When the champion has felled his man and holds him by the throat, with great difficulty he arises. And so it is with those that the devil holds through sin, and therefore blithely he runs at the throat, like the wolf to the sheep, in order to strangle him, as he did to Eve and to Adam in the terrestrial paradise. That is the fisherman of hell, who takes the fish by the throat and by the chin. This sin much displeases God. For the glutton works too great a shame when he makes his god of a sack full of dung, that is, of his belly, which he loves more than God, and in it remains, and serves it. God commands him to fast; the belly says: ‘Thou shalt not, but eat long and continuously.’ God commands him in the morning to arise; the belly says: ‘Thou shalt not; I am too full, it behoves me to sleep; the church is no hare, it can well await me.’ And when he arises, he begins his matins and his prayers and his orisons, and says: ‘Ah, God! what shall we eat to-day? whether one shall find anything that is worth (eating)?’ After these matins come the praises, and he says: ‘Ah, God! lo, we had good wine yester evening and good meats.’ And after that he beweeps his sins and says: ‘Alas!’ he says: ‘I have been nigh dead to-night; too strong was that wine last evening. My head aches; I shall not be at ease until I have drunk.’ Thus, too, the evil man says. This sin leads man to shame. For first of all he becomes a tavern-goer, then he plays at dice, then he sells his own, then he becomes ribald, a whoremonger and thief, and then one hangs him. This is the scot (payment) that one often pays.