CCLXXXVIII.
Ecclesiis non sunt bona temporalia subtraenda.

Petrus Damyanus tellis how som tyme þer was ane erle þat was of gude name and liffid̛ weƚƚ; and when̛ he was dead̛, a man̛ of religion̛ was ravisshid̛ in his spiritt, and *. [Harl. MS. vidit ... dictum Comitem in inferno, in supremo gradu cuiusdam scale erecte(s)* inter stridentes et crepitantes flammas. * Arund. MS. erecte.] he saw [þis erle] in heƚƚ in a grete degre, syttand vppon̛ a hy leddir in myddest of burnand̛ paynys; and as hym̛ thoght, þat stie stude evyn̛ in myddeste of heƚƚ. And þan̛ he askid̛ whi þis erle þat was so gude a man̛ and liffid̛ so rightwuslie, was so turmente. It was tolde hym̛ þat it was for a possession̛ þat he had taken̛ fro þe kurk̘ off Metence, þat was giffen̛ vnto God & Saynt Stephan; and for þis, fro hensfurtℏ, aƚƚ his sequele at holdis þis same possession̛ & knowis þerof mon̛ be punysshid̛ vppon̛ þis same stye.

• Elacio cordis semper causatur ex adulacione et ex vestium apparatu. Supra de augurio.
• Elacio cordis aufert graciam a deo concessam. Infra de locucione.