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665 AFter accidye now wil I speke of auaryce and of co  
 uetyse of whiche synne saith seynt Poule / The rote  
 of alle synne is couetyse . 666 For sothly whan the herte of a  
 man is confounded in hit self and troblid and that the  
 soule hath lost the comfort of god . Thenne seketh he an  
 ydle solas of worldly thingis / 667 Auaryce after descripcion of  
 seynt Austyn is a lichorousnes in herte to haue erthely thin  
 gis / 668 Some other folke saye that auaryce is for to purchace  
 many erthly thyngis / and nothyng yeue to hem that haue  
 nede / 669 And vnderstande wel that auaryce is not oonly in  
 good & in catel / but sumtyme in science & in glorye & in euery  
 outrageous thingis is auarice & couetyse / 670 And the diffe-  
 rence bitwene auarice and couetyse is this / Couetyse is for  
 to coueyte suche thingis as thou hast not / 671 and auarice is to  
 witholde & to kepe suche thingis as thou hast withoute right  
 ful nede / Sothly this auaryce is a synne ful dampnable  
 for al holy wryt cursith hit & speketh ayenst hit for it doth  
 wrong to Ihesu Crist . 672 For hit bereuyth fro hym the loue  
 that men to hym owen and torneth hit bacward ayenst al  
 reson 673 and makyth that the auarous man hath more hope  
 in his catel than in Ihesu Crist . 674 And therfore saith seynt  
 Paule / that an auarous man hath more hope in his thral-  
 dom of ydolatrye than in god / 675 What difference is betwix  
 an ydolastre & an auarycious man / perauenture an ydolastre  
 hath but on mawmet or two / And the auaricious man hath  
 many For certes euery floreyn in his cofre is his mawmet .  
 676 And certes the synne of mawmetrie god forbedeth in þe ten  
 co mandemts as bereth witnes / Exo . xx co . 677 Thou shalt haue no  
 false goddis biforn me ne þu shalt make to þe no grauid thing  
  

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 665
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 739
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 739

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 666
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 740
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 740

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 667
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 741
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 741

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 668
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 742
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 742

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 669
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 743
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 743

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 670
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 744
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 744

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 671
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 745
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 745

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 672
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 746
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 746

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 673
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 747
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 747

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 674
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 748
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 748

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 675
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 749
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 749

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 676
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 750
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 750

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 677
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 751
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 751