[6-text p 604] ordere / but alle thynge been ordeyned / & noum|bered but ȝit natheles / þey that been dampned / ben no thyng in ordere / ne holdyn non ordere / [219] for the erthe ne schal bere hem no freut / [220] For as the prophete Dauid seith god schal distroye the freut of the erthe as fro hem ne the watyr schal ȝeue hem no moysture / ne the ayr no refreschynge / ne fer no lyght [221] ffor as seith seynt Basilie / the brennynge of the fuyr of this world / schal god ȝeuyn in helle to hem that been dampnyd / [222] but the lyȝt & the clernesse schal be ȝeuyn in heuene / to hise childeryn / righ as the goode men ȝeuyn flesch to here childeryn / & bonys to here houndis / [223] And for they schul haue non hope to escape / seyth seynt Iob at the laste. there schal horrour And gresely drede dwelle / with-outyn ende [224] ¶ Horrour is al wey drede of harm / that is to come / And þis drede schal euere dwelle / in the hertis of hem that been dampned / & therfore han they lore al here hope for .vij causis / [225] ¶ fferst for god that seyth / here Iuge schal ben with-oute mercy to hem / & they may not plesyn hym / ne none of hise halwis / ne they ne may ȝeue no thyng for here raunsum / [226] ne they schul [ [Cambr. leaf405 is cut out; sup|plied from Harl. MS. 1758, on leaf 208, back] haue no vois to speke to hym. Ne thei may noght fle fro peyne. Ne thei haue no goodnes in hem that thei may schewe to delyuer hem fro peyne. [227] ¶ And therfore seith Salamon. The wicked man [¶ Salamon.] dyeth & when he is deed he schall haue non hope to escape fro peyne. [228] Who so aschamed is well wolde vn|dirstonde these peynes & bi-thynke hym well that he hath deseruyd thilk peynes for his synnes. Certis he schulde haue more talent to sike & to wepe; then for to syngen & to pleie. [229] ¶ ffor as seith Salamon [¶ Salamon.] who so that hadde the science for to knowe the peynes that ben establisched & ordeyned for synne he wolde make sorow. [230] Thilke science as seith seynt Austyn [¶ Augustinus.] maketh a man to weymentyn in his herte.
[231] ¶ The fourþe poynt that ought make a man [.4. causa.]
