by Thomas Austin (E.E.T.S., 1888).
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These long moral treatises on the seven deadly sins and the even deadlier virtues were very popular in the Middle Ages.

The best known to English readers occurs in the _Parson's Tale_ in Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales,_ and is taken from the _Somme de Vices et de Vertus_ of Frere Lorens, a thirteenth-century author.