[6-text p 668] violence þouhtes þat bien enclosed in mannes mynde whan he goþe to slepe whiche may not bue with outen sinne; For whiche he may noȝt kepe him wiselye; or elles maie men sinne ful greuously
[The Remedy against Lechery.]
[915] ¶ Nowe comeþ remedy aȝeines lycherye & þat is generaly chastite & continence; þat re|freyneþ. [folio 250b] al þe disordeine meueinges þat comen of flesscly talanteȝ; [916] And euere þ[e] grete merite shal he haue þat moste restreyneþ þe wykkede eschau|feinges of ordur of þis sinne; & þis is in tuo maners; þat is for to seyn; chastite of Mariage & chastite of wydewhede;// [917] Now schalt þou knowe þat matrimony is leful assemblynge of man & womman þat receyue be vertue of sacrament þe bande þoruhe whiche þei maie not bu departed al here lif; þat is to sey whiles þei leuen boþe; [918] ¶ þis is as seiþe þe boke a ful gret sacrament; God maked it as .I. haue seide in paradise; & wolde him self bu borne in mariage; [919] ¶ And for to halowen mariage he was at wedynge where as he torned water vnto wyne; whiche was þe firste miracle þat he wrouhte here in erþe befor his deciples; [920] trewe effecte of Mariage clenseþ fornicacion; & replenyscheþ holy chirche of good lignage; for as þe ende of Mariage & it chaungeþ dedly sinne in to veniale be-twex hem þat biene wedded; & makeþ þe hertes alone. . . . . [no gap in the MS.] [921] þis is þe verrey maryage þat is ystabist be god; ere þat sinne beganne; whan natural lawe was in his riht pointe in paradise ¶ And it ordeynede þat o mān schold haue bot o womman; & o womman bott o mān; as seiþ seint Austine be mony resones;
[922] first for þat Mariage is figured betuex man &
