[6-text p 634] boþe of crist and eek of alle his halwes. [560] Is nat þis a cursed vice; yis certis. it bynymeth fro man his witte and his resoun and al his deboneire lyf spirituel þat scholde kepen his soule [561] ¶ Certes it bynymeþ eek goddis dewe lordschipe and þat is mannes soule. and þe loue of his neighebor. hit stryueþ eek alday agayns trouþe ¶ It reueth him eek þe quiete of his hert and subuertith his herte and his soule
[562] ¶ Of ire comeþ þese stynkynge engendrures ¶ First hate þat is old wraþþe discord þurgh which a man forsakiþ his olde frend þat he haþ loued ful longe. [563] and þanne comeþ werre and euery maner of wronge þat man doth to his neighebor in body or catel [564] ¶ Of þis cursed synne of Ire comeþ eek manslaughter. And vnderstonde wel þat homicidie þat is man-slaughter is in diuers wise. ¶ Som maner of homicidie is spirituel and som is bodily. [565] [folio 268a] Spirituel manslaughter is in sixe þinges ¶ First by hate as saith seint Iohan ¶ he þat hateþ his broþer is an homicide. [566] homicide is eek by bak-bytyng of whiche bakbiters saith Salamon þat þay haue twaye swerdes with whiche þay slen here neighebors. For soþely as wikke is to bynyme his good name as his lif. [567] homicidy is eek in ȝeuyng of wikkid counseil by fraude as for to ȝeue counseil to areyse wicked and wrongful custumes and taliages [568] of whiche saiþ Salomon ¶ leoun roryng and bere hungry ben like to þe cruel lordschipes in wiþholdyng or abbrigging of þe schipe or the hyre or þe wages of seruauntes or ellis in vsure or in withdrawyng of almes of pore folk [569] For whiche þe pore man saith ¶ Feedith him þat almost dyeth for hunger. for soþely but if þou feede him; þou slest him and eek þese ben dedly synnes. [570] bodily manslaughter is. whan þou sleest him wiþ þy tonge in oþer manere as whan þou comaundist to slen a man or elles ȝiuest counseil to slee a
