Afterwards comes slackness, which comes of want of heart, and of evil
habit, which so binds the man that with difficulty he gives himself to
well-doing. Sometimes it comes of ignorance and of foolish heat, whereby
the man so starves his heart and his body by fasts and by vigils and by
other deeds, that he falls into feebleness and into such sickness that
he cannot labour in God’s service, and perishes in the slackness because
he has neither taste nor devotion for well-doing. Afterwards comes
weariness, which makes the man become weary and worse from day to day,
until he is quite defeated and overcome with weariness. And this is the
sixth vice of the evil servant, that he fails ere he come to the end or
to his term, and one can say, whoever serves and serves not fully, he
loses his reward.