[6-text p 633] right so / as fire is most myghty to destroye all erthelye thynges / . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [548] loke how that fire of smale gledes / þat ben almost dede vnder asshen wollen qwyk ayein whan they be touched with brymstone / Right so woll Ire euermore qwyk ayein whan it is touched by the pride þat is couered in mannes hert/ [549] ffor certes fire ne may nat com out of nothing/but yf it were first naturely in the same thyng/ as fire is drawen out of flyntes with steell / [550] And right so as Pride is oft tyme mater of Ire / right so is rancour norice and keper of Ire [551] There is a maner tree / as seith Seint Isidre / þat whan men maken fire of that tre / and couere the coles of it with asshen / sothely the fire of it woll lasten all a yere or more/ [552] and right so fareth it / of Rancour whan it is ones conceyued in the hertes of som men / certein it woll last perauenture from o Ester day vn-till another Ester day and more / [553] but certes thilk man is full fer from the mercy of god all þat while /
[554] In þis forseid devels fourneys þere forgen thre Shrewes / Pride þat ay bloweth and encreseth the fire by chidyng and wikked wordes / [555] Than stant Envye and holt þe hote Iren vpon the hert of man with a peire of long tonges / of long Rancour / [556] And than stant / the Syn of Contwmelie or Stryf / and cheste and batereth and forgeth by veleyns reprevynges / [557] Certes this cursed synne anoyeth both in the man hymself and eke to his neighbour / for sothly all-most / all the harme þat ony man doth / to his neighbour cometh of wratth / [558] for certes outrageous wratth / doth all þat euer the devill hym commaundeth for he ne spareth neither Crist / ne his swete moder / [559] and in his out|rageous angre and Ire / allas allas / full many oon / at þat tyme / feleth in his hert full wikkedly /
