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The Tale of Melibeus Folio 341v 1 of 46 folios

take the pacience / the pacience / of oure lord Ihū cryst
as seyth seynt petyr / In hise epistelis

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Ihū Crist he seith
hath sufferred for vs / & ȝeuyn ensāple to euery man
to folwe / & sewyn hȳ /

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for he dede neuere synne ne
neuere cam there / A vileyns word out of his mouth

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whan men cursede hȳ ; he cursede hē not /

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535

Also the
greete pacience / whiche seyntis that been in para-
dys han had in tⁱbulaciounys / that they been I suf-
ferid with outyn here desert or gilt //

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oughte meche
stere ȝow to pacience /

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Ferthere more / ȝe schul en-
forse ȝow to haue pacience /

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considerynge that
the tribulacioūnys / of this world but lityl whi-
le endure / & soone passede been & goone /

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And the
Ioye that a man sekyth for to han bi pacience in
trybulacioūnys / is pardurable / aftyr that thapost-
le seyth in his epistele

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540

¶ The Ioye of God is pardu-
rable that is to seyne euere lastynge /

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Also trowith
& bileuyth stedefastly / that he nys not weel I no-
ryschid / ne weel I tauȝt that can not haue pacien-
ce or wele not receyue pacyence /

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For salomon
seyth that the doctryne / & the wit of a man is kno-
wyn by pacience /

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And in a nothir place he seyth
that he that is pacient gouernyth hȳ by greet
prudence /

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And the same Salomon seyth / That the
angry & the wratheful man ; makyth noysis / & the
pacient man attempereth hȳ & stillith /

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545

he seyth also
it is moore worth to ben pacient ; than for to ben
ryȝt strong /

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And he that may haue the lordschepe
of hese owene herte ; he is moore to preyse / than
he that by his force or strenthe ; takyth greete ceteis

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And therefore seyth seynt Iame In his epistle / that
Pacience is a greet vertu of parfeccioū . ~

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CErtis quod Melibee I graūte ȝow dame
Prudence / that Pacience is a greet vertu
of parfeccioū

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But euery man may not hā
the parfeccioū that ȝe seekyn /

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550

ne I am not of the
noūbre of ryȝt parfite men /

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For myn herte may
neuere been in pees / vnto the tyme it be ven-
git /

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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 22 January 2025].

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