And ouþer spyces haþ glotonye:
To ete þy mete ouer brennynglye
And lustly, whan þou hyt getyst,
And takest noun hede what þou etyst.
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Anoþer spyce ys noght to pay,
As a beste to ete al day,
And kepyst nonë [no.] certeyn tyme,
Þe settyng at none or pryme,
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Noþer ouþer tyme þat fallyþ [falþ.] to man,
But as a beste þat no resun kan.
Me þenkeþ weyl hyt ys resun
To callë swych a man 'glotoun.'
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Twyys on þe day ys sustynaunce
To man þat haþ gode cheuysaunce.
Þe cheuysauncë, woste þou how,
To man þat haþ metë ynow,
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Þogh he be man of trauayle,
Hyt were y-now with-outë fayle.
But þo men þat haue no swynk,
Þat delyte hem yn mete or [and.] drynk,
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Þe apostyl [apostole.] Poulë spekþ of þo,
And dampneþ many one to wo.
He seyþ "woo to þo þat erly ȝerne,
Þat go and hauntë þe tauerne,
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Yn wyne or ale to haue lykyng;
Cursednes hem folowyþ at þe endyng.
Of swych, here wombës are here Cryst; [kryst.]
Þat ys here loue, þat ys here tryst."
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Alle þys he meneþ sykyrly
For man þat loueþ [loue.] moche glotonye.
Ȝungë chyldryn, þey mow wele,
On þe day, etë þre mele;
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For sum of hem wex ful tyte, [folio 48b]
Þarefor ys more, here appetyte;
And ȝyt behoueþ tyme be þar-to,
Or men mowe wyþ hem mysdo;
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For, þus seyþ þe oldë man
Yn a prouerbe [forbysyn.] þat he can,
