¶ Of saynt Am̄onion abbot. begyn̄yn¦ge ¶Vidim{us} quendā / Caplm xxiii.
AMonges the same heremytes & relygyouses saynt Iherom saw one namyd Am̄onyon. to whom god had gyuen all plenytude of graces / & pryncypally he had merueyls us charyte. humylite none lyke. & gene¦rally asmoche in pacyence. clemence & benygnyte / Also in scyence & prudence he was moost perfite of theim al / The sayd Am̄onyon had ii· bred{er}n. yt one na∣myd Eusebius & ye other Eu••imius / yt whyche were not oonly bred{er}n carnalle. but also in lyf. in religyon & in vertues they were germayns / Thise iii. bredern solycyted in theyr tyme the other bred{er}n as the mod{er} thynkyth on her chyld{er}n in helpyng theym not on̄ly to theyr corpo¦rall lyfe. but also to the spirituell. as en¦scynynge theym to vertues & good ma¦ners / The same saynt Am̄onion dwel¦led in a monastery closyd wyth walles In whiche he hȳselfe had made a pytt And it happed yt a broder transported hymself towarde him for to haue a ly∣tyll hous to dwell in thermytage / The whyche answerde to hym that he hadd none. but he made hym to dwell in his monastery. vnto the time he had foūde one / ¶ Sone after he delyuerde to him a lytyll one. the whiche he fonde nye ye sayde monastery / And yf by aduenture had many come. he had Incōtynent ga¦dred togider his bred{er}n. and in lytyll ty∣me had made a monastery /