[6-text p 673] mennes hous / or in thyn owne . in felde or in chirche . or in chirche hawe / in chirche dedicat or noon / [965] For if the chirche be halewed . and man or woman spilde his kynde inwith that place by wey of synn[e] or by wikked temptacion; the chirche is entredited . til it be reconsiled by the bysshope / [966] and the preest sholde be entredited that dide swiche a vilenye to terme of alle his lyfe he sholde nomore synge masse / & if he dide; he sholde doon deedly synne . at euery tyme that he songe masse // [967] The ferthe circumstaunce is be whiche mediat|ours . as by messageris . or for enticement . or for consentement to bere compaignye . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] wole goo the deuel of helle [968] for they that egge[n] or con|senten to the synne; ben prisoners to the synne . & of the damnacion of the synnere //
[969] The fyfthe is how many tymes that he ha[th] synned if it be in his mynde . & how ofte that he hath falle . [970] For he that ofte falleȝ in synne; he despised the mercy of god . & encresseth his synne & is vnkynde to criste / & he wexeth the more febl[e] to withstonde synne . & synneth the more lightly . [971] & the latter aryseth . & is the more eschewe for to schryue hym . and namely to hym that hath ben his con|fessour / [972] For whiche that folke whan that they fallen agayn in hire olde folyes . other they leten hire olde confessours al outrely . or they departen hire shryfte in dyuers places / but soothly swiche departed shrifte deserueth no mercy of god of his synnes // [973] The sixte circum|staunce is . why that a man synneth . a[s] by whiche tempta|cion . & if hym selfe procure thilke temptacioun or by the ex|citynge of other folke / or if he synne with a woman [b]y force / or by hire owne assente . [974] or if the woman maugre hire hed[e] hath be aforced or noon this shalle she telle / for couetise / or for pouerte / & if it was hire procurynge or noon / & swiche maner
