[6-text p 599] seruantȝ and þralle to synne and sore ben aschamed of hemself [153] ¶ þat god of his endeles goodnesse haþ set hem in heih astate or ȝeuen hem wiþ strengþe of body hele. beaute. prosperite / [154] and bought hem fro þe deth wiþ his herte blood þat þay so vnkyndely aȝeins his gentilnesse quyten him so vileynesly to slaughter of here owne soules [155] ¶ O goode god ȝe wommen þat ben of so gret beaute Remembreth ȝou of þe prouerbe of Salamon ¶ he seiþ [¶ Salamon] [156] he likeneþ a fair womman þat is a fool of hire body y-like to a rynge of golde þat werith in þe groyne of a sowe [157] ¶ ffor right as a sowe wroteþ in euery ordure so wroteþ sche hire beaute in stynkynge ordure of synne
[158] ¶ The þridde cause þat oughte to meuen a man [¶ iija causa] to contricion is drede of þe day of doome and of þe horrible peynes of helle [159] ¶ ffor as seint Ierom saiþ [¶ Ieronimus] ¶ At euery tyme þat me remembreþ of þe day of doome I quake. [160] ffor whan I ete or drinke or do what so I do; euere semeþ me þat þe trompe sowneþ in myn eere. [161] Riseþ vp þat ben deede and comeþ to þe Iuggement [162] of goode god mechel aughte a man to drede such a Iuggement þere as we schuln ben alle as seiþ seint Poule byfore þe strete of oure lord ihesu crist [163] wher as he schal maken a general con|gregacion wher as no man may ben absent [164] ffor certes þere ne auayleþ non essoyne ne excusacion [165] [folio 263b] And nouȝt only þat oure defautes schullen ben y-Iuged ¶ but eek þat alle oure werkes schuln openly ben knowen [166] and as þat saiþ Seint bernard. þer ne [Bernardus] schal no pledynge auayle ne no sleighte we schullen ȝeuen rekenyng of euery ydel word [167] ¶ Ther schuln we haue a Iugge þat may nought / be deceyued ne corupt. And why; ffor certes alle oure þoughtes ben discouered as to him ne for prayere. ne for meede he wil not ben corrupte [168] ¶ And þerfore saith Salamon ¶ The wraþþe of god [Salamon] wol nought ben corrupte And þerfore saith Salamon þe wreche
