[6-text p 598] ben ȝe foulere for ȝoure longe continaunce in synne and ȝoure synful vsage for whiche ȝe ben roten in ȝoure synne as a beeste in his dunge [140] Suche maner of þouȝtes maken a man haue schame for his synne and no delite as god saiþ by þe prophete Ezechiel [Ezechiel] [141] ¶ ȝe schuln remembre ȝow of ȝoure weyes and þey schuln displese ȝow soþely ¶ Synnes ben þe weyes þat leden folk to helle
[142] ¶ The secounde cause that oughte to make a man to haue disdeyne of synne is þis þat as saiþ seint petre who so [folio 263a] doþ synne is þralle of synne and [Petrus] synne putteþ a man in gret þraldom [143] and þer|fore saiþ þe prophete Ezechiele I wente sorwful in desdeyn of myself Certes wel aughte a man haue disdeyne of synne and wiþdrawe him fro þat þraldom and vilenye [144] ¶ And lo what saiþ Seneca [Seneka] in þis matiere he saiþ þus Though I wiste þat neyþer god ne man ne schulde neuere knowen it/; ȝet wolde I haue disdeyne for to do synne. [145] And þe same Seneka seiþ ¶ I am born to grettere þinges þan to be þralle to my body. [146] More þralle may no man ne no womman make of his body; þan ȝeue his body to synne [147] ¶ And were it þe foulest cheerl or þe foulest womman þat lyueþ and lest of value ȝet is he changed and most foule and more in seruitute [148] euer fro þe heiher degre þat man falleþ þe more is he þralle and more vnto god and to þe worlde vile and abhomin|able [149] ¶ O goode god wel aughte men haue disdeyne of synne. seþþen þat þurgh synne þer he was free now is he maked bonde / [150] and þerfore seiþ seint austyn ¶ If þou haue desdeigne of þy seruant/ if he agilt or synned. haue þou þanne disdeyne þat þou þi self schuldest do synne [151] Take reward of þy value þat þou ne be to foul to þin value ne self [152] ¶ Allas wel oughten þey þanne haue disdeyn to be
