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70 For lo what saith Seneca in this mater He saith thus . | |||
Though I wyste that neyther god ne man shold neuer | |||
knowe it / yet wold I haue desdaygn for to do synne / . | |||
71 And the same Seneca saith I am born to gretter thinges | |||
than to be thralle to my body / 72 More thralle may no man | |||
ne woman make of his body than yeue his body to synne. | |||
73 And were it the fowlest chorle or the fowwst woman that | |||
liueth and lest of valew / yet he is charged and most foul | |||
& most in seruitude 74 euer fro the hyer degre that a man falleth | |||
The more is he thral and more to god and to the world | |||
vile and abhominable / 75 O good god wel ought a man haue | |||
disdeygne of synne sith that thorugh that / there as he was | |||
fre now is he made bonde / 76 And therfore saith saint Austyn | |||
Yf thou hast disdayn of thy seruaunt / Yf he agilt or synne | |||
Haue thou then no disdayn that thou thy self shooldest do | |||
synne / 77 Take reward of thyn owhen valew / that thou ne be | |||
to foul to thy self ne to thyne / 78 Allas wel oughten they | |||
that haue disdayn to be seruauntes and thrall to synne . | |||
Sore to be a shamed of hym self / 79 that god of his endles | |||
goodnes hath sette in high astate or yeue hym strength of | |||
body / beaute / prosperyte / 80 and bought hym fro the deth with | |||
his herte blood / that they so vnkyndely agaynst his gen- | |||
tylnes quyten hym so vilonsly to slaughter of her owen | |||
sowlis . 81 O good god ye women that been of grete beaute | |||
remembre you on the Prouerbe of Salamon / he saith He | |||
82 lykneth a fair woman that is a fool of her body to a rynge | |||
of gold that is worn in the groyn of a Sowe . 83 For right | |||
as a sowe wroteth in euery ordure / so wroteth she her beaute | |||
in stynkyng ordure of synne / . 84 ¶ The thirde cause That | |||