[6-text p 658] euencristen and eek chastiȝe þe as neede is [811] ¶ Anoþer maner of remedye agayns auarice is resonable largesse but sothely here bihouith þe con|sideracioun of þe grace of ihū crist and of his temporel goodes and eek of his goodes perdurable þat crist ȝaf vs. [812] and eek to haue remembrance of þe deþ þat/ he schal resceyue he noot not whanne . . . [no gap] and eke he schal forgon al þat he hath saue oonly þat he haþ dispendid in goode werkes
[813] ¶ But for als moche as some folk ben vnreson|able men oughte to eschiewe foly largesse þam clepen wast/ [814] Certes he þat is fool-large ne ȝiueþ nouȝt his catel. . . . . [no gap] Sothely what þing þat he ȝiueth for vayn glorie as to mynstrals and to folk for to bere his renoun in þe world; he haþ synne and noon almes [815] ¶ Certes he lesith foule his goodes þat sekith wiþ þe ȝift [folio 276b] of his good no þing but synne. [816] he is like to an hors þat sekith raþer to drynke drouy watir and trouble þan for to drinke watir of þe welle þat is cleer. [817] And for as moche as þay ȝiue þer as þay schuld not ȝiue; to hem appendith þilke malisoun þat crist schal ȝiue at þe day of doom to hem þat schal be dampned. [[No break in the MS.]]
¶ De Gula[from margin]
[818]
AFter auarice comeþ Glotenye which is expresse eke agayns þe comaundement of god. Glotenye is vnresonable and desordeyned coueytise to ete and to drynke. . . . . [no gap] [819] þis synne cor|ruptid al þis world as is wel schewed in þe synne of adam. and of Eua ¶ loke eek what saith seint poul of glotouns [820] ¶ Many saith seint/ poul gon of whiche
