Of þis two þinges seruen hit
Al þat is writen in holy writ:
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Þis ben þo two, to trowe,
Þat þou schalt boþe leeue [r. loue] and knowe [2 vv. om.; Spec.: Ex scriptura debes extrahere et cognos|cere:]
Wȝuche ben þe seuen synnes dedly,
And þe seuen vertuwes þerby,
Þe ten Comaundemens al-wey,
And þe twelf Articles of þe fey,
And þe seuen ȝiftus of þe holigost,
And þe seuen sacremens most,
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And þe seuen werkes of Merci,
And þe vertuwes of þe Ewangeli, [The 7 praiers of the Paternoster are om. here and in the poem.]
And þe Ioyes also of heuen
And þe peynes of helle to nemen.
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Off þe seuen dedly synnes.
SEuen Sinnes þer ben dedly:
Pruide, Wraþþe, Sleuþe, and Envy,
Glotonye, and gredines [= couetise, cf. v. 605.] also,
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Couetyse [om. Couetyse] and lecheri, wiþ hem to go.
Pruide no-þing elles ne is
Bote loue to muche monnes hihnes.
And of him comeþ oþur seuene:
Vnbuxumnes, þat draweþ from heuene,
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Aȝeynes god, be þou serteyn,
Or elles aȝeyn his souereyn;
Þat is to sei, I telle þe son,
To leue þat is hym beden don—
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Þus is he peired and not mendet,
He doþ [r. And do] þing þat him is defendet.
Þat oþur þing is Auauntyng,
[These vv. are corrupt; cf. V. pr. tr.: whon a mon avaunteþ him of good þat he haþ of a-noþer or of an vuel (Th. of ill) þat he haþ of himself.] Whon mon of oþur monnes þing
And to him-self bi wikkednes
He hateþ and bringeþ him in distres.
Þe þridde spice is Ypocrisye,
Whon mon feineþ him to haue in hiȝe
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Holines þat he haþ nouht,
And doþ [Vern. pr. tr. hut, Th. hydes.] his wikkednes in dede and þouȝt.
Þe ffeorþe spice, hit is þen
Dispit þat he haþ to oþur men,
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