[6-text p 659] I haue ofte said to ȝow and now I say it wepyng ¶ That thenemyes of þe cros of crist of whiche þende is deth and of whiche here wombe is here god and here glorie in confusioun þat so saueren erþely þinges [821] ¶ he þat is vsant . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [822] to þis synne hath many spices ¶ The firste is dronkenes þat is thorrible sepulture of mannes resoun. And whan man is dronken he hath lost/ his resoun and þis is dedly synne [823] ¶ But schortly whan þat a man is not wont to strong drinke and par auenture ne knowiþ not þe strengþe of þe drynk or hath feblesse in his heed or haþ trauayled þurgh whiche he drynkith þe more and be sodeynly caught wiþ drynke it is no dedly synne but venial [824] ¶ The secounde spice of dedly synne is. whan þe spirit of a man wexith al trouble for drunkenesse. and bireueþ him his witte and his discres|sioun [825] ¶ The þridde spice of glotouns is whan a man deuoureth his mete and haþ no rightful maner of etyng [826] ¶ þe ferþe is whan þurgh þe grete abund|aunce of his mete þe humours of his body been dis|temprid [827] ¶ þe fifte is þe Idilnes by to moche drinking. For which a man som tyme forgetith by þe morwe what he dide at eue or on þe night bifore
[828] In oþer maner ben distinct þe spices of glotonye after seint Gregory ¶ The firste is for to ete or drynke byfore tyme to ete ¶ The secound is. whan man ȝiueth him to delicate mete or drinke [829] ¶ The þridde is. whanne man takith to moche þerof ouer mesure ¶ The ferthe is curiosite with gret entent to make and apparayle his mete ¶ The fifte is. For to ete to gredely [830] ¶ These ben þe fyue fyngres of þe deueles hand. by whiche he drawith folk to synne. /
