[6-text p 631] for if it were resoun that man schulde hate his enemy For-soþe god nolde nouȝt receyue vs to his loue þat ben his enemys [524] ¶ Agains þre maner of wronges þat his enemy doþ to him he schal do þre þinges as þus. [525] agayns hate and rancour of herte he schal loue him in herte. Agayns chydyng and wicked wordes he schal pray for his enemye. agains wikked dede of his enemy he schal doon him bounte [526] ¶ For crist saith loueþ ȝoure enemyes and prayeþ for hem þat ȝow chacen and pursewen. and doþ bounte to hem þat ȝow haten. . . . . [no gap.] [527] For sothely nature driueþ vs to loue oure frendes / and par fay oure enemyes han more neede to loue þan oure frendes ¶ For sothely to hem þat more neede haue certis to hem schul men do good|nes. [528] And certis in þilke dede haue we by remem|braunce of þe loue of ihū crist þat dyed for his enemys [529] ¶ And in als moche as þilke loue is more greuous to parforme; so moche is þe more gret remedye & meryt ¶ And þerfore þe louyng of oure enemy haþ confoundid the venym of þe deuel. [530] For right as þe deuel is confoundid by humilite; Right so is he woundid to þe deth by loue of oure enemy [531] ¶ Certes þanne is loue þe medicine þat castith out þe venym of enuye fro mannes hert. [532] the spices of þis part [folio 267a] schuln be more largely declared in here chapitres folwynge [[No break in the MS.]]
¶ De Ira.[from the margin]
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AFter enuye wol I descryuen þe synne of Ire. For soþely who so haþ enuye vpon his neighebor; anoon he wol comunly fynde him a matiere of wraþþe in word or in dede agayns him to whom he haþ envie. [534] and as wel comeþ Ire of pride
