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| synne as ferforth as he can / 246 all must be said and nothing | |||
| excused ne hid ne forwrappid and not auaunte hym of | |||
| his good werkis / 247 And fertherouer it is necessarye to | |||
| vnderstande whens that synnys spryngen / And how they | |||
| encrecen / And ther ben 248 spryngyng of synnys as seyth | |||
| seynt Poule in this wyse / That right as by a man synne | |||
| entryd first in to this worlde / and thurgh that synne | |||
| deyde / Right so deth entryd in to alle men that synneden | |||
| 249 And this man was adam by whom that synne entryd | |||
| in to this world / whan he brak the comandement of god | |||
| 250 And therfore he that first was so myghty that he shold | |||
| not haue deyd / becam suche one that he muste nedes deye | |||
| whether he wold or no and al his progenye that is in | |||
| this world that in that maner synne deyen / 251 Loke that | |||
| in the state of Innocence whan Adam and Eue were na- | |||
| ked in paradyse and no shame had of her nakydnes . | |||
| 252 how that the serpent that was most wyly of al other bestes | |||
| that god had made sayd to the woman / comanded god | |||
| to you ye shuld not ete of euery tre in paradyse / 253 The wo | |||
| man answerd of the fruyt sayd she of the trees in para | |||
| dyse we feden vs / But sothly of the fruyt of the tree that | |||
| is in the myddel of paradyse / god forbad vs for to eten | |||
| ne to touche it lest perauenture we shal deye / 254 The serpent | |||
| said to the woman / nay / nay / ye shal not deye of deth | |||
| For soth god wote that what day that ye ete therof your | |||
| eyen shal open and ye shal be as goddes knowyng | |||
| good and harm / 255 The woman sawe that the tre was | |||
| good to fedyng and fair to the eye and delectable to the | |||
| sight / She took of the fruyt of the tree and ete of hit . | |||