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| retorneth agayn to his owen neste / 547 And ouer alle thing | |||
| men ought teschewe to curse her children and to yeue to the | |||
| deuyl her engendrure as ferforth as in hem is / Certis it is | |||
| a grete paryl and a grete synne / 548 Lete vs thenne speke of | |||
| chydyng and repreuyng whyche ben grete woundis in | |||
| mannys herte / 549 for certes vnnethe may a man be plainly ac | |||
| corded with hym that he hath openly reuylyd / reprouyd | |||
| and disclaundrid this is a ful grisly synne / as Crist saith | |||
| in the gospel / 550 And take ye kepe now that he that reprouith | |||
| his neyghbour by som harme or by some peyne that he hath | |||
| in his body / as mesil / croked harlote / or by sum signe that | |||
| he doth / Now yf he repreuyth hym by harm of peyne / 551 thenne | |||
| retorneth the repref to Ihesu Crist / For peyne is sent by | |||
| the ryghtwys sonde of god and by his suffraunce / be it | |||
| meselerye or mayme or maladye / 552 And yf he repreue hym | |||
| vncharitably of synne / thou holour / thou dronkelew harlot | |||
| and so forth thenne apperteyneth it to reioysyng of the | |||
| deuyl that euer hath ioye that men don synne / 553 And certes | |||
| chydyng may not come but of vilens herte / For after ha- | |||
| boundaunce of the herte speketh the mouth ful ofte / 554 And | |||
| ye shul vnderstande ony whan man chastiseth another that | |||
| he be waar fro chidyng or repreuyng / For trewly but he | |||
| be waar he may ful lightly quycken the fyre of anger and | |||
| of wrath whiche that he shal not quenche / and perauenture | |||
| sleeth hym that he myght chastyse with benignyte . 555 For as | |||
| saith Salamon / The amyable tonge is the tre of lyf / that | |||
| is to saye of lyf spirytuel / And a dislaue tonge sleeth | |||
| the spirytis of hym that is reprouyd / 556 Lo what saith seynt | |||
| Austyn / Ther is no thyng like the deuyllis childe as he | |||