[6-text p 631] / for yf it were reson / þat man shold hate his enemye / forsoth god nold nat resceyve vs to his love / þat ben his enemyes [524] Ayeinst .iij. maner of wronges / þat his enemye doth to hym / he shall do thre thynges as þus / [525] Ayeinst hate/ [[ [Eg. 2726 folio 254a] : Ayeinst hate repeated.]] and rancour of Hert / he shall love hym in Hert/ Ayeinst chidyng and wykked wordes / he shall praye for his enemye/ Ayeinst þe wykked dede of his enemye / he shall don hym bountee/ 526] ffor Crist seith loveth your enemyes and prayeth for hem þat speke you harme / and eke for hem / þat you chasen and pursuen / and doth bountee to hem / þat you haten / lo thus commaundeth vs our lord Ihesu Crist to do to our enemyes / [527] fforsoth Nature dryveth vs to love our frendes / and parfeye our enemyes han more nede to love / þan our frendes / and þey þat more nede han / certes to hem shollen men do gode|nesse / [528] and certes in thilk dede / have we remem|braunce of the love of Ihesu Crist / that deyed for his enemyes / [529] And in-asmoch as thilk loue / is þe more greuous to perfourme / So moch is the more grete the merite And þerfore the lovyng of our enemye hath confounded the venym of þe devyll [530] for right as þe devill / is discomfited by humylitee / right so is he wounded to the deth/ by love of our Enemye / [531] Certes þan is loue the medecyn that casteth out the venym of Envye from mannes hert/ [532] þe spices of this pace shull be more largely declared in her chapitres folowyng./.
Hic Remedium Inuidie desinit & tractus Ire Incipit /.
[533]
After Envye woll I descryve þe synne of Ire for sothly who-so þat hath Envye vp-on his neighbour / anone he woll comunely fynde hym a mater of wrath / in worde or in dede / ayeinst hym / to whom he hath envye [534] And as wele comth Ire of Pride /
