(4)
Thu hast, with surfeet, leuyng sobirnesse,
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fful greuously encombred thi corage,
In lust dispending al thin besynesse, [folio 18]
Syn þat thu were a childe of tender age,
That the now doth ful gret disauauntage;
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Wherfore the nature of thi maladye
Wil askë sothly a fleobotomye.
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(5)
Also I see, þat ful art thu withinne
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of córrupte humour al a-bowt[ë] spred,
That rennyth ay betwyn [þi] flesch and skynne,
That causith þat thu kepist now thi bedde:
Than ydilnesse and slouthë hath this bred;
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Thu hast nought swet owt of thin eye one tere;
Wich thing to the ful necessary were.
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(6)
For if thu myghtist, dayës two or thre,
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With mynde upon thi foulë wrechidnesse
haue suche a sweet, it wolde availë the;
ffor leue it weel,—I sey it the expresse—
but if thu do the rathere thi besynesse,
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with suche a swet thi self[ë] to amende,
This malady will of the make an ende.
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(7)
Take heed[ë] nowe, and to thi self conuerte,
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And see what wrechidnesse is the withinne,
Or dethë take thi liffe out of thin herte;
To be my reed, anon þat thu be-gynne
To make the clenë of thi sory synne,
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As ferrë [forth] as þou canst think or spye,
And wasshe hem out with terës of thin eye.
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(8)
For if þat deth the sudeynly assaile,
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beleue it weel, he sparith no persone;
With him to trete, it may no thing avayle;
On the hath he no piete, thow thu grone;
Complayntis sothly he rewardith none,
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