¶ Sequitur de septem peccatis mortalibus / et eorum dependencijs circumstancijs & speciebus
¶ De Superbia .
[387] NOw is it bihouely thyng. to telle / whiche been the deedly synnes / this is to seyn / Chieftaynes of synnes /. alle they renne in o lees / but in diuerse maneres ¶ Now been they cleped Chieftaynes / for as muche as they been chief. and spryngen of alle othere synnes / [388] ¶ Of the roote / of thise .vij. synnes / thanne is pride the general roote of alle harmes /. ffor of this roote / spryngen certein braunches /. As Ire. Enuye. Accidie / or Slewthe. Auarice / or Coueitise to commune vnderstondynge /. Glotonye. and Lecherye. [389] And euerich of thise chief synnes hath hise braunches and hise twigges as shal be declared / in hire Chapitres folwynge / [[no break in the MS.]]
[The Twigs of Pride.]
[390] And thogh so be that no man kan outrely telle / the nombre of twigges and of the harmes that cometh of pride /. yet wol I shewe a partie of hem / as ye shul vnderstonde [391] ¶ Ther is / Inobedience. Auauntynge. Ypocrisie. Despit. Arrogance. Inpudence. swellynge of herte. Insolence. Elacion. Inpacience. strif. Contumacie. Presumpcion. Irreuerence. Pertinacie. Veyne glorie / and many another twig that I kan nat declare [392] ¶ Ino|bedient [¶ Of Inobedience] is he / that disobeyeth for despit to the comande|mentz of god /. and to hise souereyns /. And to his goostly fader / [393] ¶ Auauntour is he / that bosteth of the harm / [¶ Of Auauntynge] or of the bountee / that he hath doon [394] ¶ Ypocrite is [¶ Of Ypocrisie] he / that hideth to shewe hym swich as he is /. and sheweth hym / swich as he noght is [395] [folio 218b] ¶ Despitous [¶ Of despit/] is he / that hath desdeyn of his neighebore / that is to seyn of euene cristene / or hath despit to doon that hym oghte to do [396] ¶ Arrogant is he / that thynketh / [¶ Of Arrogance] þat he hath thilke bountees in hym that he hath noght or
