[6-text p 672] [954] Soothly a whyt wal . al thogh it ne brenne nat fully by stynkyng of a Candle; yet is the walle blakke of the light [955] full ofte tyme I rede that no man triste in his owne perfeccion . but he be strenger than Sampson . or holier than Dauid/ or wiser than Salomon //
[956] Now after that I haue declared yow as I kan . the seuen deedly synnes . & som of hire braunchis & hire remedies soothly if I coude . I wolde telle yow the x commaundementes [957] But so hye a doctrine I lete to dyuynes / natheles I hope to god they ben touched in this tretys . eueryche of hem alle
De confessione
[958] NOw for as moche as for the secounde partye of peni|tence stant in confession of mouth . as I began in the second chapitre I sey seint Augustyn seith / [959] synne is euery word/ & euery dede / And alle that men coueiten agayn the law of Ihesu criste / & this is for to synne in herte / in mowth / & in dede / by thi v. wittys / that ben sight . huryng . smellynge tastynge . or sauorynge and felynge // [960] Now is it good to vndirstonde the circumstaunces that aggreggen muchel euery synne//[961] Thow shalte considere . what thow art that doist synne . whether thow be male or female . yonge or/ olde gentell/ or thralle . free / or seruaunt . hole / or syke / wedded/ or sengle / ordred or vnordred . wis or fool . clerke / or seculer / [962] if she be of thy [Christ Church MS folio 274b] kynrede bodely or gostely / or noon / if any of thy kynrede haue synne[d] with hire or noon //
[963] Another circumstaunce is this / whether it be [done] in fornicacioun . or in avoutrie . or Incest or noon / Mayden or noon . in manere of homycyde or noon . orrible grete synnes . or smale . and how longe thow haste contynued in synne // [964] The thridde circumstaunce / is the place / where thow haste doon synne / whether in other
