This sin is divided, as by St. Gregory, into five boughs. For in five ways one sins by meat and by drink; either in that one eats and drinks before time, or too greedily, or out of measure, or too ardently, or too plenteously. The first bough, then, of this sin is to eat before time, and too foul a thing it is of a man that has age when he cannot wait for the time to eat; and of great lechery of throat it comes that a man who is strong and whole of body without reasonable cause yearns for meat before the right hour, as does a dumb beast. And many sins come of the same habit. Then it comes about that such a man says, that he cannot fast or do penance; for he has said this: ‘I have too bad a head.’ And he says true, for he has made it such, and an evil heart also, which that sin has made, and has caused him to break the fasts, which is a great sin. And if he damned himself by himself, thereof no matter; but he will have fellows, that do as he does, whom he draws from well-doing, and leads them with him into hell. For he causes them to break their fasts and do their gluttonies, wherefrom they would keep themselves, if there were no evil companions. For the drinker and the whoremonger, among the other evils that they do, [commit] one sin that is properly the devil’s, when they withdraw [others] from well-doing. They say that they cannot fast, but they lie. For little love of God possesses them that I speak of. For if they loved the true joy of heaven as much as they do the idle bliss of this world, as they fast because of temporal needs until night, as well might they fast until noon for God, if they loved Him so much. But they are just like the child that will always have the bread in his hand. And thou shalt know that as one sins by too early rising in order to eat, so also one sins in supping late. The folk, then, that love to sup late, and to keep awake at night, and waste the time in idleness, and go late to bed and rise late, sin in many ways. First, in that they waste the time and misspend it, when they make of the night day and of the day night. Such folk God accurses by the prophet. For one shall by day do good, and by night praise God and pray; but whoever lies abed when he should arise, sleep he must when he should pray, and his service hear, and praise God; and thus he loses all his time, both by night and by day. Afterwards in such vigils one does many evils, as play at chess or at games of hazard, and one says much scorn and folly, and thus the wretch wastes his time and his wits and his goods, and angers God, and harms his body, and still more his soul.