[6-text p 641] And therefore seyth Salomon. An hous that is onkeuered & droppynge / & a chidynge wif been lyke / [632] ¶ A man that is in a droppynge hous / in manye placis / thow he eschewe the droppynge in on place. it droppyth on hym in anothir place / so farth it by a chydynge wif / but ȝif sche schide hyn in on place . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [633] [folio 423a] And therfore betere is a morsel of breed with Ioye; than an housful of delicis with chidyng seith Salomon / [634] Seynt Poule seyth / ȝe wemen be ȝe subiectis to ȝoure hous|bondis as byhouyth in god / And ȝe men louyth ȝoure wiuys. ad Colonienes .3o.
[635] ¶ Aftyrward speke we of skornynge whiche is a wekkede synne / And namely whan he skornyth a man [["a man" repeated in MS.]] for hise goode werkis / [636] ffor certis sweche skornerys faryn lik the foule toode that may not endure to smelle the sote sauour / of the vyne whan it floryschith / [637] these skorneris been partynge felauis / with the deuyl / ffor they han Ioye whan the deuyl wynnyth / & sorwe whan he lesith / [638] they been aduersaryis of Ihesu crist / for they hatyn that he louyth / that is to seyne saluacioun of soule /
[639] Speke we now of wekkede conseyl /. . . . . [no gap in the MS.] whiche is a traytour for he disseyuyth hym that trustith in hym ¶ Vt Achitofel ad Absolonem / But natheles / ȝit is his wekkede conseil fyrst a-geyn hym self / [640] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] that he that wele a-noye a-nothyr man / he anoyeth ferst hym self [641] And men schal vndyrstonde that man schal not take his conseyl of false folk ne of angery folk ne of greuous folk ne of folk that louyn specially to meche wordely folk / namely in conseylynge of soulys //
[642] ¶ Now comyth the synne of hem that sowyn & makyn discord a-mongis / folk whiche is a synne that
