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A30887 The Shepheards kalender newly augmented and corrected.; Compost et kalendrier des bergiers. Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552.; Copland, Robert, fl. 1508-1547. 1656 (1656) Wing B713; ESTC R16875 141,038 199

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here in this world Here endeth Sloth and followeth the History of Covetise FIftly said Lazarus I have seen in the infernall parts a great number of wide cauldrons and kettles full of boyling lead and Oyle with other hot metals molten in the which were plunged and dipped the covetous men and women for to fulfill and replenish them of their insatiate covetise The Covetous Men and Women COvetise is a great sin and wicked in the sight of God For the covetous man imagineth more to get a peny than the love of God and had rather lose God than one half penny for oftentimes for a little thing he lieth and forsweareth himself and sinneth deadly The faith hope and charity that should be in God the covetous man putteth in his riches First faith for he beleeveth to have such things the which be necessary for him sooner for his goods than by the gift of God as if that God might not help him or as if that God had no solicitude of his servants Also the covetous man hath hope to have the more ioy and consolations by his riches than God may give them And a●so the covetous man setteth all his heart on his goods and not on God and thus the Covetous man and woman have their charity in their rich chests coffers and bags The covetous man hath his heart more on his goods than on God there as is the heart there is their love and love is charity and so covetous men have their hearts on their goods The Covetous man sinneth gathering his goods and in using it evill and in loving it overmuch and sometimes better than he doth God the covetous man is taken in the net of the devil by the which he looseth everlasting life for small temporall goods as the bird doth go into the pitfall for a worm and loseth his life and as the mouse is taken in a fall or trap and loseth his life for a little bakon The covetous men and women bee like curs or dogs the which do keep cartion and when their bellies be full they lye down by it and keep away the birds that they may not eat but dieth for hunger for fault that the curres have too much In like wise the covetous men with-hold the goods that poor men may get none and letteth them dye for hunger and holdeth them in their subiection and the devill holdeth the rich men in his subiection that doth the poor men wrong Thus endeth the pain for the Covetous men Here followeth the vi pain of Hell THe vi pain said Lazarus that I have seen in Hel is in a vale a floud foul and stinking at the brim in which was a table with towels right dishonestly whereas gluttons be fed with toades and other venemous beasts and had to drink of the water of the said floud THe throat is the gate of the body of man so when enemies will take the castle if they may win the gate they will lightly have all the castle So when the devill may win the throat of a man by gluttony easily he will have the re●nant and enter into the body accompanied of sins for the gluttons consent unto al vices And for this cause it were necessary to have a good guard at the gate that the devil enter not For whē one holdeth a horse by the bridle he may lead him where he will so doth the devill the gluttenous man where him list The servant that is over easily nourished rebelleth oft against his master the belly over filled with meat drink is rebell to the soul so that it wil do no good operations By gluttony many be dead which might have lived longer so they have bin homicides of themselves for excess of too much eating and drinking corrupteth the bodies and engendereth sicknesses the which often abridgeth and shortneth the lives And they that nourish well the flesh prepare meats for worms and so the glutton is cook of worms A man of worship would be ashamed for to be a cook of a great Lord more ashamed should he be to be a cook for worms They that live after the desire of the flesh live after the rule of the Swine in eating without measure like an unreasonable beast This is the hogge as it were an Abbot over gluttonous people of whom they hold their order and regule whereby they bee constrained to keep them in their cloister that is in the Tavern and Ale-houses And like wise as the hog their Abbot lyeth in a rotten dunghill or in the miry puddle so do they alwaies lie in the stinking infection of gluttony till they be drunken and without wit The vii pain said Lazarus I have seen a field ful of deep wells replenished with fire and sulphur whereout issued smoak thick and contagious wherein all lecherous persons were tormented incessantly with devils OF all the vii deadly sinnes Letchery pleaseth most unto the Devill for it filleth and corrupteth both the body and the soul together and by Letchery the Devil winneth two souls at once and many letcherous persons wil avant themselves and say that they may not have their full desire and lust of that sinne Letcherous men and women bee more deformed and ougly than the devill in the superaboundance of that sinne He is a foolish marchant that makes a bargain of the which hee knoweth right well that hee shall lose thereby and repent him of his bargain again In like manner of wise each Letcherous man hath great pain and spendeth his goods and his understanding to fulfil and accomplish his lusts delights and after repenteth him of his expence and yet the worst is he is in daunger of his soul till he be repentant and do sufficient penance The letcherous men and women living bee tormented with three infernall pains as heat stink and remorse of their Conscience For they be hot by concupiscence they be stinking by their immundicity for such sinne is all stinking and maculateth the body and soul where all other sinnes file but the soul. Also they be not without remorse of conscience for the offence they have done to God Letchery is the pit of the devill wherein he maketh sinners to fall to the which many helpeth the devil to cast themselves in it when willingly they go to the brimme knowing that the devill will cast them in good it is not to hearken to women better it is not to behold them and much better it is not to touch them To this sinne belongeth foul words villain songs dishonest touchings the which abhorreth not bawds harlots whores and such as frequenteth and persevereth in the same Thus endeth the seven deadly sinnes figured each by himself like as Lazarus had seen in the parts infernall CHAP. IX Hereafter followeth the third part of the Kalender and Compost of Shepheards salutary Science and Garden of vertues WHo that will have on a peece of earth great abundance of fruit first they ought to take away all things that