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Handlyng Synne
Mannyng, Robert (fl. 1288-1338)
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Roberd of Brunne's “Handlyng Synne.”
[THE PROLOG.]
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Here bygynneþ þe seuene dedly synnes.
Here bygynne the Seuenþe Sacramentys of holy cherche.
1.
[Of Holy Bapteme.]
2.
[Of Confirmation.]
3.
[Of the Sacrament of the Altar.]
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[The Tale of the Priest for whom the Sacramental Bread and Wine were turnd into a Child's Flesh and Blood.]
[The Tale of the Priest who was enabled to see Folk's sins in their Faces.]
[The Tale of the Priest who was waited on by a Dead Lord whom he afterwards sang out of Purgatory.]
[The Tale of the Suffolk Man who was taken out of Purgatory by two Masses his Wife got sung for him.]
[Bede's Tale of Jumna and Tumna; or, How an Abbot's Mass-singing made the Fetters fall off a Knight in Prison.]
[The Tale of the Miner, and how his Wife's Offerings for his Soul fed him while he was buried alive in a Mine.]
4.
[Of Penance.]
5.
[Of the Fifth Sacrament—Holy Orders.]
6.
[Of the Sixth Sacrament,—Marriage.]
7.
[Of the Seventh Sacrament,—Aneylyng or Extreme Unction.]
Here bygynneþ shryfte.
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Handlyng Synne
Handlyng Synne
Robert Mannyng
fl. 1288-1338
Published for The Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Asher & Co.
London Berlin
1901–1903
Handlyng Synne