[6-text p 672] [954] sothely a white wal / al-though it brenne nat fully / bi stikynge of a candel / yit is the wal blak of the lighte [955] [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 304a] ful offte tyme / I rede that no man truste in his owne perfeccion / but he be stronger than Sampson / or [¶ Sampson.] holiere than Dauid / & wisere than Salomon / [¶ Dauid.] [¶ Salomon.]
[956] Now that I haue declared yow as I can the .vij. dedly synnes / & some of here braunches / & here remedies / sothely if I couthe I wolde telle yow the ten comaundementes [957] but so high a doctryne I lete to divines / but natheles I hope to god thei ben touched in this litil tretise eueryche of hem alle /
De secunda parte penitencie.
[958]
NOw for-asmeche as the seconde partie of penaunce stonte in confession of mouthe / as I bigan in the chapitre / I seie seint Austyne seith / [959] synne is euery worde / & euery dede / & al that men coveiten ayeines the lawe of ihesu criste / And this is for to synne in herte / in mouthe / & in dede / bi the .v. wittes / that ben / sighte / hirynge / smellynge / tastynge or sauerynge / & felynge / [960] Now is hit good to [¶ prima circum|stancia peccati] vnderstonde the circumstances that aggregen mechel euery synne / [961] thow shalt considre what thow arte that doist the synne / whether thow be male or female / y[o]nge or olde / gentil or thral / fre or seruaunte / hoole or sike / wedded or sengle / ordred or vnordred / wise or foole / clerke or seculere / [962] if she be of thi kynrede bodily or gostly or non / if any of thi kynrede haue synned with hir or non / & many mo thinges /
[963] That other circunstaunce is this / whether hit be [¶ Secunda] don in fornicacion / or in aduoutrie or non / or in ceste or non / maiden or non / in manere of homicide or non / orrible grete synne or smale / & how longe thow hast contenued in synne / [964] The thride circunstaunce is [¶ tercia] the place where as thow hast don synne / whether in other
