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| Therfore is his herte to hym disobeyssant / thurgh con- | |||
| cupiscence / 265 hit is Impossible but he be tempted som tyme | |||
| and noyed in his flesh to synne / 266 And thys thyng | |||
| may not fayle as longe as he lyueth / hit may wel wexe | |||
| feble and fayle by vertu of baptesme / And by the grace | |||
| of god thurgh penytence / 267 But fully shal it neuer quenche | |||
| That he ne shal somtyme be meuyd in hym self / but yf | |||
| he were al refreyned by sykenes or by malice of sorcerye | |||
| or colde drynkes / . 268 For what saith seynt Poule / The | |||
| flesh coueyteth ayenst the spiryte / And the spiryt ayenst | |||
| the flesh they ben so contrary / And so stryuen that man | |||
| may not do alway as he wolde / 269 The same seynt Paule | |||
| after his grete penaunce in water and in londe by nyght | |||
| and by day by grete paryl and in grete peyne in londe in | |||
| grete famyn and thryst in colde and ones stoned al- | |||
| most to the deth / 270 Yet sayde he alas I caytyf man / who | |||
| shal delyuere me fro the pryson of my caytyf body / 271 And | |||
| Saint Iherome sayde / whan he long tyme had dwellid | |||
| in desert / Where as he had no companye but bestes where | |||
| as he had no mete but herbes and water to his drynk | |||
| ne no bed but the naked erthe / . For whyche is flesh | |||
| was blak as an Ethyope for hete and destroyed for | |||
| colde / 272 Yet said he the brennyng of lechery boylled in al | |||
| his body / 273 Wherfore I wote wel sikerly that they be dis | |||
| ceyuyd that say that they be not tempted in her sede | |||
| springyng / 687 As wel may the chorle be saued as the lord | |||
| 688 The same deth that the chorle taketh the lord taketh / . | |||
| Wherfore I rede do ryght so by thy chorle / as thou wol- | |||
| dest thy lord did wyth the yf thou were in his plight . | |||