In that part of the _Mirour_ which treats of vices, each deadly sin is dealt with regularly under five principal heads, or, as the author expresses it, has five daughters. Now this fivefold division is not, so far as I can discover, borrowed from any former writer. It is of course quite usual in moral treatises to deal with the deadly sins by way of subdivision, but usually the number of subdivisions is irregular, and I have not found any authority for the systematic division of each into five. The only work, so far as I know, which shares this characteristic with the _Mirour_ is the _Confessio Amantis_. It is true that in this the rule is not fully carried out; the nature of the work did not lend itself so easily to a quite regular treatment, and considerable variations occur: but the principle which stands as the basis of the arrangement is clearly visible, and it is the same which we find in our _Mirour_. This is a point which it is worth while to exhibit a little more at large, and here the divisions of the first three deadly sins are set forth in parallel columns: _Mirour de l’omme._ | _Confessio Amantis._ i. Orguil, with five daughters, viz. |i. Pride, with five ministers, viz. Ipocresie | Ypocrisie Vaine gloire | Inobedience Surquiderie | Surquiderie Avantance | Avantance Inobedience. | Veine gloire. | ii. Envie |ii. Envie Detraccioun | Dolor alterius gaudii Dolour d’autry Joye | Gaudium alterius doloris Joye d’autry mal | Detraccioun Supplantacioun | Falssemblant Fals semblant. | Supplantacioun. | iii. Ire |iii. Ire Malencolie | Malencolie Tençoun | Cheste Hange | Hate Contek | Contek Homicide. | Homicide. In the latter part of the _Confessio Amantis_ the fivefold division is not strictly observed, and in some books the author does not profess to deal with all the branches; but in what is given above there is quite enough to show that this method of division was recognized and that the main headings are the same in the two works.