Of this chapitre in which we trete There is yit on of such diete, [Sidenote: Hic tractat super illa specie Gule que Delicacia nuncupatur, cuius mollicies[767] voluptuose carni in personis precipue potentibus queque[768] complacencia corporaliter ministrat.] To which no povere mai atteigne; For al is Past of paindemeine[769] 620 And sondri wyn and sondri drinke, Wherof that he wole ete and drinke: Hise cokes ben for him affaited, So that his body is awaited, That him schal lacke no delit, Als ferforth as his appetit Sufficeth to the metes hote. Wherof this lusti vice is hote Of Gule the Delicacie, Which al the hole progenie 630 Of lusti folk hath undertake To feede, whil that he mai take Richesses wherof to be founde:[770] Of Abstinence he wot no bounde, To what profit it scholde serve. And yit phisique of his conserve [Sidenote: =P. iii. 23=] Makth many a restauracioun Unto his recreacioun, Which wolde be to Venus lief. Thus for the point of his relief 640 The coc which schal his mete arraie, Bot he the betre his mouth assaie, His lordes thonk schal ofte lese, Er he be served to the chese: For ther mai lacke noght so lyte, That he ne fint anon a wyte; For bot his lust be fully served,[771] Ther hath no wiht his thonk deserved. And yit for mannes sustenance, To kepe and holde in governance, 650 To him that wole his hele gete Is non so good as comun mete: For who that loketh on the bokes,[772] It seith, confeccion of cokes, A man him scholde wel avise Hou he it toke and in what wise. For who that useth that he knoweth, Ful selden seknesse on him groweth, And who that useth metes strange, Though his nature empeire and change 660 It is no wonder, lieve Sone, Whan that he doth ayein his wone; [Sidenote: Philosophus. Consuetudo est altera natura.] For in Phisique this I finde, Usage is the seconde kinde.[773] [Sidenote: =P. iii. 24=]