[6-text p 659] I haue oft seide to yow / & now I seie it wepinge / to hem that ben enemyes of the croyce of criste / of whiche the ende is dethe / and of whiche here wombe is here god / & here glorie in confusion of hem that sc devouren erthely thinges / [821] he that is vsante to this synne of glotenye / he ne may no synne with-stande / he moste be in the seruage of alle synnes or vicis / for it is the deuels horde there he hideth him inne & resteth / [822] this synne hath many spices / The first is dronkenesse / that is the sepulture of manis reson / & ther|fore whan a man is dronke he hath loste his reson / & this is dedly synne / [823] but certis whan a man is nought wonte to stronge drinke / ne perauenture ne knowith nat the strengthe of the drinke / or hath feblenesse in his hede / or he hath travailled thorugh whiche he drynketh the more / al be he so sodenly caughte with drynke / it is no dedly synne but venial / [824] The seconde spice of gloteneye is / whan the spirite of man waxeth al trouble for dronkenesse / & birevith him the discresion of his witt / [825] The thride spice of glotenye is whan a man devoureth his meete / & hath no rightful manere of etynge / [826] The ferthe is whan thorugh the grete abund|aunce of his meete / the humores of his body ben dis|temperede / [827] The .v. is foryetefulnesse / bi to mechel drynkynge / for whiche somtyme a man for-yetith bi the morowe / what he dide at eve or on the night biforne /
[828] In other manere ben discrived the spices of glotenye / affter seynt Gregorie / The first is for to ete bi [¶ Gregorie.] fore tyme / The .ij.de is whan a man geteth him to delicate meete / [829] The .iij.de is whan a man taketh to mechel ouere mesure / The .iiij. [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 298a] is the curiouste / with grete entente to make & apparaille his meete / The .v. is to ete to gredily / [830] These ben the .v. fyngeris of the Deuels honde / bi the whiche he drawith folke to synne /
