[6-text p 614] wraþþe and of dampnacioun perdurable if it nere baptisme þat we resceyuen which bynymeþ vs þe culpe ¶ But for|soþe þe peyne duelliþ wiþ vs as to temptacioun which peyne highte concupiscence [336] ¶ And þis concupiscence whan it is wrongfully disposed or ordeyned in man; hit makith him to coueyte couetise of fleisschly synne by sight of his eyȝen as to erþely þinges. and eek coueityse of heigh|nesse as by pride of herte
[337] Now as to speke of þe firste coueitise þat is concupiscence after þe lawe of oure membris þat is . . . . .[338] . . . . . [no gap] nouȝt obeissant to god þat is lord þerfore is fleissch to him disobeisant þurgh concupiscence which þat ȝit is clepid norisshing of synne . . . . . [no gap] [339] ¶ Therfore al þe while þat a man haþ in him þe peyne of concupiscence it is impossible but he be tempted som tyme and moeued in his fleisch to synne /. [340] ¶ And þis may not faile as longe as he lyueþ ¶ hit may wel wexe feble and faille by vertu of baptisme and by þe grace of god þorugh penitence. [341] but fully schal it neuer [folio 260b] quenche þat he schal som tyme be moeued in himself but if he were al refreydit by siknes or by malice of sorserye or colde drinkes [342] ¶ For what saiþ seint poul ¶ The fleissh coueitith agayn þe spirit. and þe spirit agayn þe fleisch þay ben so contrarie and so stryuen þat a man may nouȝt alwey do as he wolde [343] ¶ The same seint poul after his penaunce in watir and in lond. in watir by night and by day in gret peril and in gret peyne in lond and in famyne. and in þurst and colde. and cloþles oones almost stoned al to þe deth [344] ¶ ȝit saide he allas I caytif man. who schal delyuere me fro þe prisoun of my caytif body [345] And seint Ierom. whan he long tyme had woned in desert here wher as he hadde no compaignye but of wilde bestes wher as he hadde
