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| or go to offryng beforn his neyghbour 334 and suche a proud | |||
| desire to be magnified and honoured beforn the peple / 335 Now | |||
| ben ther two maners of pryde that one of hem is within the | |||
| herte of man / And that other is withoute / 336 Of whiche | |||
| forsaid thinges and moo than I haue said apperteynen to | |||
| the pryde that is within the herte of man / And ther be also | |||
| other spices of pride that be withouten . 337 But natheles one of | |||
| thyse spices of pride is signe of that other / Right as the gay | |||
| leffel of tauernes is signe of the wyn that is in the seler / 338 and | |||
| this is in many thinges as in speche in contenance in outra | |||
| geousnes / of aray of clotyng339 Crist wold not so sone haue | |||
| noted and spoken of the clothing of that riche man in the | |||
| gospel but yf hit had be synne / . 340 For as saith seynt Gre- | |||
| gore / Precyous clothing is culpable for the derthe of hit | |||
| and for his strangenes / for his disguysynges and for | |||
| the superfluyte / or for the inordynate scantnes / 342 As to the | |||
| first synne that is in superfluyte of clothing / Whiche that | |||
| maketh it so dere to harm of the peple 343 that only the cost of | |||
| the enbrowding / the disgysing endentyng / or barryng / | |||
| oundyng / palyng and semblable wyse of clothing in | |||
| vanyte 344 Ther is also costlew furryng in gownes / And | |||
| also mykyl pounsyng of chesell to make hoolis so mykyl | |||
| daggyng of sherys 345 with the superfluyte in lenghte of the | |||
| forsayd gownys traylyng in the dong and in the myre | |||
| on hors and eke on foot as wel of man as of woman . | |||
| that al that traylyng is verily as in effect wasted / consu | |||
| med / thredbare & roten with dong rather than it is yeuen | |||
| to the poure / to grete domage of the forsaid poure folk 346 and | |||
| that in sondry wyse / this is to sayn the more that cloth | |||