[6-text p 621] oþer is without / [410] of which sothly þise for|seid thynges / and mo þan I haue seid ben apperteynent to Pride / þat is in þe hert of man And þe other spices of pride ben without / [411] but natheles þat one of thise spices of pride is signe of þat other Right as þe gay levesell / at the Taverne is signe of þe wyne / þat is in þe seler / [412] and þis is in many thynges / As in speche and countenaunce and in outrageous array of clothyng/ [413] ffor certes yf þere hadde be no syn in clothyng/ crist wold nat so sone / haue noted and spoke of þe clothyng of þe riche man in þe gospell / [414] And as seith Seint Gregorie / þat precious clothyng is coul|pable for the derth of it / and for his softnesse [Eg. 2726 folio 251a] And for his straungenesse and disgesynesse / and for the super|fluytee or for þe inordinate scantnesse of it/ [415] Allas may man nat see / as in our dayes / þe synfull costlewe array of clothyng/ and namely in to moch superfluytee / or els in to disordinate scantnesse/
[416] As to þe first synne / in superfluite of clothyng/ which þat maketh it so dere / to harme of the peple [417] nat onely þe cost of enbrowdyng the desgise of endentyng or barryng oundyng palyng wyndyng or bendyng and semblable wast of cloth in vanytee / [418] But þere is also þe costlewe furryng in her gownes so moch pounsonyng of chisell to make holes / and so moch daggyng of sheres / [419] forth-with þe superfluytee in length of þe forseid gownes trayl|yng in the dung / and in the myre / on hors and eke on fote / as wele of man as of womman / þat all thilk traillyng is verrey wasted consumed threde|bare and roten with dunge / rather þan it yeven to the poure to grete damage of þe forseid poure folk/ [420] And þat in sondrye wise / þis is to sey / þat þe more that cloth is wasted þe more mot it cost to þe peple for scarsenesse [421] And ferther ouer yf so be þat þey wolden yeve soch pounsoned and
