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[387] ¶ Now it is bihouely þing to telle whiche ben dedly synnes þat is to sayn chiueteyns of synnes. alle þay renne in oon loos. but in diuers maners now ben þay cleped chiueteyns. For als moche as þay ben chief and springers of alle oþere synnes [388] ¶ Of þe roote of þese seuen synnes; þanne is pride þe general synne and roote of alle harmes ¶ For of þis roote springen general braunches. As Ire. Enuye. accidie or sleuthe. auarice or coueitise. to commune vnderstondynge. glotonye and leccherie [389] ¶ And euerich of þese synnes hath his braunches and his twigges as schal be declarid in here chapitres folwinge. [[No break in the MS.]]
[390] and þough so be þat no man can telle vtterly þe nombre of þe twigges and of þe harm þat comeþ of pride; ȝit wol I schewe a party of hem as ȝe schul vnderstonde [391] ¶ Ther is Inobedience. auauntyng. ypocrisye. despit. arragaunce. Imprudence. Swellyng of hert. Insolence. Elacioun. . . . . [no gap in the MS.] pertinacie. veinglorie. and many anoþer twigge þat I can not telle ne declare [392] Ino|bedient is he þat disobeieth for despyt to þe comaunde|mentȝ of god and to his souereigns. and to his gostly fader. [393] Auauntour is he þat bosteth of þe harm or of þe bounte þat he haþ don [394] ¶ ypocrisy is þat [folio 262b] hydeth to schewe him such as he is and scheweþ him such as he not is [395] ¶ Despitous is he þat haþ desdayn of his neighebour þat is to say of his euen cristen or haþ despit to doon þat him ought to doon [396] ¶ Arragaunt is he þat þinkeþ þat he hath þilke bountees in him þat he haþ not or
