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| For it dryeth hym / and of his blood he maketh sacrifyce | |||
| to the fende of helle / hit wasteth his catel & his substance | |||
| 775 And certes yf it be a foule thing a man to waste his ca | |||
| tel on women / yet is hit a fouler thing that whan for suche | |||
| ordure women spenden vpon men her catel and substance | |||
| 776 This synne as saith the prophete byreuyth a man and a | |||
| woman her good fame and al her honour / and it is ful | |||
| playsant to the deuyl / For therby wynneth he the most party | |||
| of this world / 777 And right as a marchant deliteth hym | |||
| most in chaffare that he hath most auauntage of / right so | |||
| deliteth the fende in this ordure / 778 This is that other hand | |||
| of the deuyl with fyue fyngers to cacche the peple to this vi | |||
| lony / 779 The first fynger is the foule lokyng of the fool wo- | |||
| man that sleeth right as the basilicok sleeth folk by the ve- | |||
| nym of his sight / For couetyse of the eyen foloweth the co- | |||
| uetyse of the herte / 780 The second fynger is the vilayns tou- | |||
| chyng in wickid maner / And therfore saith Salamon | |||
| That who so touchith and handelith a woman / he farith | |||
| lyke hym that handelyth the scorpion that styngyth and | |||
| sodeinly sleeth thurgh his enuemynyng or as who so tou- | |||
| chyth pycche he shendeth his fyngris / 781 The thirde is foule | |||
| wordes that farith lyke fyre that brennyth that right anon | |||
| brennyth the herte / 782 The fourthe is kyssing And trewly | |||
| he were a grete fole that wold kysse the mouth of a bren- | |||
| nyng ouyn or of a furneys / 783 And more foolis ben they | |||
| that kyssen in vilony / For that mouth is the mouth of | |||
| helle / And namely thyse olde dotardis holours yet wil they | |||
| kysse though they may not doo and smater hem / 784 Certes | |||
| they be lyke to houndis / For an hound whan he cometh by | |||