[6-text p 673] mennes houses or in þin owne in feld or in chirche or in chirchehawe. in chirche dedicate or noon. [965] For if . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] it be dedicate it is enterdited til it be reconsiled by þe bischop [966] and þe prest scholde be enterdyted þat dede such a vilonye to terme of al his lyf & scholde no more synge no masse and if he dede he schulde do dedly synne at euery tyme þat he song masse [967] ¶ The ferthe circumstaunce is by which media|tours as by which messagers [folio 282a] or for entysement or for consentement to bere companye with felawes For many a wrecche for to bere companye wol go to þe deuel of helle. [968] for þay þat eggyn or con|sentyn to þe synne ben parteneres of þe synne and of þe dampnacioun of þe synnere
[969] ¶ The fyfte is how many tymes þat he haþ synned if it be in his mynde / and how ofte þat he haþ falle. [970] For he þat ofte fallith in synne. despiseþ þe mercy of god and encresceth his synne and is vnkynde to crist and he waxith þe more feble to wiþstonde synne and synneþ þe more lightly [971] and þe latter arrisith and is þe more eschiewe to schriue him. and namely to him þat haþ ben his con|fessour. [972] For whiche þat folk whan þay falle agayn in here olde folies eyther þay forletin her confessours al vtterly or ellis þay departen here schrifte in diuers places. but soþely such departed schrifte haþ no mercy of god of his synnes [973] ¶ The sixte circum|staunce is why þat a man synneþ as by which temptacioun . . . . . [no gap] or by ex|cityng of oþer folk or if he synne wiþ a womman by force or by hir owne assent. [974] or if þe womman maugre hir heed haþ ben enforced or noon. þis schal sche telle. or for coueytise or for pouerte & if it was hire procuryng or noon and alle such maner
