[6-text p 642] crist hateþ vttyrly & no wondir is / for he deyede for to make concord / [643] And moore schame do they to crist than dedyn they that hym crucyfyed / for god louyth louyth bettere that pes be a-mongis folk than he deyede his owene body. whiche that he ȝif for vnyte. therfore been they lekkenyd to the deuyl / that euere is aboute to make discord /
[644] ¶ Now comyth the synne of double tunge whiche as spekyn fayre be-foryn folk & wikkedely by-hynde / or ellis they make semblaunt / as thogh they spoke of good entencioun or ellis in game / & pley . and ȝit they speke of wekkede entent //
[645] ¶ Now comyth bewreyinge of con [folio 423b] seyl thourw whiche a man is diffamyd certis onethe may he restore the damage //
[646] ¶ Now comyth Manace / that is an opyn folye / for he that oftyn manacith; he thretheth moore than he may parforme / ful ofte tyme /
[647] ¶ Now comyn ydele wordis . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] And ek of hym that herkenyn tho wordys / or ellys Idele wordis been tho that been nedelees or with-outyn entent of naturel profit [648] And al be it that ydele wordys / been sum|tyme uenyal synnys ȝit schuldyn men doutyn hem / for we schul ȝeue rekenynge of hem be-fore god
[649] ¶ Now comygh Iangelynge/that may not been with|outyn synne And as seyth Salomon it is a synne of a-pert folye / [650] And therfore a Philisophre seyde whan men axede hym how men schulde plese the peple / And he answerde do manye goode werkis / And speke fewe Iangelys
[651] ¶ Aftyr this comyth the synne of Iaperys / that been the deuyllys apis / for they make men to laughe at here folye / & at here Iaperyes / as folk doon at the gaudis of an Ape / whiche Iaperis diffendyth seynt poule [652] Loke how that vertevous wordis & holye confortyn hem
