[6-text p 646] to labour in preyinge to god for amendement of here . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] sinnes; [684] Anoþere estate es þe estate of grace; In whiche estate he is halden to do werkes of penitence; And certes to al þes þinges is accide Enemy & con|trarie. for he loueþ no besinesse att al; [685] ¶ Nowe certes þis foule sinne accide; is eke a ful grete enemye til þe liflode of þe body; ffor it haþe no purueance aȝeine temp[or]ele necessite; for it is for-slewþed & for sloggeþ & distruyeþ al goodes temperelles be rechilnesse;
[686] ¶ þe fourte þinge is þat Accide is like hem þat bien in þe peyne of hell because of her slouþe & of her hevinesse; ffor þei þat bien dampned bien so bounde þat þei ne maye wele do; ne wele þenke; [687] Of accide commeþ first þat a man is anoyed & encombred. [folio 244b] to done any goodnesse; & makeþ þat god haþe Abomynacioun of suche as seiþ seinte Ioh.
[688] Now commeþ sleuþe þat wil not suffre none hardenesse ne none penance; For soþe slouþe is so tender & so delicate as seiþe Salomon; þat he wil not suffre none hardenesse ne penance ¶ And þerfor he schendeþ al þat he doþe [689] aȝeines his roten hercid sinne of Accide; And slouþe sholde men exercise hemself to done good werkes & manly & vertuouslye cachen corage wele to done thenk|inge þat oure lorde ihesu criste quyteþe euery goode dede be it neuere so lite; [690] vsage of laboure is grete a þinge; ffor it makeþ as seiþe seinte Bernard; The laborer to haue stronge harmes & hard synowes; & slowþe makeþ him febel & tendre; [691] ¶ þan commeþ drede to be-ginne for to wirke any goode werke; ¶ For certes he þat is enclined to sinne; him þinke it is so grete an emprise; for to vndertake to do werkes of goodnesse [692] . . . . .
