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 the Roser / or by other benchis yf he may not pysse yet wil he  
 heue vp his legge and make countenaunce to pysse / 785 And  
 for that man wenyth that he may not synne for lichorousnes  
 that he doth with his wyf / Certes that oppynyon is fals  
 God woot a man may sle hym silf with his owen knyff  
 and make hym dronke with his owen tonne / 786 Certes be it  
 wyf or chylde or worldly thing that he louith before god .  
 it is his mawmet / and he is an ydolastre / 787 Man shold loue  
 his wyf by discrecion paciently and attemperatly / And  
 than is she as though she were his suster / 788 The fyfte fynger  
 of the deuyllis hond is the stynkyng dede of lecherye / He  
 789 grypeth hym by the reynes for to throwe hym in to the fur-  
 neys of helle / 790 there as they shal haue the fyre and the wor-  
 mys that euer shal lasten / wepyng and wayling / sharp  
 hunger and thirst Grislynes of deuillis that shulle al to  
 trede hym withoute respite and withouten ende / 791 Of lecherye  
 as I sayde sourden diuerce spyces as fornicacion that is be-  
 twix man and woman that ben not maryed and this is  
 dedely synne and ayenst nature / 792 And destruction to nature  
 is ayenst nature / 793 Perfay the reson tellith hym eke that it is  
 dedely synne for as muche as god forbad lecherye / And seynt  
 Poule yeuyth hym the regne that is due to no wight / but to  
 hem that do no dedely synne / 794 Another synne of lecherye is to  
 bereuen a mayde of her maydenhede / For certes he that so doth  
 he cacchyth a mayde out of the hyest degre that is in thys  
 present lyf / 795 And bereueth her that precyous fruyt that the  
 book clepeth the hundred fruyt / I can say it none other wyse  
 in englissh / but in latyn it hight centesimus fructus / 796 Certes  
 he that so doth is cause of many domages and vilonyes mo  
  

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 785
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 859
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 859

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 786
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 860
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 860

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 787
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 861
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 861

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 788
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 862
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 862

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 789
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 863
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 863

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 790
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 864
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 864

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 791
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 865
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 865

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 792
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 866
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 866

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 793
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 867
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 867

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 794
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 868
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 868

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 795
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 869
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 869

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 796
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 870
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 870