[6-text p 626] ¶ Another is / man to haue a noble herte / and a diligent to attayne to heighe vertuouse thynges [470] NOw certes / a man to pride hym in the goodes of grace / is eek / an [¶ Of pride in the yiftes of grace] outrageous folie / for thilke yifte of grace / that sholde haue turned hym to goodnesse and to medicine / turneth hym to venym and to confusion / as seith seint Gregorie [471] Certes also / who so prideth hym / in the goodes of [¶ Of pride in the goodes of ffortune] ffortune /. he is a ful greet fool /. for som tyme is a man a greet lord by the morwe /. that is a caytyf and a wrecche er it be nyght. [472] and somtyme / the richesse of a man / is cause of his deþ / somtyme / the delices of a man / is cause of the greuous maladye / thurgh which he dyeth [473] Certes / the commendacion of the peple / is som|tyme [¶ Of commen|dacioun of the peple.] / ful fals and ful brotel for to triste /. this day they preyse / tomorwe they blame / [474] god woot desir/ to haue commendacion of the peple / hath caused deeth / to many a bisy man [475] Now sith that so is / that ye han vnderstonde what is pride / and whiche been the speces of it. and whennes pride sourdeth / and spryngeth
¶ Remedium contra peccatum Superbie .
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NOw shul ye vnderstonde which is the remedie agayns / the synne of pride /. and that is humylitee / or [¶ Of humilite or mekenesse] mekenesse /. [477] that is a vertu / thurgh which. a man / hath verray knoweleche of hym self. and holdeth of hym|self/ no pris ne deyntee /. as in regard of hise desertes / considerynge euere his freletee [478] NOw been ther .iij. maneres of humylitee /. as humylitee in herte /. and another [¶ Of .iij. maneres of humilitee] humylitee in his [folio 220b] mouth ¶ The thridde in hise werkes [479] ¶ The humilitee in herte / is in iiij. maneres ¶ that [¶ Of .iiij. maneres of humilitee in herte] oon is / whan a man / holdeth hym self as noght worth biforn god of heuene ‖. Another is /. whan he ne despiseth
