[6-text p 672] [954] sothely a whit wal al þough it brenne not fully by stikyng of a candel ȝet is þe wal blak of stiking of a candel ful ofte tyme. [955] I rede þat no man truste in his oughne perfeccioun but he be strenger þan Sampson or holiere þan Dauyd. and wiser þan salamon
[956] ¶ Now after þat I haue declared ȝow þe seuen dedly synnes as I can & some of here braunches and here remedyes; soþely if I couþe I wolde telle ȝow þe ten comaundementes. [957] but so heigh a doctrine I leue to diuines. but/ naþeles I hope to god þay ben touchid in þis litil tretys eue¶rich of hem alle
De secunda parte penitencie[in margin]
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NOw for as moche as þe secounde part of penitence stant in confessioun of mouth as I bigan in þe chapitre I say seint austyn saith. [959] Synne is euery word and euery dede / and al þat men coueyten agayn þe lawe of ihū crist. and þis is for to synne in herte in mouthe and in dede by þy fyue wittis þat been. sight heeryng smellyng tastyng or sauoryng or felyng [960] ¶ Now it is good to vnder|stonden þe circumstaunces þat aggreggen moche to euery synne. [961] þou schalt considre what þou art þat dost þe synne wheþir þat þou be mal or femal. old oþer ȝong gentil or þral. free or seruaunt hool or seek. weddid or sengle. ordrid. or vnordred wys or fool clerk or seculer [962] if sche of þy kyn bodily or gostly or noon. if eny of þy kynrede haue synned wiþ hire or noon and many mo þinges
[963] ¶ That oþer circumstaunce is wheþer it be don in fornicacioun or in aduoutry or incest or noon or mayden or noon in maner of homicide or non horrible grete synnes or smale and how longe þou hast continued in synne [964] ¶ The þridde circumstaunce is þe place wher þou hast don synne wheþer in oþer
