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| gostly is for to delyn with her gossibs / For right so as a | |||
| godfader is her fader spirytuel / For whiche a woman may | |||
| in no lesse synne semble with her gossib than with her 835 owen | |||
| brother . / 836 The fyfthe synne is that abhomynable synne of | |||
| whiche noman ought to speke of / ne wryte / natheles it is | |||
| openly rehercid in holy wryt / 837 Certes holy wryt may not | |||
| be defouled more than the sonne that shyneth on a donghill | |||
| 838 Another synne apperteyneth to lecherye that comyth in sle | |||
| pyng / and this synne cometh ofte to hem that ben may- | |||
| dens and eke to hem that ben corupt And this synne is | |||
| cleped pollucion / that cometh in foure maners Somtyme | |||
| it cometh of languysshyng of the body of man / 839 Somtyme | |||
| it cometh of Infirmyte for the feblenes of the vertu reten- | |||
| tyf as phesik maketh mencyon / Somtyme of surfete of | |||
| mete and drynke / and somtyme for violente thoughtis | |||
| that ben enclosid in mannys mynde whan he goth to slepe . | |||
| whiche may not be with oute synne / For whiche men muste | |||
| kepe hem wisely / or els may they synne greuously . 841 Now co | |||
| meth remedye ayenst lecherye / and that is generally chastite | |||
| and contynence that refreyneth alle disordinat meuyngis | |||
| that comyn of fleshly talentis / 842 And euer the gretter merite | |||
| shal he haue that refreyneth most the wicked chauffyng | |||
| or ordure of this synne . And this is in two maners / that | |||
| is to saye chastite of mariage and chastite of wedowhede . | |||
| 843 Now shalt thou vnderstande that Matrymony is leefful | |||
| assemblyng of man and woman that receyuen the vertue | |||
| of the sacrement / the bonde whiche that may not be departid | |||
| in al her lyf / this is to saye whylis they lyue bothe . 844 This | |||
| is as sayth the book a ful grete sacrement . God made it | |||