THE SEVENTH BOUGH OF PRIDE.

The seventh bough of pride is foolish dread and foolish shame, when one

ceases to do well because of the world, that one be not held a hypocrite

or a canter, where one dreads the world more than God. The same shame

comes of sinful pleasing, by which one wishes to please the sinful. And

therefore chiefly is she daughter of pride and the seventh bough, and

often makes (men) cease to do the good and do the evil, in order

sinfully to please the world.

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