[6-text p 634] both of criste / & of alle his halowes / [560] Is nat this a cursed vice / yis certis allas / hit bynemeth from man his witt / & his reson / & al his debonayre liff spirituel / that shulde kepe his soule / [561] Certes hit bynemeth eke god-is diwe lordshippe / & that is man-is soule / & the loue of his neighboure / hit strivith eke alday ayeines trouthe / hit reuyeth him the quiete of his herte / & subuertethe his soule /
[562] Off Ire comen these stinkynge engendrures / ffirst hate that is olde wratthe / discorde thorugh which a man forsaketh his olde frende / that he hath louede ful longe // [563] And than cometh werre / & euery manere of wronge that man doth to his neighboure in body or in catell [564] Off this cursed synne of Ire cometh eke manslaughter / And vnderstondeth wel that homycide that is manslaughter / is in diuerse wise / Some manere of homicide is spirituel / & some is bodily / [565] Spirituel manslaughter is in .vj. thinges / ffirst bi hate as seith seint Iohn / that he that hateth his brother [¶ Iohn.] is an homicide // [566] homicide is eke bi bakbityng / of whiche bakbiters seith Salomon / that thei haue two [¶ Salomon.] swerdis with the whiche thei slen here neighboures / for sothly as wikked it is to byneme him his good name / as his liff / [567] Homicide is eke in yevinge of wikked consail bi fraude / as for to yeve consail to [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 286b] areise wrongfully custumes & tallages / [568] of whiche seith Salomon / Lyoun rorynge / Bere hungry / ben like to [¶ Salomon] cruel lordshippes / in withholdyng or abreggyng of the sheepe / or of the hyre / or of the wages of seruauntes / or ellis in vsure / or in withdrawynge of almesse / fro the pore folke / [569] for which the wise man seith / ffedith him that almoste deyeth for hungre / for sothly but if thow fede him / thow sleest him / And alle these ben dedly synnes / [570] Bodyly manslaughter is whan thow sleest him with thi tonge / in other manere as whan thow commaundist to sle a man / or ellis yevist him consail to sle a
