[6-text p 651] beryng. and in cheer and in deede. [738] eek þer ben mo special remedies agayns accidie, in dyuers werkis and in consideracioun of þe peyne of helle and of þe ioye of heuen and in þe trust of þe hyhe grace of þe holy gost. þat wil ȝeue him might to parforme his good entent. [[No break in the MS.]]
De Auaricia[from margin]
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AFter accidie; I wil speke of auarice and of coueytise. Of whiche synnes For sothely whan saith sein poule þat þe roote of alle eueles & harmes is coueytise/ [740] and þat þe hert of man is confoundid in it self and troublid and þat þe soule haþ lost þe comfort of god. þanne seekith he an ydel solas of worldly þinges.
[741] [folio 274a] ¶ Auarice after þe descripcioun of seint austyn. is a likerousnes in hert to haue erþely þinges [742] ¶ Some oþer folk sayn þat auarice is for to purchace many erþely þinges and no þing ȝeue to hem þat han neede [743] ¶ And vnderstonde þat auarice ne stont not oonly in lond ne in catel; But som tyme in science and in glorie and eny maner outrageous þinges is auarice [744] ¶ And þe difference bytwixe auarice and coueytise is þis. Coueitise is for to coueyte suche þinges as þou hast not . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [745] ¶ And auarice is a synne þat is ful dampnable. For al holy writ curseth it and spekith agayn þat vice. for it doþ wrong to Ihū crist. [746] For it bireueth him þe loue þat men to him owen and turnith it bakward agains al resoun. [747] and makith þat þe auarous man hath more hope in his catel þan in ihū crist. and . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [748] þerfore saith
