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ANd therfore he that ryseth ayenst the felyng of flesshly likynge in mete and drynke more fully and more sha••¦ply than of pryde or couetyse / whyche for they semen fayr a∣ren not lyghtely reproued / Or of Enuye. or of Lecherye /
I saye that he is halfe blynde / for he seeth not yet ghostly vn∣clennes / As of pryde and enuye how fowle it is in goddis siʒ¦te / I hope yf a man myght see wyth his eye ghostly how fou¦le pryde and couetyse arne in the syghte of god / and how con¦trarye to hym / He sholde more loth a styryng of pryde and the vayne lykynge of it / And also he sholde the more agryse and ryse ayenst that euyll wyll of enuye or yre to his euen crysten than many a styryng or lykyng eyther of glotenye or of leche¦rye / Neuertheles all men wenen not soo / For comynly men arn more eschewe for to fele a styryng of flesshly synne / and haue for it more sorowe and heuynesse than for the grete li¦kynges in vayne glory or in other ghostly synnes / But they arn not wise / For yf they wyll vnderstonde holy writte & docto¦urs sawes therof / they sholden fynde as I saye / whiche I ne maye ne wyll reherse now / I wyll not exscuse hem that fallē in likynges of glotenye and lecherye that they synne not / For I wote well that all the spyces of hem arn synne more or les¦se after the mesure of the luste of the synne and other lykyn∣ges wyth wylfull cyrcumstaunces / But I wolde that thou knewe and charged all / ylke a synne as it is / more the more / as arn ghostli syn̄es / lesse the lesse arn as flesshly synnes. And yet shall thou neuertheles hate and flee all both bodily & ghos¦tly vpon thy myghte / For wyte thou wel that flesshly desires and vnskylfull likynges in mete & drynke / Or ony likynges that longen to the body passynge resonable nede. though thei ben not alwaye grete synnes to hym that is in charyte / neuer¦thelesse to a soule that desyreth clennes and ghostly felyng of god they arn full heuy paynfull and bitter and moche for to eschewe. For the spiryte maye not fele his kyndly sauour wt in. tyll the flesshe haue loste his bestly sauour wythouten /