De septem peccatis mortalibus & eorum &c
[387]
NOw is it bihouely thinge / to tellen whiche ben the .vij. dedly synnes / that is to seyne cheveteynes of synnes / but alle thei renne in Ooles / but in dyuers maners / Now ben thei cleped cheveteynes / for-as-meche as thei ben cheff / & of hem springen alle other synnes / [388] of the rote of these .vij. sinnes / than is pride the general rote of alle harmes / ffor of this rote springen certeine branches / as Ire / Enuye / accidie / or slouthe / Auarice / or couetise to comune vnderstonding / Gloteneye / & Lecherie / [389] And eueryche of these cheff synnes hath his branches & his twigges / as shal be declared in here chapitres folwynge /
[Of Pride, and its Twigs.]
[390] And though so be that no man can vtterly telle the nombre of the twigges & of the harmes that comyn of pride / yit wol I shewe a parte of hem as ye shul vnderstonde [391] ‖ There is Inobedience ‖ Avauntynge / Ypocrisie ‖ Despite ‖ Arrogaunce / In [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 280a] prudence ‖ Swellinge of herte ‖ Insolence ‖ Elacion ‖ . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] Partinacie ‖ Veynglorie ‖ & many a-nother twigge that I can nat declare ‖ [392] Ino|bedient is he / that disobeyeth for dispite to the commaunde|ment [¶ Inobedient] of god / & to his souereynes / & to his gostly fader ‖ [393] Auauntour is he that bosteth of the harme [¶ Auauntour] or of the bounte / that he hath don / [394] ypocrisie is he that hideth him / to shewe him / suche as he is / and shewith him suche as he is not ‖ [395] Dispitous [¶ Dispitous] is he that hath disdeine of his neighbours / that is to seine / of his euen cristen / or hath dispite to do / that him oughte to do ‖ [396] Arrogaunt is he / that thinketh [¶ Arrogaunt.] that he hath thilke bounte in him / that he hath nought / or
