[6-text p 658] euene cristene. And eek to chastise there as nede is / [811] ¶ Another manere of remedie agayns Auarice / is [¶ Of another remedie agayn Auarice] resonable largesse / but soothly heere bihoueth the con|sideracion of the grace of Ihesu crist and of hise temporeel goodes / and eek of the goodes perdurables that crist yaf to vs. [812] and to han remembrance / of the deeth that he shal receyue. he noot whanne. where. ne how /. and eek that he shal forgon al that he hath. saue oonly / that he hath despended in goode werkes.
[813] ¶ But for as muche as som folk been vnmesur|able. men oughten eschue fool largesse that men [¶ Of fool largesse] clepen wast / [814] ¶ Certes / he that is fool large ne yeueth nat his catel / but he leseth his catel ‖. Soothly / what thyng that he yeueth for veyne glorie. as to Mynstrals and to folk /. for to beren his renoun in the world. he hath synne ther-of and noon Almesse. [815] certes he leseth foule his good. that ne seketh with the yifte of his good / no thyng but synne. [816] He is lyk/ to an hors that seketh. rather to drynken drouy or trouble water / than for to drynken water of the clere welle. / [817] And for as muchel as they yeuen. ther as they sholde nat yeuen. to hem aperteneth thilke malison / that crist shal yeuen at the day of doome / to hem / that shullen been dampned . . .
[folio 229b] Sequitur de gulâ
[818]
After Auarice comth Glotonye / which is expres eek agayn the comandement of god ¶ Glotonye / is [¶ What Glotonye is] vnmesurable Appetit to ete or to drynke / or elles to doon ynogh to the vnmesurable Appetit and desordeynee coueitise to eten or to drynke. [819] ¶ This synne cor|rumped al this world. as is wel shewed / in the synne of Adam and of Eue ¶ Looke eek / what seith seint Paul of [¶ Sanctus Paulus] Glotonye [820] ¶ Manye seith seint Paul goon / of whiche
