| | god of heuyn / Another is whan he despiseth none other man | |
| | 406 The thirde is / that he reckith not though men holde hym | |
| | nought / The fourthe is whan he is not sory of his humilia | |
| | cion / 407 Also the humyliacion of mouth is in foure thinges . | |
| | In attemperat speche / And whan he knoweth with his | |
| | owen mouth that he is suche as he thinketh that he is in his | |
| | herte / Another whan he preiseth the debonairte of another mā | |
| | And also nothyng therof amenusith / 408 Humylite eke in | |
| | werkis is in foure maners / The first is whan he put men | |
| | before hym / The seconde is to chese the lowest place / The . iij . | |
| | is gladly to assente to good counceyl / 409 The . iiij . is gladly | |
| | to stonde in obedience of his souereyn or of hym that is hi- | |
| | gher in degre / Certes that is a grete werk of humylite . | |
| | ¶ Sequitur de Inuidia . | |
| 410 | A | Fter pryde wil I speke of the foule synne of enuye . whiche that is as by the worde of the philosophre sorow | |
| | of other mennys prouffit / And after the word of seynt | |
| | Austyn it is sorow of other mens wele and Ioye of other | |
| | mennys harm / 411 This foule synne is platly ayenst the holy | |
| | gost / Al be it so that euery synne is ayenst the holy gost . | |
| | Yet for as muche as bounte apperteyneth to the holy gost | |
| | properly / And enuye cometh properly of malice / Therfore | |
| | it is properly ayenst the bounte of the holy gost / 412 Now hath | |
| | malyce two spices that is to saye hardynes of herte and | |
| | wickednes / or ellis the flesh of man is so blynde that he | |
| | consyderyth not that he is in synne / whyche is the har- | |
| | dynes of the deuyl / 413 That other spyce of enuye is whan a | |
| | man warrith ayenst trouthe whan that he woot that it is | |
| | trouth / And eke whan that he warrith the grace that god | |
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