=Remedium contra peccatum Gule.=
§ 72. Agayns Glotonye is the remedie Abstinence, as seith Galien; but that
holde I nat meritorie, if he do it only for the hele of his body. Seint
Augustin wole, that Abstinence be doon for vertu and with pacience. /
Abstinence, he seith, is litel worth, but if a man have good wil ther-to,
and but it be enforced by pacience and by charitee, and that men doon it
for godes sake, and in hope to have the blisse of hevene. /
§ 73. The felawes of Abstinence been Attemperaunce, that holdeth the mene
in alle thinges: eek Shame, that eschueth alle deshonestee: Suffisance,
that seketh no riche metes ne drinkes, ne dooth no fors of to outrageous
apparailinge of mete. / Mesure also, that restreyneth by resoun the
deslavee appetyt of etinge: [625] Sobrenesse also, that restreyneth the
outrage of drinke: / Sparinge also, that restreyneth the delicat ese to
sitte longe at his mete and softely; wherfore som folk stonden of hir owene
wil, to eten at the lasse leyser. /835