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| 894 For they that eggyn or consenten to the synne ben parte- | |||
| ners to the synne and of the dampnacion of the synnar . | |||
| 895 The fyfthe is how many tymes that he hath synned and | |||
| it be in his mynde / and how ofte he hath falle / 896 For he that | |||
| ofte fallyth in synne he dispyseth the mercy of god and | |||
| encrecyth his synne / And is vnkynde to god / And he | |||
| wexith the more feble to wistonde synne / and synneth the | |||
| more lightly / 897 and the latter aryseth / and the more eschueth | |||
| forto shryue hym / and namely to hym that hath ben his | |||
| confessour . 898 For whiche that folk whan they falle ayen in | |||
| her olde folyes they forletyn her olde confessours al vtterly | |||
| Or ellis they departen her shryfte in diuerse places / But | |||
| sothly suche departyd shryfte deseruyth no mercy of god | |||
| for his synnys / 899 The sixthe circumstaunce is this why that | |||
| a man synneth / as by what temptacion / and of hym self | |||
| procure thilke temptacion / or by excytyng of other folk / or | |||
| yf thou synne with a woman by force / or by her owen assent | |||
| 900 Or yf the woman magre her heed haue be enforced or not . | |||
| and whethir for couetyse or pouerte / Alle this shalt thou | |||
| telle / And yf it was her procuryng or no and alle suche | |||
| maner thingis / 901 The seuenth circumstaunce is in what ma | |||
| ner he hath don his synne / or how that she hath suffrid how | |||
| folk haue don to her / 902 and of the same shal the man telle | |||
| alle the circumstauncis / And yf that he haue synned with | |||
| comyn bordel women or none / 903 in fastyng tymes or none . | |||
| or don his synne in holy tymes or none / or beforn his shrifte | |||
| Or after his latter shrifte / 904 and hath perauenture therfore | |||
| broken his penaunce enioyned / by whos help and whos | |||
| counceyll / by sorcery or craft / al muste be told 905 thyse thingis | |||