[6-text p 658] euencristen / & eke chastice there as nede is / [811] Another manere remedie ayeins auarice is resonable largesse / but sothely here bihovith the con|sideracion of the grace of Ihesu criste / & of his temporel goodes / & eke of the goodes perdurable that criste yaff vs / [812] & eke to haue remembraunce of the dethe that he shal resceive he note whanne / & eke that he shal forgon al that he hath / saue only that / he hath dispendid in goode workes /
[813] But for-asmeche as somme folke ben vnmesur|able / men oughten eschue foole largesse that men clepen waste / [814] Certis he that is foole large ne yevith nought his catel / but he leseth his catel / Certes what thinge that he yevith for vaynglorie / as to mynstralles / & to folke for to bere his renoun in the worlde he hath don synne & noon almes / [815] Certis he leseth foule his goode / that ne seketh nothinge with his goode but synne / [816] he is like an hors that seketh rather to drynke droupy water or troubly / than for to drinke water of the clere welle / [817] And for-asmeche as thei yeuen there as they shulde nat yeuen / to hem apperteyneth that malison that crist shal yeue at the day of dome to hem that shulle be dampnede
De gula.
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Affter auarice cometh glotenye / whiche is expresse eke ayeines the commaundementes of [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 297b] god / glotenye is vnmesurable appetite to ete / or to drinke / or ellis to don I-noughe / to the vnmesurable [[appetite erased]] & discorde covetise to ete & to drinke / [819] This sinne cor|rumppeth al this worlde / as is wel shewed in the synne of Adam & of Eue / Lo eke what seith seint Paule / of [¶ Paule] gloteneye / [820] Many folke of whiche
