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| be holden to laboure in prayng to god for amendement of | |||
| her synnys / 610 Another estate is in the estate of grace / In | |||
| whiche estate is he holden to do werkis of penytence / And | |||
| certes to alle these thingis is accidye enemye and contrary | |||
| for he loueth no besynes at all / 611 Now certes this foule synne | |||
| of accidye is eke a ful gret enemy to þe liuelod of the body For | |||
| it hath no purueance ayenst temporel necessite / For it is | |||
| slouthyd and forsloggid and destroyeth al goodes tem | |||
| porel by rechelisnes / 612 The fourth thyng is that accidye is | |||
| lyke hem that ben in the peyne of helle be cause of slouthe & | |||
| of her heuynes / For they that be dampned be so bounde that | |||
| neyther may they doo wel ne thynke wel / 613 Of accidye cometh | |||
| first that a man is anoyd & encombrid to doo ony goodnes | |||
| and maketh that god hath abhominacion of suche accidye | |||
| as saith seynt Iohn 614 Now cometh slouthe that wil suffre | |||
| no hardnes ne no penance / For soth slouth is so delicate | |||
| and so tendre as saith Salamon that he wil suffre non | |||
| hardnes ne penance and therfore he shendeth al that he doth | |||
| 615 Ayenst this rotyn horyd synne of accidye or slouthe shold | |||
| men excercyse hem to doo good werkis and manly and | |||
| vertuously cacchen corage wel to doo / Thynkyng that our | |||
| lord Ihesu Crist quytith euery good dede be it neuer so litil | |||
| 616 Vsage of it is a grete thinge / For it makyth as sayth | |||
| seynt Bernard the laborer to haue stronge armys and | |||
| hard synewis / and slouth makith hem feble and tendre | |||
| 617 Than comyth drede for to begynne to werke ony good wer | |||
| kis / For certes he that is inclined to synne hym thinketh | |||
| it is to grete an empryse for to vndertake to doo werkis of | |||
| goodnes 618 as saith seynt Gregore / 619 Now comyth wanhope | |||