[6-text p 643] that trauaillen / in the seruice of crist. right so conforten the vileyns wordes and knakkes of Iaperis. hem that trauaillen / in the seruice of the deuel [653] ¶ Thise been the synnes / that comen of the tonge. that comen of Ire / and of othere synnes mo .
¶ Sequitur remedium contra peccatum Ire .
[654]
The remedie agayns Ire. is a vertu / that men clepen Mansuetude. that is debonairetee /. and eek another vertu / þat men callen pacience / or suffrance
[655] ¶ Debonairetee / withdraweth and refreyneth [¶ Of debonairetee] the stirynges and the moeuynges of mannes corage in his herte. in swich manere / that they ne skippe nat out by Angre ne by Ire / [656] ¶ Suffrance / suffreth swetely / alle [¶ Of Suffrance] the anoyaunces and þe wronges / that men doon / to man outward [657] ¶ Seint Ierome seith thus of debonairetee. [¶ Sanctus Ieronimus] that it dooth noon harm to no wight ne seith. ne for noon harm that men doon or seyn. he ne eschawfeth nat agayns his reson [658] ¶ This vertu som tyme comth of nature /. ffor as seith the Philosophre. A man is a quyk [¶ Philosophus] thyng by nature. debonaire and tretable to goodnesse. but whan debonairetee / is enformed of grace / thanne is it the moore worth
[659] ¶ Pacience / that is another remedie. Agayns Ire. [¶ Of Pacience] it is a vertu that suffreth swetely euery mannes goodnesse / and is nat wrooth for noon harm / that is doon to hym [660] ¶ The philosophre seith / that pacience is thilke [¶ Philosophus] vertu / that suffreth debonairely alle the outrages of Aduersitee / and euery wikked word [661] ¶ This vertu / maketh a man lyk to god / and maketh hym / goddes owene deere child / as seith Crist. this vertu disconfiteth thyn enemy ¶ And therfore seith the wise man. / If thow [¶ Nota secundum sapientem] wolt venquysse thyn enemy / lerne to suffre / [662] And thou shalt vnderstonde / that man suffreth iiij. manere [¶ Of .iiij. manere of greuances. that man suffreth in outwarde thynges.]
