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| Withstandyng of temptacion and semblable thynges . | |||
| 382 Of whiche forsaid goodes certes it is a grete foly a man | |||
| to pryden hym in ony of hem alle / 383 Now as for to speke of | |||
| goodes of nature god wote that som tyme we haue them | |||
| in nature as muche to our damage as to our prouffyt / . | |||
| 384 As for to speke of hele of body certes it passith ful lightly | |||
| And eke it is ful ofte thencheson of the sikenes of the sowle | |||
| For god wote the flesh is a ful grete enemy to the soule . | |||
| And therefore the more that a body is hool / the more be we in | |||
| peryl to falle / 385 Eke for to pryde hym in his strenghte of body | |||
| it is a grete folye / For certes the flesh coueyteth ayenst the | |||
| spiryte / And euer the more stronger the flesh is / the soryer | |||
| may the soule be / 386 And ouer al this strength of the body | |||
| and wordly hardynes causeth ful ofte many men to perylle | |||
| and myschance . 387 Eke for to pryde hym of his genterye / it is | |||
| ful grete folye . For ofte tyme the genterye of the body begyn | |||
| neth of the gentrye of the sowle / And eke we be alle of one | |||
| fader & of one moder / And alle we ben of one nature rotyn | |||
| and corupt bothe Riche and poure / 388 For sothe a maner gen- | |||
| trye is for to preyse that apparaylleth mannes corage with | |||
| vertues or moralytees and makith hym a Cristen child . | |||
| 389 For trusteth wel that what man that synne hath ouer mais | |||
| tryd is very chorle to synne / 390 Now ben ther thre general | |||
| thynges of gentilnes as eschewyng of vicys or rybaudrye | |||
| And seruage of synne in word and werk in contenance | |||
| 391 And vsyng vertu as courtesye / clennesse and to be liberal | |||
| that is to saye large by mesure . For that that passith mesure | |||
| is folye and synne / 392 Another is that he remembre hym of | |||
| the bounte that he of other folk hath resseyuyd / 393 Another | |||