[6-text p 627] non oþer man // [480] þe þridde is whenne he rekkeþ not þorwȝ men holde hym nouȝt worth // þe iiij is whenne he nys not sory of hys humilyacion [481] Also þe humylyte of mouth is in 4 þinges // In atemprure speche & in humble of speche And whenne he by-houyth wiþ his owen mouth þat he is suche as hym þenkiþ þat he is in his herte Anoþer is whenne he preisiþ þe bounte of anoþer man / And noþing þerof amenusiþ [482] humylyte // Eke in werk is in 4 maners / þe firste is whenne he puttiþ oþer men biforn hym / The secunde is to chese þe loweste place ouer all / The iij is gladly to assente to good counsel / [483] The 4 is gladly to stande to reward of Souerayn or of hym þat is heier in degre Certeyn þis is a gret werke of humylyte
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After pruyde wol y speke of þe foule synne of Enuye whiche þat is as by þe worde of þe philozofre Sorwe of oþer mannes prosperite and aftir þe word of Seint Austyn Hit is sorwe of oþere mennes wele And ioye of oþer mannes harme // [485] þis foule synne is platly aȝayn þe holy gost Al be hit so þat euery synne is aȝayn þe holy goste // ȝet for asmoche as bounte appertyneth properly to þe holy gost . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [486] ¶ Now haþ malice 2 spices þat is to seye hardnesse of herte And wickednesse or elles þe flesch of a man is so blynde þat he concidereþ not þat he is in synne . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] whiche is þe hardnesse of þe deuel // [487] That other [Reg. 18, C. 2 folio 250b] spice of Enuye is whenne þat a man werreth trouthe when þat he woot þat hit is trowthe And eke when þat he werreieth þe grace of þat god hath ȝoue to his
