[6-text p 659] I haue ofte seyd to yow. and now I seye it wepynge / that been the enemys of the croys of Crist. of whiche the ende is deeth. and of whiche / hire wombe is hire god and hire glorie / in confusion of hem / that so devouren erthely thynges [821] ¶ He that is vsant / to this synne of Glotonye / he ne may no synne withstonde. he moot been in seruage of alle vices. for it is the deueles hoord / ther he hideth hym and resteth [822] ¶ This [¶ Of the speces of Glotonye] synne hath manye speces ¶ The firste / is dronkenesse. [¶ The firste spece of Glotonye] that is the horrible sepulture of mannes reson. and ther|fore / whan a man is dronken / he hath lost his reson. and this is deedly synne [823] ¶ But soothly. whan that a man is nat wont to strong drynke. and perauenture / ne knoweth nat the strengthe of the drynke. or hath feblesse in his heed. or hath trauailed. thurgh which he drynketh the moore. al be he sodeynly caught with drynke / it is no deedly synne / but venyal [824] ¶ The seconde spece of [¶ The .ij.de spece of Glotonye] Glotonye is. that the spirit of a man / wexeth al trouble. for dronkenesse bireueth hym the discrecion of his wit [825] ¶ The thridde spece of Glotonye. is whan a man [¶ The .iij.de spece of Glotonye] deuoureth his mete. and hath no rightful manere of etynge [826] ¶ The fourthe is. whan thurgh the grete habund|aunce [¶ The .iiij.e spece of Glotonye] of his mete. the humours in his body / been des|tempred [827] ¶ The fifthe. is foryetelnesse by to muchel [¶ The .v.e spece of Glotonye] drynkynge. for which somtyme a man foryeteth er the morwe. what he dide at euen. or on the nyght biforn
[828] ¶ In oother manere been distinct the speces of / [¶ Of othere manere speces of Glotonye. whiche been likned to the .v. fyngres of the deueles hand. secundum sanctum Gregorium] Glotonye after seint Gregorie ¶ The firste is. for to ete bi|forn tyme to ete ¶ The seconde is / whan a man get hym. to delicaat mete / or drynke [829] ¶ The thridde is. whan men taken to muche ouer mesure ¶ The fourthe is curiositee with greet entente. to maken and apparaillen his mete ¶ The fifthe is. for to eten to gredily [830] Thise been / the fyue fyngres of the deueles hand. by whiche. he draweth folk to synne . . . .
