[6-text p 627] noon other man / [480] The thride is / that he rekketh nat though men holde him nought worthe / The ferthe is whan he is nat sory / of his humyliacion / [481] Also the humilite of mouthe is in foure thinges / In attempre speche / & in humble speche / and whan he biknowith with his owne mouth that he is suche / as him thinketh that he is in his herte / another is whan he preisith the bounte of another man / & no thing therof amennsith [482] humilite / Eke humilite in werkes is in foure maners / the firste is whan he putteth other men biforne him / the seconde is / to chese the loweste place ouer al / the thrid is gladly to assente to good counsaile / [483] the fourthe is gladly to stonde to the worde of his soueraignes / or of him that is in highere degre than he / & this is a grete werke of humylite //
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Affter pride wol I speke of the foule synne of envie / whiche that is / as bi the wordes of the Philosophre sorowe of other mannes prosperite / and after the worde of seint Austyne / hit is sorowe of other mennes [¶ Austyne.] wele / & ioye of othe[r] men-is harme / [485] This foule synne is platly ayeine the holy goste / . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] yit natheles for-asmeche that bounte apperteyneth properly to the holy gost / And envie cometh properly of malice / ther|fore it is properly ayeines the bounte of the holy goste // [486] Now hath malice two [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 283b] spices / that is to seie hardnesse / & wikkednesse / or elles the flesshe of a man / that is so blinde that he considreth nought that he is in synne /. . . . . [no gap in the MS.] whiche is the hardnesse of the deuel // [487] That other spice of malice is / whan that a man werreieth trouth / whan that he woote that hit is trouth / & eke whan he werreieth the grace that god hath yive / to his
