[6-text p 639] & to damage of anoþere manere; [610] ¶ Anoþere leseinge for to . . . [no gap in the MS.] [folio 242b] Anoþere leseinge commeþ of delite for to lye. In whiche delite þei wil forgen a longe tale & peynte it wiþ al circumstance; wher al þe grounde of þe tale is fals; [611] Somme leseinge commeþ for he wil susteyine his worde; And sum leseynge cometh of rechelnesse; wiþ outen avisement; & sem|blable þinges
[612] ¶ Lat vs now touche þe vice of flaterye whiche ne comeþ nouht gladly bot for drede or for Couetise; [613] Flatery is generally wrongeful preyseinge ¶ Flatrer|es bene þe deueles norices þat norischen his childerne wiþ melke of losengrye; [614] ffor soþe seiþe Salomon; þat flatery is wers þan detraccione; ffor sum tyme de|traccion makeþ an haunten mān þe more humble for he dredeþ detraccion; ¶ Bot certes flatery makeþ a man to enhante his herte and his countenance; [615] fflatery bien þe deuels enchauntour; ffor þei maake a man to wene of him self to be like þat he nys nouht lyke; [616] þei bien like to Iudas þat be-trayed . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] a man to sel him to his ennemye þat is to þe deuel [617] ¶ Flatereres bien þe deuel chapelleines þat singen euer placebo; [618] I. reken flatery in þe vices of ire; ¶ For oft time if a man be wroþe wiþ anoþere; þen wil he flatere sum wyght to susteine him in his qwerell;
[619] Speke we nowe of suche cursinge as commeþ oute of Irrous herte; Malyson may be seide generallye; euery man power of harme such cursynge bereueþ man fro þe Regne of god; As seiþe seint Poule; [620] þat suche cursinge wrongefully retourneþ oft tyme aȝeine to him þat curseþe As a birde retourneþ aȝeine vn to his owen neste; [621] And ouere alþinge men ouhte eschewe to curse her childern & ȝeue to þe deuel here engendorere as fer forþe as in hem is ¶ Certes it is a grete perile & a grete sinne;
