[6-text p 639] and to damage of an oþer man [610] ¶ Anoþer lesyng for to saue his lif or his catel . . . . . [no gap] comeþ of delit/ for to lye. in which delit þay wol forge a long tale and paynte it with alle circumstaunces wher as þe ground of þe tale is fals [611] ¶ Som lesyng comeþ. For he wolde susteyne his word ¶ Som lesyng cometh of rechelesnes wiþoute auisement and sem|blable þinges
[612] ¶ lat vs now touche þe vice of flaterie which cometh not gladly but for drede or for coueitise [613] ¶ Flaterie is generally wrongful preysing. Flater|ers ben þe deueles norices þat norisshen his children wiþ mylk of þe losingerie. [614] forsoþe Salamon saith þat flaterie is worse þan detraccioun. for som tyme de|traccioun makith an hawteyn man be þe more humble for he dredith detraccioun ¶ But certes flaterie makith a man to enhaunsen his hert/ and his countenaunce [615] ¶ Flaterers ben þe deueles enchauntours. For þay maken man to wene of himself þat he is like to þat he is nouȝt like. [616] Þay ben like Iudas þat bitraised . . . . . [no gap] to selle him to his enemy þat is þe deuel [617] ¶ Flaterers ben þe deueles chapeleyns þat singen ay. placebo. [618] I rekene flaterers in þe vices of Ire. For ofte tyme if oon man be wroþ wiþ anoþer. þanne wol he flatere som man to mayntene him in his querel
[619] Speke we now of such cursyng as comeþ of Irous hert malisoun generally may be said euery maner power of harm. such [folio 270a] cursyng bireueþ man fro þe regne of god as saiþ seint poule [620] ¶ And ofte tyme such cursyng wrongfully retourneþ agayn to hym þat curseth as þat retourneþ agayn to his owne nest. [621] and ouer alle þinges men oughten eschewe to cursen here oughne children and ȝiue to þe deuel here engendrure as ferforth as in hem is Certis it is gret peril and gret synne
