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| ship is dreynt / 291 Right so farith it somtyme of dedly synne | |||
| & of anoyous venyal synnys whan they multeplye in man | |||
| so gretly that the worldly thynges that he loueth thurgh | |||
| whiche he synneth venyally is as grete in his herte as the | |||
| loue of god or more / 292 And therfore the loue of euery thinge | |||
| that is not beset ne don princypally for goddes sake / all | |||
| though a man loueth lasse than god / yet is it venyal synne | |||
| 293 And dedely synne is whan the loue of ony thing weyeth | |||
| in the herte of man as muche as the loue of god or more . | |||
| 294 Dedely synne as saith saint Austyn is whan a man tor- | |||
| neth his herte from god whyche that is veray souerayn | |||
| bounte that may not be chaunged / And yeueth his herte | |||
| to a thyng that may chaunge and flytte / 295 And certes | |||
| that is euery thing saue god of heuen / Forsoth yf that a | |||
| man yeue his loue whiche he oweth to god with all his | |||
| herte vnto a Creature certes so muche of loue as he yeueth | |||
| to suche a Creature / so muche bereueth he fro god / 296 And | |||
| therfore doth he synne For he that is dettour to god ne yel- | |||
| deth not al his dette to god that is to saye al the loue of | |||
| his herte / 297 Now sith a man vnderstondeth generally whiche | |||
| is venyal synne / than is it couenable to telle specyally of | |||
| synnes whiche that many a man perauenture demeth hem | |||
| not synnys and shryueth hem not of the same synnes . | |||
| And yet natheles they be synnes . 298 And sothly as cler- | |||
| kis wryten this is to saye that euery tyme that a man | |||
| eteth or drynketh more than suffyseth to sustenaunce of | |||
| his body certayn he doth synne / . 299 Eke whan he herke- | |||
| neth not the compleynt of the poure men / . Eke whan | |||
| he speketh more than hyt nedeth it is synne . / | |||