[6-text p 658] euene cristene and ek to chastise there as is neede [811] A nothir maneere of remedye ageyns auaryce; is resonable largesse But sothly heere be-howith the con|sideracioun of the grace of Ihesu crist & of his temperel goodis And ek of the goodis perdurable that crist ȝaf to vs [812] & to han remembraunce of the deth that he schal resceyue he not whanne wheere ne how and ek that he schal forgoon al that he hath / saue only that he hath spendid in goode werkis /
[813] But for asmeche as some folk been onmesur|able / men oughte to eschewe fol largesse that men clepyn wast. [814] ¶ Certis he that is fol large / he ȝevith not his catel but he lesith his catel Sothli wat thyng that he ȝeuyth for veynglorye as to menstrallis & to folk to beryn his renoun in the world he hath synne therof & non almesse [815] Certis he lesyth foule his good / that he ne sekyth with the ȝifte of his good no thyng but synne. [816] he is lyk to an hors that that sekyth rathere to drynkyn drouy or trouble watyr than for to drynke watyr of the cleere welle. / [817] ¶ And for as meche as they . . . . [no gap in MS.] schulde not ȝeuyn to hem apartenyth thilke malicioun that Crist schal ȝeuyn at the day of dome to hem that schuln be dampned
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[folio 432a][Two figures, of a man, 'Glotenye', riding on a bear or sloth?, and of a woman, 'Abstinence', crownd and halo'd, with a jug in the right hand, and a flower in the left. See the Society's Chaucer Autotypes, Part 2.]
[818] AFtir Auarice comyth Glotenye whiche is expres ek a-geyns the comaundement of god Glotenyee/ is vnmesurable apetit to ete or to drynke or ellis to don I-now to the onmesurable appetit / & disordeyned coueytyse to etyn or to drynke [819] ¶ This synne corrumpid / al this world as is weel schewyd in the synne of adam & of eue. Loke ek what seyth seynt poule of glotenye. [820] Manye seyth seynt Poule goon of
