[6-text p 632] as of enuye /. for soothly / he that is proude or enuyous / is lightly wrooth
[535] ¶ This synne of Ire / after the discryuyng of seint Augustyn / is wikked wil / to been auenged / by [¶ sanctus Augustinus] word / or by dede /. [536] Ire after the Philosophre /. is [¶ Philosophus] the feruent blood of man / yquyked in his herte / thurgh which he wole harm / to hym that he hateth [537] ¶ ffor certes the herte of man by eschawfynge and moeuynge of his blood / wexeth so trouble / that he is / out of alle Iuggement of reson [538] ¶ But ye shal vnderstonde / that Ire is in two maneres / that oon of hem is good / and [¶ Of Ire in two maneres] that oother is wikked / [539] ¶ The goode Ire / is by Ialousie of goodnesse / thurgh which / a man is wrooth [¶ Of good Ire] with wikkednesse / and agayns wikkednesse /. and ther|fore seith a wys man /. that Ire is bet than pley ‖ [540] [¶ Sapiens] This Ire / is with debonairetee /. and it is wrooth with|outen bitternesse / nat wrooth agayns the man / but wrooth / with the mysdede of / the man /. as seith the prophete Dauid Irascimini & nolite peccare [541] NOw [¶ Dauid propheta] vnderstondeth / that wikked Ire / is in two maneres / [¶ Of wikked Ire in ijo. maneres / and the firste / is sodeyn Ire] that is to seyn / sodeyn Ire / or hastif Ire withouten auisement and consentynge of reson /. [542] the menyng and the sens of this / is / that the reson of man ne con|sente nat to thilke sodeyn Ire / and thanne it is venial [543] ¶ Another Ire is ful wikked / that comth of [¶ Of Ire þat comth of felonie of herte auised & cast biforn] felonie of herte auysed and cast biforn / with wikked wil / to do vengeance / and therto / his reson consenteth and soothly / this is deedly synne [544] ¶ This Ire / is so dis|plesant to god that it troubleth his hous / and chaceth the hooly goost out of mannes soule / and wasteth and de|stroyeth the liknesse of god / that is to seyn / the vertu that is in mannes soule / [545] and put in hym / the lik|nesse of the deuel and bynymeth the man fro god / that is / his rightful lord /. [546] this Ire / is a ful greet plesaunce to the deuel /. for it is the deueles fourneys / that is eschawfed / with the fir of helle ‖. [547] ffor certes /
