CTS logo
About
< 349r Cx1: Folio 349v; The Parson's Tale 498-506 350r > Go to Cx2
Caxton 1, folio349v image
 lawe / right as a Iustyse dampneth hym that is culpable  
 to the deth / but lete the Iustyse bewaar that he do it right-  
 fully And that he do it not for delite to spylle blood but  
 for kepyng of rightwisnes / 498 Another homicyde is don for  
 necessyte as whan a man sleeth another hys defendaunt  
 and that he ne may other wyse escape fro his owen deth .  
 499 But certayn and he may escape withoute slaughter of  
 his aduersarye and sleeth hym he doth synne / and he  
 shal bere penaunce as for dedely synne / 500 Eek yf a man by  
 caas or auenture shete an arowe or cast a stoon with which  
 he sleeth a man it is homycide / 501 Eke yf a woman by ne-  
 clygence ouer lyeth her chylde in slepyng / it is homicyde  
 and dedely synne / 502 Eke whan a man destroyeth concep-  
 cion of a child or makyth a woman bareyne by drynkes  
 of venymous herbis thurgh whiche she may not conceyue  
 Or sleeth her chyld by drynkis / or ellis putteth certayn  
 materyal thyng in her secrete place to sle the chyld / 503 or  
 ellis doth vnkynde synne / by whiche man or womman she-  
 deth his nature in place ther as a child may not be con-  
 ceyued / or ellis yf a woman haue conceyued and hurt  
 her self and sleeth her chyld / yet is it homicyde / 504 What  
 saye we eke of women that murdren her children for drede  
 of worldly shame Certes it is eke an horryble homycyde  
 505 Eke yf a man approche to a woman by desyre of lecherye  
 thurgh whyche the childe is perysshed ellys smyteth a wo  
 man wetyngly by whiche her chylde is slayn / Alle thyse  
 ben homycydes and dedely horryble synnys / 506 yet comyn of  
 Ire many mo synnys as In word in thought in dede as  
 wel as he that aretteth vpon god or blasphemyth god  
  

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 498
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 572
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 572

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 499
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 573
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 573

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 500
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 574
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 574

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 501
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 575
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 575

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 502
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 576
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 576

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 503
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 577
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 577

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 504
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 578
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 578

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 505
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 579
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 579

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 506
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 580
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 580