[6-text p 599] seruauntz & thralles to synne / & soore ben ashamed of hem self/ [153] þat god of his endelees goodnesse / hath set hem in heigh estat or yeuen hem wit strengthe of body / heele / beautee / prosperitee / [154] and boghte hem fro the deeth with his herte blood; þat they so vnkyndely agayns his gentilesse / quyten hym so vileynsly to slawghtre of hir owene soules [155] ¶ O [[[later] nota de pulcritudine Mu|lierum malarum]] goode god / ye wommen // þat been of so greet beautee / remembreth yow / of the prouerbe of Salomon ‖ he seith / [156] likneth a fair womman þat is a fool of hire body / lyk to a ryng of gold / þat were in the groyn of a Sowe / [157] for right as a Sowe wroteth in euerich ordure; so wroteth she hire beaute in stynkynge ordure of synne
[158] ¶ The thridde cause / þat oughte moeue a man [.3.] to Contricion / is drede of the day of dome / and of the horrible peynes of helle / [159] ffor as Seint Ierome seith / At euery tyme / þat me remembreth of the day of dome / I quake / [160] for whan I ete and drynke / or what so þat I do / euere semeth me / þat the trompe sowneth in myn ere / [161] Riseth ye vp þat ben dede & cometh to the Iugement [162] ¶ O goode god / muchel oghte a man to drede swich a Iugement/ ther as we shullen ben alle / as seith Seint Poul / biforn the Sete / of oure lord Ihu crist/ [163] where as he shal maken / a general con|gregacion / where / as no man may ben absent [164] for certes / there ne auaileth noon essoyne / ne excusacion / [165] and nat oonly / þat oure defautes shullen be Iuged / but eek þat alle oure werkes / shullen openly be knowe / [166] And as þat seith Seint [folio 238b] Bernard / ther ne shal no pletynge auaile / ne no sleighte ¶ we shullen yeue rekenynge of euerich ydel word / [167] there shul we han a Iuge / þat may nat ben deceyued / ne corrupt. and why; for certes / alle oure thoghtes / ben descouered as to hym / ne for prayere / ne for mede / he wol nat ben corrupt [168] and therfore seith Salomon ‖ the wrathe of god . . . . . [no gap in the MS.]
