[6-text p 649] [717] ¶ Certes þanne semeth it þat þay schal be tormentid wiþ þe deuel in helle but if þay don penitence
[718] ¶ þanne comith þe synne þat men clepe tarditas. as whan a man is so latrede or tarying er he wil torne to god. and certis þat is a gret foly. he is like him þat fallith in to þe diche and wol not arise / [719] And þis vice cometh of a fals hope þat he þinkith he schal lyue longe. but þat hope fayleþ ful ofte
[720] ¶ þanne comith laches. þat is he when he bigynneth any good werk anoon he wol forlete it and stynte as doon þay þat/ han eny wight to gouerne. and ne take of hem no more keep anoon as þay fynde eny contrarie or eny anoy [721] ¶ þese ben þe newe schepherdes þat leten her schep wityngely go renne to þe wolf þat is in þe breres or don no force of her oughne gouernaunce. [722] Of þis comeþ pouert and destruccioun boþe of spirituel and of temperel þinges ¶ Thanne comeþ a maner of coldenesse þat freseþ al þe hert of man [723] þanne cometh vndeuocioun þurgh which a man is so blunt & as saiþ seint Bernard he haþ such a langour in soule þat he may neyþeir rede ne synge in holy chirche ne heere ne þinke on deuocioun in holy chirche ne trauayle with his hondes in no good werk þat nys þo him vnsauory and al [724] þanne waxith he slow and slombry and soone wol he be wroþ and soone is enclined to hate and to enuye [725] ¶ þanne comith þe synne of worldly sorwe such as is clepid tristicia þat sleth man as saith seint poule [726] ¶ For certis such sorwe werkith to þe deth of þe soule. & of þe body also. For þer of cometh þat a man is anoyed of his oughne lif. [727] which sorwe schorteþ ful ofte þe lif of a man or þat his tyme is come by way of kynde [[No break in the MS.]]
