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| with entent to disceyue his euen Cristen / 535 Som lesing ther | |||
| is of whiche cometh none auauntage to no wight / And | |||
| som lesing torneth to the ese and prouffit of a man and to | |||
| domage of another man / 536 Another lesing for to saue his lif | |||
| or catel / Another lesing comyth of delyte / They wil forge | |||
| a long tale and peynte it with al circumstancis wherof | |||
| alle the ground is fals / 537 Some lesing comyth for he wil | |||
| susteyne his word / And some lesing comyth of rechelis- | |||
| nes withouten auysement and semblable thingis 538 Lete vs | |||
| now towche the vice of flaterye / whiche comyth not gladly | |||
| but for drede or for couetyse . 539 Flaterye is generally wrong- | |||
| ful praysing / Flaterers ben the deuillis norices that norissh | |||
| his children with the mylk of losengery / 540 For soth saith | |||
| Salamon that flaterye is worse than detraction . For som- | |||
| tyme detraction makith an haunteyn man be the more hum | |||
| ble for he dredeth detraction / But certayn flaterye maketh | |||
| a man to enhaunce his herte & his contenaunce / 541 Flaterers | |||
| ben the deuilles enchantours for they maken a man to wenyn | |||
| hym self be like / that he is not like / 542 They be like Iudas that | |||
| betraid god / And thyse flaterers betraye a man to selle | |||
| hym to his enemy that is the deuil / 543 Flaterers ben the deiullis | |||
| chapelleyns that syngen euer placebo / 544 I rekene flaterye in | |||
| vicis of yre / For ofte tyme yf a man be wroth with another | |||
| Thenne wil he flatere som wight to sustene him in his qua- | |||
| rell / 545 Speke we now of suche cursing as comith out of yrous | |||
| hertes / Malison may be said generally euery maner power | |||
| of harm / suche cursyng bereueth a man the regne of god | |||
| As saith seynt Paule / 546 And ofte suche cursyng wrong- | |||
| fully retorneth ayen to hym that cursyth / As a bird | |||