CAP. XXI.
Also freris beggen wiþouten nede for hor owne riche secte, [Friars beg without need, and thus inter∣cept alms from those in real distress.] and not for pore bedraden men þat may not go, and have no mon to sende for hor lyvelode, bot raþer drawen riche mennis almes fro soche pore men. And herfore charite is outelawed amonge hom, and so is God; and leesinges, covetise, and fendis, ben enhabited amonge hom. For þei disseyven men in hor almes, to make costily housis, not to herberow pore men, bot lordis and myghty men; and techen men to suffer Gods temple, þat ben pore men, to perische for defaute. And þus þei ben traytoures to God, and his riche puple, whom þei dis∣seyven in hor almes, and monquelleres of pore men, whose lyvelode þei awey taken fro hom by fals leesinges, and herfore þei ben irreguler bifore God, and despisen hym, and harmen þo puple when þei seyn masse or mateynes in þis cursid lif, as holy writte techis, and Austyn and Gregor declaren fully.