| | 754 In another maner ben distyncte the spyces of glotonye af | |
| | ter seynt Gregore / The first is for to ete byfore tyme / The | |
| | Second is whan a man getith hym to delicate mete / 755 The | |
| | thirde is whan men taken to mykil ouer mesure / The . iiij . | |
| | is curyosite with grete entente to maken and apparaylle | |
| | his mete / The fyfthe is for to ete gredily / 756 These ben the | |
| | fyue fyngers of the deuyllis honde by whiche he draweth folk to synne / | |
| | 757 Ayenst glotonye is the remedye Abstynence of his | |
| | body as saith Galyene / but that holde I not meritorye | |
| | yf he do it only for hele of his body / Seynt Austyn wole | |
| | that abstynence be do by vertu and with pacience / 758 Absti- | |
| | nence he saith is litil worth / but yf he haue good will / and | |
| | but he be enforcyd by pacyence and by charyte / and that | |
| | men do it for godis sake / and in hope to haue the blisse in | |
| | heuene / 759 The felaws of abstinence ben attemperance that hol | |
| | deth the mene in alle thingis eke shame that escheweth al | |
| | dishoneste suffisance that sekith no riche metis ne drynkis | |
| | ne doth no force of none outrageous appareyllyng of mete | |
| | 760 Also that restreyneth by reson the delauye appetyte of etyng | |
| | and drynkyng / Sobrenes also that restreyneth the out- | |
| | rage of drynke / Sparyng also that restreyneth the delicat | |
| | ease to sitte longe at his mete / wherfore some folk stonden | |
| | of her owen will whan they ete be cause they wil ete at lasse | |
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| | ¶ .Sequitur de Luxuria . | |
| 762 | A | Fter glotonye thenne comyth lecherye / For thyse two | |
| | synnys ben so nyghe cosyns that ofte tyme they wyl | |
| | not departe / 763 God woot this synne is ful displaysaunt to | |
| | god / For he sayde hym self do no lecherye / And therfore | |
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