The fifth bough is the anxiety of gluttons, who seek only the delight of their swallow. These are properly lechers, who seek only the lust of their swallow. In three things especially lies the sin of such folk. First, in the great anxiety that they have to purchase and to prepare; afterwards, in the great lust that they have in the use; afterwards, in the bliss that they have in the recalling. And who (is there) that could tell what trouble they take in order that their meats may be well prepared, and each to his own smack, and how they may make of one meat many disguised messes because of their foul lust. And when the messes are come, one after the other, then are (there) jests and trifles for _entrements_, and in this manner goes the time. The wretch forgets himself, reason sleeps, the stomach (in complaint) cries and says: ‘Dame Swallow, thou slayest me; I am so full that I burst asunder.’ But the tongue, the lickster, answers him and says: ‘Though thou shouldst burst asunder, I will not let this mess escape.’ After the lechery that is in eating comes the bliss that is in him who recalls (it). Afterwards they wish that they had the necks of a crane and the belly of a cow, in order that the morsels might remain longer in the throat, and (that they) might devour more. Now thou hast heard the sins that come of gluttony and of lechery. And because such sins arise commonly in the tavern, which is a well of sin, therefore I will touch a little upon the sins that are done in the tavern. The tavern is the school of the devil, where his disciples study, and his own chapel, where one performs his service, and where he does his miracles, such as it behoves the devil (to do). At church God can show His virtues and do His miracles, to give sight to the blind, to make the crooked straight, to restore the wits of the mad, speech to the dumb, hearing to the deaf. But the devil does all, on the contrary, in the tavern. For when the glutton goes into the tavern, he goes upright; when he comes out, he has not a foot that can sustain or bear him. When he goes therein, he sees and hears and speaks well and understands; when he comes out, he has lost all this, just like one that has not wit or reason or understanding. Such are the miracles that the devil does. And what lessons he reads there! All filth he teaches there, gluttony, lechery, swearing, forswearing; to lie, to slander, to deny God, to misreport, to dispute, and too many other kinds of sins. There arise chidings, strifes, manslaughters; there one teaches to steal and to be hanged. The tavern is a ditch to thieves, and the devil’s castle in order to war against God and His saints; and those that sustain the taverns are sharers in all the sins that are done in their taverns; and forsooth if one said or did as much shame to their father or to their mother or to their lads, as one does to their heavenly Father and to our Lady and to the saints of paradise, they would grow very angry and take