[6-text p 634] bothe of crist and of alle hise halwes [560] ¶ Is nat this a cursed vice? yis certes / Allas / it bynymeth from man his wit and his reson / and al his debonaire lif/ espiritueel / that sholde kepen his soule [561] ¶ Certes / it bynymeth eek goddes due lordshipe / and that is mannes soule / and the loue of hise neighebores ‖. It stryueth eek alday agayn trouthe /. It reueth hym / the quiete of his herte / and subuerteth his soule /
[562] Of Ire / comen thise stynkynge engendrures [¶ Of the engen|drures that comen of pride] ¶ ffirst hate / that is oold wratthe. discord / thurgh which a man / forsaketh his olde freend ful longe / [563] ¶ And thanne cometh werre / and every manere of wrong that man dooth to his neighebore / in body / or in catel [564] Of this cursed synne of Ire / [¶ Of man|slaughtre in diuerse maneres] cometh eek manslaughtre ‖. And vnderstonde wel / that homycide / that is manslaughtre / is in diuerse wise ¶ Som manere of homycide is spiritueel / and som is bodily [565] ¶ Spiritueel manslaughtre is in .vj. thynges ¶ ffirst by [¶ Of .vj. thynges / þat bee / in spiritueel manslaughtre] hate / as seint Iohn seith /. he that hateth his brother / is homycide / [566] ¶ homycide is eek by bakbitynge / of [¶ Nota secun|dum Iohannem] whiche bakbiteres seith Salomon /. that they han two [¶ Salomon] swerdes / with whiche / the sleen hire neighebores /. ffor soothly / as wikke is / to bynyme his good name / as his lyf [567] ¶ Homycide is eek / in yeuynge of wikked [¶ Of homycide / in yeuynge of wikked conseil] conseil by fraude /. as for to yeuen conseil / to areysen wrongful custumes /and taillages /. [568] of whiche seith Salomon ¶ Leon rorynge and Bere hongry / been like to the [¶ Salomon] crueel lordshipes / in withholdynge or abreggynge / of the shepe / or the hyre or of the wages of seruauntz /. or elles in vsures / or in withdrawynge of the Almesse of poure folk. [569] ffor which the wise man seith ¶ ffedeth hym / that [¶ Sapiens] almoost dyeth for honger/. for soothly / but if thow feede hym / thou sleest hym / and alle thise been deedly synnes [570] BOdily manslaughtre is / whan thow sleest him with thy [¶ Of bodily man|slaughtre] tonge /. In oother manere /. as whan thou comandest to sleen a man / or elles / yeuest hym conseil / to sleen a
