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| 487 Certes this Ire or wrath bynymeth eke goddis due lord- | |||
| ship and that is mans soule and the loue of his neygh- | |||
| bours / hit stryueth alway eke ayenst trouthe / hit reueth | |||
| hym the quyete of his herte and subuertith his sowle / 488 Of | |||
| yre comyn thyse stynkyng engendruris / First hate that is | |||
| olde wrath renewid / thurgh whiche a man forsaketh his | |||
| owen frende that he hath louyd so longe / 489 And thenne co- | |||
| myth werre and euery maner of wrong that a man doth | |||
| to his neyghebour in body or in Catel / 490 Of this cursid synne | |||
| of Ire cometh eke manslaghter / And vnderstandeth wel | |||
| that manslaghter is in dyuerse wyse / Some maner of | |||
| manslaughter is spirytuel / And some bodely / 491 Spirytuel | |||
| manslaghter is in sixe thingis . / First by hate as saith s | |||
| eynt Iohn / he that hateth his broder is an homicyde / | |||
| 492 Man-slaghter is eke by bacbytyng of whiche bacbitours saith | |||
| Salamon that they haue two swerdis wyth whyche they | |||
| sle her neyghbours / For sothly as wickid it is to benyme | |||
| his good name as his lyf / 493 homicyde is eke in yeuyng of | |||
| wickyd counceyl by fraude / or for to yeue counceyl for to | |||
| areyse wrongful customs and talagis 494 of whiche speketh | |||
| Salamon / Lyon roryng and bere hungry ben likenyd | |||
| to cruel lordis / in withholdyng or abreggyng of the hyre | |||
| or wagis of poure folk / 495 For whiche the wyseman saith . / | |||
| Fede ye hym that almoste deyeth for hunger / For sothly | |||
| but if thou fede hym thou sleest hym / And al these ben | |||
| dedely synnys / 496 Bodely manslaughter is whan thou sleest | |||
| hym with thy tunge / Another maner is whan thou coman | |||
| dest to sle a man / or ellis yeuyst hym counceyl to sle a man | |||
| 497 Manslaughter in dede is in foure maners / That one is by | |||