The church is not a hare; it will wait for me." When she has with some difficulty risen, do you know what her hours are?
Her matins are: "Ha! what shall we have to drink?
is there nothing left over from last night ?" Afterwards she says her lauds thus: "Ha! we drank good wine yesterday." Afterwards she says thus her orisons: "My head aches, I shan't be comfortable until I have had a drink." Certes, such gluttony putteth a woman to shame, for from it she becomes a ribald, a disreputable person and a thief.

The tavern is the Devil's church, where his disciples go to do him service and where he works his miracles.

For when folk go there they go upright and well spoken, wise and sensible and well advised, and when they return they cannot hold themselves upright nor speak; they are all foolish and all mad, and they return swearing, beating and giving the lie to each other.'-- _Op.

cit_., I, pp.
47-8.

The section on Avarice is particularly valuable for its picture of the sins of executors of wills, rack-renting lords, extortionate shopkeepers, false lawyers, usurers, and gamblers .-- See _ibid_., I, pp.