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| And yaf of hit to her husbonde / and he eet / And anon | |||
| the eyen of hem bothe opend / 256 And whan they knewe that | |||
| they were nakyd / they sowid of a fyg tre leeuys in maner | |||
| of brechis to hiden her membris / 257 Here may ye see that dedely | |||
| synne hath first suggestion of the fende / As shewith here | |||
| by the adder / And afterward the delyte of the flesh as | |||
| shewith here by Eue / And after by consentyng of reson | |||
| as shewith by Adam / 258 For trust wel though so were the | |||
| fende tempted one that is to saye the flesh / And the flesh | |||
| had delyte in the beaute of the fruyt defendid / Yet certes | |||
| til that reson that is to saye Adam consentid to the etyng | |||
| of the fruyt / he stode high in the state of Innocence259 Of that | |||
| Adam toke we that synne of oryginal / For of hym flesshly | |||
| descended ben we alle and engendrid of vile and corupt | |||
| mater / 260 And whan the soule is put in our body right anon | |||
| is contract origynal synne / And that was only peyne of | |||
| concupiscence / whiche is afterward both peyne and synne | |||
| 261 And therfore be we alle born sones of wrath & of damp- | |||
| nacion perdurable yf ne were baptesme that we receyue / . | |||
| whyche benymeth vs the culpe / but forsothe the peynes dwelle | |||
| with vs as the temptacion / Whyche peyne highte concu- | |||
| piscence / 262 And this concupiscence whan it is wrongfully | |||
| disposed or ordeyned in man / hit maketh him coueyte coue | |||
| tyse of flesh and fleshly synne by sight of his eyen as to | |||
| erthely thinges / And eke couetyse of highnes by pryde of | |||
| herte / 263 Now as for to speke of the first couetyse that is con- | |||
| cupiscence after the lawe of our membres that were lawfully | |||
| made and by ryghtful Iugement of god 264 I say for as | |||
| muche as a man is not obeyssaunt to god that is his lord | |||