[6-text p 682] weneth þat he may suffre no penaunce. [1059] þer agayns is remedye for to þinke þat bodily penaunce is but schort and litel at þe regard of þe peyne of helle þat is cruel and so long þat it/ lastith wiþouten ende
[1060] ¶ Now agains þe schame þat a man haþ to schryue him and namely þese ypocrites þat wolde be holde so parfyt þat þay haue no meede to schriue hem. [1061] agayns þat schame schulde a man þinke þat by way of resoun þat he hath not ben aschamed to do foule þinges. Certis him oughte not ben aschamed to doon faire þinges & goode þinges and þat is confessioun [1062] ¶ And man scholde eek þinke þat god seeth alle þy þoughtes and þy werkes to him may no þing be hyd ne couered [1063] men schulde eek remembre hem of þe schame þat is to come at/ þe day of doom to hem þat ben nought penitent and schriuen in þis present lif. [1064] For alle þe creatures in heuen ne in erthe and in helle schuln seen apertly al þat he hydith in þis world
[1065] ¶ Now for to speke of hem þat ben so negligent and slowe to schryue hem stant in tuo maneres [1066] ¶ þat oon is. þat he hopith for to lyue longe and for to purchace moche riches for his delyt. and þanne he wol schriue him. and as he saith he may as him semith tymely ynough come to schrifte [1067] ¶ Another is of þe Surquidie þat he haþ in cristes mercy [1068] ¶ Agains þe firste vice he schal þinke þat oure lif is in no sikernesse. and eek þat al þe riches in þis world ben in aduenture and passen as a schadowe on þe wal [1069] and as saith seint Gregory þat it apperteyneth to þe grete rightwisnes of god þat neuer schal þe [folio 285b] peyne stynte of hem þat neuer wolde wiþdrawe hem fro synne her þankes. but ay continue in synne for þilke perpetuel wille to doon synne. schul þay haue perpetuel peyne
[1070] ¶ wanhope in tuo maneres is. þe firste wan|hope is in þe mercy of crist ¶ That oþer is þat þay
