Which every mannes conscience

Be resoun scholde reule and kepe,

If that thee list to taken kepe,

P. ii. 38

I wol thee telle, aboven alle

In whom no vertu mai befalle, 1080

Which yifth unto the vices reste

And is of slowe the sloweste.[1191]

[v. Idleness.]

v. Absque labore vagus vir inutilis ocia plectens,