¶How the groūde of lecherie shold be destroyed with ghostli traueyle & wyth bodily / Caplm lxxiii. (Book 73)
BVt this traueyle ayenst the groūde of lecherie shal be go¦ostly / as by prayers & ghostly vertues. and not by bodily penaūce. For wyte thou well that yf thou fast & wake & scour¦ge thyselfe / and doo all that thou can / thou shalt neuer haue ye clennes & the chastite wythout the yefte of god & the garce of mekenes / Thou sholdest sooner slee thyselfe than thou shol∣deste slee flesshly stirynges & felynges of lust & lecherie either in thyn herte or in thy flesshe by ony bodily penaūce / But by the grace of Ihesu in a meke soule the groūde maye be moche sto¦pped & destroyed. and the sprynge maye be moche dryed / And that is very chastite in body & in soule / On the same manere may be said of pride & of couetise and of suche other. for thou myghte lyue yf thou were not prowde ne couetous / And ther¦fore thou shalt destroye all the felynges of hem asmoche as yu maye / But in glotenye thou shalt ryse & smyte awaye the vn¦skylfull stirynges. and saue the grounde hole /