Humility.
A tokne of godes louiinge, [folio 141b]
A sheld of mithful wynninge,
A Celer of siker kepinge,
A keye of Redi vndoinge.
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Eve, Mary, and Paradise.
Þe ȝates of Parais [folio 143]
Þoruth eue weren iloken;
and þoruth oure swete ladi,
Aȝein hui beoþ nouþe open.
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Ideo ista humilitas dici potest 'clauis Dauid,' de quo habetur Apocalypsi 3, que claudit, & nemo aperit.
Envy.
De isto malo dicit Angustinus, quod est aliene [folio 143b] felicitatis tristicia, et aduersitatis leticia: ista est mala condicio, & summe cauenda propter quatuor: videlicet:
quia hit Roteþ and brenneþ, Hit freteþ and twynneþ.
& ideo est sicut anglice dicitur, videlicet:
Ase:
þe worm on þe treo,
and þe hul on þe see,
and roust on þe knife,
and ase deþ to þe life.
The Evils of this Time.
Set heu . . . raro inuenitur amor siue caritas! ideo [folio 145] dolorose potest dici modo istud Anglice:
Loue is out of lond iwent;
Defaute of loue þis lond haþ shent. [folio 145b]
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Reuthþe and treuthþe and charite
Beþ out of lond, alle þreo:
