as the Milk of his Norice / ne no thyng moore abhomynable
than thilke Milk / whan it is medled with oother mete

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¶ Right so
the synful man that loueth his synne / hym semeth / that it is to hī
moost sweete of any thyng.

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but fro that tyme / that he loueth sad-
ly oure lord Iħu cⁱst. and desireth the lif pardurable / ther nys to him
no thyng moore abhomynable /

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for soothly / the lawe of god / is the lo-
ue of god / for which / Dauid the prophete seith ¶ .I. haue loued thy lawe / &
hated wikkednesse and hate / he that loued god / kepeth his lawe and
his word

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¶ This tree saugħ the prophete Daniel / in the Auysioū of the
kyng / Nabugodonosor / whan he conseiled hym to do penitence

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¶ Pe-
naunce / is the tree of lyf / to hem that it receyuen / and he þ^t holdeth
hym in verray penitence / is blessed / after the sentence of Salomon

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¶ In this penitence or contricioū / man shal vnderstonde .iiij. thynges /
that is to seyn / what is Contricioū /. and whiche been the causes /
þ^t moeuen a man to contricioū /. and how he sholde be contrit . &
what contricioū / auailleth to the soule

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¶ Thanne is it thus / þ^t
contricioū / is the verray sorwe / that a man receyueth in his herte ~
for his synnes / with sad purpos / to shryue hym / and to do penaū-
ce / and neueremoore to do synne /

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and this sorwe / shal been in this ma-
nere / as seith seint Bernard ¶ It shal been heuy and greuous / and

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Stubbs, Estelle, Michael Pidd, Orietta Da Rold, Simon Horobin and Claire Thomson with Linda Cross, eds. (2013). The Multitext Edition. The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales. Published by: University of Sheffield. Available at: <http://www.chaucermss.org/multitext> [Accessed 23 March 2023].

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