_Lib._ I mean not so, pardy! For that is waste and sinful prodigality. Take the midway, betwixt them two, And flee the extremities howsoever thou do. Thou must thy worldly goods so employ, In charitable deeds with due compassion, That thou mayest buy everlasting joy For the good intent of that distribution. Thou mayest also give them to thy damnation; As when thou doest it to win thereby Praising of the people, or some other vain glory. For, trust it well! thou must give a reckoning Of all the goods that come to thine use. The high Judge that knoweth all thing, To whom thou shalt thyself accuse, Without any appeal or feigned excuse ... in this case From whom thou canst not hide thy face. There shalt thou openly show and confess How that goods came to thy possession; What mind and pleasure thou had'st in riches; And why thou had'st therein such affection; What alms-deed or other good distribution; Or how thou hast these goods wasted or abused-- There it shall be known: it cannot be refused. Then, as I said to thee before, Thou shalt receive after thy deserving: Joy or else pain to endure evermore. _Man._ Truly this is a fearful thing! _Lib._ Therefore, remember well my saying; Mark well my counsel, and follow the same. _Man._ If I did not I were greatly to blame! _Then_ LIBERALITY _goeth out and_ ABSTINENCE _and_ CHASTITY _come in._ _Abst._ The remedy of Gluttony I can well teach: I am ordained only for that intent. _Man._ And I have great need of such a leech; Your counsel to me is right expedient. _Abst._ Sir! if ye lust to be my patient, And take such remedy as I shall devise I shall make you whole of that sin, on warrantise! _Man._ What is your name? _Abst._ My name is Abstinence; And this other that cometh with me Is called Chastity, or else Continence: It is his guise, and his property, To follow me wheresoever I be; Likewise as lechery, that deadly sore, Followeth the beastly sin of gluttony evermore, _Quia delicia sunt instrumenta voluptatis_. But now to do that I came for. Again the sin of gluttony the remedy is this: Use scarcer diet than thou did'st before; Beware of superfluity and surfeit evermore; Take no more than sufficeth nature; Nor of delicate meat set thou no store. Now have I said all that longeth to my cure.