[6-text p 649] [717] Certes than semeth hit that thei shul be turmented / with the deuel in helle / but if thei don penitence /
[718] Than cometh the synne that men clepen tarditas / as whan a man is to latrede or to tariyng / or [¶ tarditas] he wol turne to god / & certis that is a grete folye / he is like him that fallith in the diche & wol nought arise / [719] as this vice cometh of fals hope that he thenketh that he shal leve longe / bu[t] that hope failith ful offte /
[720] Than cometh laches that is he / that whan he [¶ Laches.] bigynneth any goode werke / a-non he wol forlete it & stynte / as don thei that haue any wight [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 293a] to gouerne / & ne taken of him no more kepe / anoon as thei fynde any contrarie or any anoye / [721] these ben the newe shepperdes that laten here shepe renne weti[n]gly to the wolff that is in the breres / or don no force of here owne gouernaunce / [722] Of this cometh pouerte / and distruccion bothe of spirituel & of temporel thinges / Than cometh a manere of coldnesse / that fresith at the herte of man / [¶ coldenesse.] [723] Than cometh vndevocion / thorugh the whiche a man is [¶ vndevocion.] blente / as seith seint Bernarde and suche langour in [¶ Bernard.] soule / that he ne may neither rede ne synge / in holy chirche / ne hire ne thenke of no deuocion / ne travaile with his hondes in no goode workes/that hit nys to him vnsaverie/ & al appalled / [724] than wexeth he sore & slowe & slombri & soone wol be wrothe / & soone is he enclyned to hate & to envie [725] Than cometh the synne of wordly sorowe / whiche that is cleped tristicia / that sleth [¶ Sorow.] a man as seint Poule / [726] ffor certis suche sorowe [¶ Poule] wercheth to the dethe of the soule & of the bodie also / fforther ouere than cometh that a man is anoyed of his owne liff/ [727] wherfore suche sorowe shorteth ful offte the liff of men / or that here tyme come bi wey of kynde /
