[6-text p 599] seruauntes & þralles to synne. & sore ben aschamed of hemself [153] þat god of his endeles [folio 254b] goodnes haþ set hem in heigh estate or ȝeuen hem witte. strengþ of body. hele. beaute. prosperite. [154] and bought hem fro þe deþ wiþ his herte blood þat þay so vnkyndely aȝeinst his gentilesce quyten so vileynsly to slauȝter of her oughne soules [155] ¶ O goode god ȝe wommen þat ben of so gret beaute remembreþ ȝow of þe prouerbe of Salamon þat saith. [156] he likeneth a fair womman þat is a fool of hir body. to a ryng of gold þat were in þe groyn of a sowe [157] ¶ For right as a sowe wroteþ in euerich ordure; so wrootith sche hir beaute in stynkyng ordure of synne
[158] ¶ The þridde cause þat ouȝte moeue a man to contricioun is drede of þe day of doome. & of þe orrible peynes of helle [159] ¶ For as seint Ierom saith. At euery tyme þat I remembre of þe day of doom; I quake [160] ¶ For whan I ete or drinke or what so þat I doo euer semeth me þat þe trompe sowneþ in myn eere. [161] Riseth ȝe vp þat ben deede / and comeþ to þe Iuggement [162] ¶ O goode god. mochil ought a man to drede such a iuggement. þer as we schul be alle as seiþ seint poul Biforn þe sete of our lord ihū crist [163] wher as he schal make a general con|gregacioun wher as no man may ben absent. [164] for certes þer auayleþ non essoyne ne excusacioun [165] ¶ And nouȝt oonly þat oure defaute schal be . . . . . [no gap] openly knowen. [166] and as seint Bernard saiþ ¶ Ther schal no pleynyng auayle ne no sleight ¶ we schuln ȝiue rekenyng of euery ydel word [167] ¶ Ther schulle we haue a Iuge þat may nouȝt be disceyued ne corupt. and why; For certes alle oure þoughtes ben descouered as to him ne for prayer ne for meede he nyl not / be corupt [168] ¶ And þerfor saiþ Salamon ¶ The wraþþe of god ne wol not be corrupt ¶ And þerfor saiþ Salomon ¶ The wraþ of
