[6-text p 673] mennes hous / or in thyn owene. in feeld or in chirche / or in chirchehawe. in chirche dedicaat / or noon. [965] for if the chirche be halwed. and man or womman spille his kynde in with that place by wey of synne or by wikked temptacion / the chirche is entredited . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [966] and the preest þat dide swich a vileynye. to terme of al his lif/ he sholde namoore synge masse. and if he dide. he sholde doon deedly synne / at euery time þat he so songe masse / [967] ¶ The fourthe circumstance is. by whiche mediat|ours [¶ The .iiij.e circumstaunce] / or by whiche messagers / as for enticement or for consentement to bere compaignye with felaweshipe. for many a wrecche for to bere compaignye shal go to the deuel of helle. [968] wher-fore / they þat eggen or con|senten to the synne / been parteners of the synne / and of the temptacion of the synnere.
[969] ¶ The fifthe circumstance. is / how manye tymes [¶ The .v.e circumstaunce] þat he hath synned / if it be in his mynde / and how ofte þat he hath falle. [970] for he þat ofte falleth in synne. he despiseth the mercy of god and encreesseth hys synne and is vnkynde to crist. and he wexeth the moore fieble to withstonde synne and synneth the moore lightly / [971] and the latter ariseth / and is the moore eschew for to shryuen hym / namely / to hym þat is his Con|fessour / [972] ffor which that folk / whan they falle agayn in hir olde folies. outher they forleten hir olde confessours al outrely. or elles they departen hir shrift in diuerse places. but soothly / swich departed shrift deserueth no mercy of god of hise synnes [973] ¶ The sixte circum|stance [¶ The .vj.e circumstaunce] / is why þat a man synneth as by temptacion and if hym self procure thilke temptacion / or by the ex|citynge of oother folk. or if he synne with a womman by force / or by hire owene assent. [974] or if the womman maugree hir hed hath been afforced or noon / this shal she telle. ffor coueitise / or for pouerte. and if it was hire procurynge or noon / and swiche manere
