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¶ Remedium contra peccatum Gule .
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Agayns Glotonye is the remedie Abstinence. as seith Galien. but that holde I nat meritorie. if he do it oonly for the heele of his body ‖. seint Augustyn wole / that Abstinence be doon for vertu and [¶ Augustinus] with pacience [832] ¶ Abstinence he seith is litel worth /. but if a man haue good wil ther-to. and but it be enforced by pacience and by charitee. and that men doon it for godes sake. and in hope to haue the blisse of heuene
[833] ¶ The felawes of Abstinence / been. Attemper|aunce [¶ Of the felawes of Abstinence] that holdeth the meene in alle thynges ¶ Eek [¶ Attemperaunce] shame. that eschueth alle deshonestee ¶ Suffisance / that [¶ Shame] [¶ Suffisaunce] seketh no riche metes ne drynkes. ne dooth no fors of to outrageous apparai [folio 230a] lynge of mete [834] ¶ Mesure also. that restreyneth by reson / the deslauee appetit of etynge ¶ Sobrenesse also. that restreyneth the outrage of drynke ‖ [¶ Sobrenesse] [835] sparynge also. that restreyneth the delicaat ese to sitte longe at his mete and softely. wherfore / som folk stonden of hir owene wyl / to eten / at the lasse leyser