Remedium contra peccatum Gule
[831]
Ageyns glotenye is the remedie Abstynence as seyth Galiene / but that holde I not meritorye / ȝif he do it only for the hele of the body. Seynt Augustyn wele that abstynence be doon forvertu & not for vice / but with pacyence. [832] Abstynence he seyth is lytil worth but ȝif a man haue ryght good wil therto & but it be enforsed bi pacience / And be charite & that men don it for godis sake And in 1hope to haue the blysse of heuene
[833] ¶ The felawis of abstynence been attemper|aunce/ that holdith1 [[1_1 MS. repeats hope to haue the blysse of heuene ¶ The felawis of abstynence been [folio 433a] Attemperaunce. that holdith]] the meene in alle thyngis. Ek schame that eschewith al disoneste ¶ Sufferaunce that sekith no ryche metis ne drenkys / ne doth no fors of too outragious apparaylynge of mete. [834] Mesure also that restreynyth by resoun the dislaue appetit of etynge / Sobirnesse also that restreynyth the outrage of drynk. [835] Sparynge also that restreynyth the delicat man as is to sitte longe at his mete & softely wherfore some folk stondyn of here owene wil to etyn at the lasse leyser. [[Two paintings, "Lecherye," seated on a goat, with a sparrow (both animals types of lechery) on her right forefinger, and "Chastite" standing on the rump and forepaws of some tawny couchant tuskt animal, with a spear in her hand.]]
Sequitur de peccato Luxurie
[836]
AFtyr glotonye comyth Lecherye For these two synnys been so nygh Cosynys / that ofte tyme thei wele not departe god [837] wot This synne is ful displesaunt thyng to god For he seyde hym self. Do no lecherye And therfor he putte greete peynys a-geyn this synne in the olde lawe / [838] ¶ If woman thral were takyn in this synne sche schulde been betyn with stonys to the deth. And ȝif sche weere a gentil weman sche schulde be slayn with stonys / And if sche we [folio 433b] re a bischopis doughtyr sche schulde been brent by godis comaundement. [839] ferthere ouyr bi the synne of lecherye god drenkte al the world / at the
