O gluttony, full of all cursedness; O cause first of our confusión, Original of our damnatión, Till Christ had bought us with his blood again! Lookë, how dearë, shortly for to sayn, Abought 3557 was first this cursed villainy: Corrupt was all this world for gluttony. Adam our father, and his wife also, From Paradise, to labour and to woe, Were driven for that vice, it is no dread. 3558 For while that Adam fasted, as I read, He was in Paradise; and when that he Ate of the fruit defended 3559 of the tree, Anon he was cast out to woe and pain. O gluttony! well ought us on thee plain. Oh! wist a man how many maladies Follow of éxcess and of gluttonies, He wouldë be the morë measuráble 3560