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Of the synne of Glotony.
The syxte synne then is Glotony.A trewe promyter vnto Lechery.
And bycause the synne of glotony.
Is in experyence nowe dayly
Of it I wyll but a lytell spell.
For of it many man can tell.
The vse is nowe in cyte and dale.
Unreasonably to drynke wyne and ale
With hey howe fyll the pot by the eye
And this is called euery good company.
And to make of other as they arne.
Of goddes chyldren the deuyls barne
Haste thou fasted as thou sholdest do
Dayes that thou were Ioyned vnto
Haste thou broken ony fastynge daye.
If thou haue thou must it saye
Haste thou also for Glotony
Etynge or drynkynge to fyersly.
Haste thou eten or dronken more
Outher to erely or to late
Outher to swete or to delycate
And what tyme thou haste come to bed.
Full gedy and peuysshe hathe ben thy hed.
And many dayes after syke and ydell
Not able to serue god ne the worldell
If thou haue done this.
Shryue the sone for nede it is
Haste thou cherysshed thy body ofte.
In swete metes and clothes softe
Arte thou wonte to go to the nale
There to fyll thy foule male
And to drawe other with the
To bere the company in that degre.
And a gloton knewe whan he had ynough
Welth it were to his soule & ease the plough.
And cause corne to be better chepe
For they drynke whan other men slepe
Haste thou eten on the sondaye.
Without holy brede ye or naye
And ben ony tyme in company
Of cursed men tell me why
To socoure them with bodely fode.
Or to teche them for theyr gode
He that socoureth them in theyr malyce
Is accursed as they ben ywys.
More I sholde reherse but I leue it behynde
I wyll wryte it in verse/bere it in mynde
Quinque modis per gulam peccathomo
Certū stat quoth .v. modis gula dānate dante:
Dūnimiū comedit comedediperuen it horā
Ouerat delicias parat escas deliciose
Aut sumit auide quod non erat deliciosum
If thou haue ony more nowe in thy herte
Shewe it good sone breuely and smerte.
And be thou chylde wyfe or mon
I wyll gyue the thyne absolucyon.
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