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| Pope clepeth hym self seruant of seruauntes of god / But | |||
| for as muche as the state of holy chirche might not be kept | |||
| in reste ne in pees in erthe / but yf god had ordeyned that | |||
| som men haue heyer degre / and som men lower / 700 Therfore was | |||
| souereynte ordeyned to kepe and maintene and defende her | |||
| vnderlyngis or her subiettes in reson as ferforth as it lieth | |||
| in her power / and not to destroye hem ne confounde / 701 Wher- | |||
| fore I say thilke lordes ben woluys that deuouren the | |||
| possessions or the catel of other folk wrongfully withoute | |||
| mercy or mesure / 702 They shul be releuyd by the same mesure | |||
| that they haue mesured to poure folk for the mercy of Ihesu | |||
| Crist but they it amende / 276 Now shul ye vnderstande in what | |||
| maner synne weyith and encresith in man / The first thing | |||
| is that norisshyng of synne of whiche I spak bifore that is | |||
| concupiscence / 277 And after that cometh suggestion of the de- | |||
| uyl / that is to saye the deuyllis belowe / with whiche he blo- | |||
| with in man the fyre of concupiscence / 278 And after that a | |||
| man bethinketh hym whether he wol do or no that thing to | |||
| whiche he is tempted / 279 And than yf that a man wyth- | |||
| stont and weyue the first tysyng of his flesh and of the | |||
| fende / than it is no synne / and yf so be he do not than feleth | |||
| he anone a flame of delite / 280 And than it is good to bewaar | |||
| and to kepe hym wel or ellis he wol falle anon in to consen | |||
| tyng of synne / And than wil he do hit yf he may haue tyme | |||
| and space / 281 And of this mater saith Moyses by the deuyl | |||
| in this maner / The fende saith I wil chace & poursiewe the | |||
| mā by wickid suggestion / and I wil honte him by meuyng | |||
| or stering of synne / and I wil deprarte my pryse or my pray | |||
| by deliberacion / and my lust shal be accomplissed in delyte . | |||