ware god. neuere the lattere he sall be a foule lichoure in wymmen priuely. what sayd he, .i. sall noght be stirid, that is, my fame & my honur sall noght pass, fra this generacioun in all other that ere at come, withouten artis [S artes.] . for he wenes that he may wyn fra erth till heuen. thurght the deuels craft: as symon magus wend. and merlyn, as thai say.
29. Cuius malediccione os plenum est, & amaritudine & dolo: sub lingua eius labor & dolor. ¶ Whas mouth is ful of weriynge & bitternes. & treson; vndire his tonge trauaile & sorow. ¶ His mouth is ful of weriynge, that is blasfemy in god, and bittirnes, that is bittere wordes and manauce, and treson, that is bloundisynge. with there wordes he sall desaif the folk. and vndire his tonge is trauaile and sorrow: that is he sall thynk how he may tourment and sla haly men in trauaile and sorow.
30. Sedet in insidiis cum diuitibus in occultis: vt inter|ficiat innocentem. ¶ He sittis in waitis with the riche in hidels; that he sla the innocente. ¶ He sall sitt with the riche men of this warld, the whilk he has made riche, and shew thare fals ioy and honur. for to desayf other: and that in waytes sett in hidils, that is in doute. whare men may noght lyghtly see whilk way thai sall take. and whilk fle. that he sla the innocent. that is of an that is goed make ane ill.
31. Oculi eius in pauperem respiciunt: insidiatur in abscondito, quasi leo in spelunca sua. ¶ The eghen of him lokes in the pore; he waytes in hidell, as leon in his dyke. ¶ ffor the kyngdome of heuen is hally pore mennys. cruelly he lokes in thaim. for he wate wele if he myght wyn tha. he ware sykere of all tha other. he waytes in hidell. for he that is desaifed knawis it noght. as leon, for strenght and violence. in his dike, for gilry. he sall haf strenght in his biddynge, & gilery in myracles.
32. Insidiatur vt rapiat pauperem: rapere pauperem dum attrahit eum. ¶ He waites that he rauysch the pore; to rauysch the pore i. whils he drawis him. ¶ He waites with treson to rauysch the pore fra god, to rauysch the pore fra blissid pouert and make him riche in fals delites. whils he drawis him til him with fayre hetis [S hetynge.] & sare pynes. Wha may thynke whatkyn tribulacioun that sall be when he [S. U om.] that will desaife sall hafe the swerd in the ta hand & the myracle in the tother.
