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< 343v Cx1: Folio 344r; The Parson's Tale 370-381 344v > Go to Cx2
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 to suche lordes that susteyne the wickednes of her seruauntis  
 But the comyn 370 pryde of the table apperith eke ful ofte For  
 certes riche men be cleped to festis and poure folk be put  
 awey and rebuked / 371 And ther is excesse of diuerce  
 metes and drynkes & namely of curyous maner of bakemetis  
 and of semblable wast so that it is abusion for to thynke  
 372 And eke in grete precyousnes of vessel and curiosite of  
 mynystralcye by the whiche a man is styred more to the de  
 lytes of luxurye / 373 yf so be that he sette his herte the lesse vpon  
 our lord Ihesu Crist certeyn it is a synne / And certes the  
 delycate metis and the delyte myght be so greet in the caas  
 that men myght the lightlyer falle by hem in to dedly synne  
 374 The spyces that sourden of pryde / sothly is whan they sourden  
 of malice ymagyned and auysed and forn cast or els of  
 vsage / ben dedely synnys it is no doubte / 375 And whan they  
 sourden by freelte vnauysed sodeinly / and sodenly wyth-  
 drawe agayn / al be they greuous synnys / I gesse & suppose  
 they be not dedly / 376 Now myght men axe wherof that pryde  
 sourdeth and spryngeth / And I saye that somtyme it  
 spryngeth of goodes of nature / And somtyme of the goo-  
 des of fortune / and som tyme of the goodes of grace / 377 Certes  
 the goodes of nature stonden in the goodes of body or of soule  
 378 Certes the goodes of the body ben hele of body / strengthe / de-  
 lyuernes / beaute / gentrye and fraunchises / 379 The goodis of  
 nature of the soule ben / good witte with sharp vnderston-  
 dyng / subtil engyn / vertu naturel / good memorye /380 Goodes  
 of fortune ben riches / high degrees of lordshippis & pre-  
 syng of the peple / 381 Goodes of grace ben science / power to suf-  
 fre spirytuel trauayll / benignytees / vertuous contemplacōn  
  

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 370
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 444
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 444

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 371
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 445
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 445

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 372
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 446
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 446

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 373
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 447
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 447

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 374
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 448
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 448

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 375
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 449
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 449

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 376
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 450
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 450

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 377
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 451
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 451

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 378
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 452
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 452

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 379
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 453
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 453

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 380
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 454
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 454

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 381
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 455
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 455