[6-text p 645] saist soth. haue þou þe ȝerde my deere sone and correcte me for myn impacience. [674] Of pacience comeþ obedience. þurgh which a man is obedient to crist/ and to alle hem to which him oughte to be obedient in crist. [675] and vnderstonde wel þat obedience is parfyt. whan a man doþ gladly & hastily with good herte outrely al þat he scholde do [676] ¶ Obedience is generally to parforme þe doctrine of god and of his soueraignes to whiche him oughte to ben obeissant in alle rightwisnes. [[No break in the MS.]]
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AFter þe synne of enuye and Ire. now wol I speke of . . . [no gap] accidie. For enuye blendith þe hert of a man and Ire troublith a man and accidie makith him heuy. þoughtful. and wrawe [678] ¶ Enuye and Ire maken bitternes in herte. which bitternesse is mooder of accidie and bynimith þe loue of alle goodnes. þanne is accidie þe anguische of trouble hert and seint augustyn saith . . . . . [no gap] [679] ¶ Certes þis is a dampnable synne. For it doþ wrong to Ihū [folio 272a] crist in as moche as it bynymeþ þe seruice þat we ought to do to crist wiþ alle diligence as saiþ Salomon [680] ¶ But accidie doþ noon such diligence. he doþ alle þing wiþ anoy and with drawenes. slaknes and excusacioun. and with ydelnes & vnlust for which þe book saith ¶ Accursed be he þat doþ þe seruice of god necligently [681] . . . . . [no gap] enemy to euery astaat of man ¶ For certes þestat of . . . . .[682] . . . [no gap in the MS.] Innocence. as was þastate of adam biforn þat he fel in to synne in which estate he is holden to worche as in herying and honouryng of god [683] ¶ Anoþer astat is þe state of sinful man. in which estate. men ben holden
