¶How alle thynges ought to be doon by reason & mesure. Caplm .vij.
OVre body ought to be chastysed by wakȳges & by dyuerse other
Vitas patrum.
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- Vitas patrum.
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- [Westminster :: Printed by Wynkyn de Worde,
- 1495]
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- Fathers of the church -- Early works to 1800.
- Christian saints -- Early works to 1800.
- Hermits -- Early works to 1800.
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"Vitas patrum." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04386.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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maners / to the ende that it drawe not our soule to synne / but neuerthelesse it must be doon in suche maner / that in chastysyng it / he leue not to do good werkes / for he yt wolde make lene & put his bodye to afflyccōn in suche wyse yt he may not contynue in vertuous wer¦kes he sholde not be wyse ne dyscrete. And yu oughtest to vnderstonde yt ye ver¦tues of scylence / nakednes / abstynence / & chastysyng of his bodye ought to be doon with dyscrecyon / the whiche is a souerayne vertue / & without the whi∣che none operacōn is vayllable / & whe¦re she shall be / it shal be merytorye / by defaulte of dyscrecōn the operacōn is not prouffytable / wherfor we may saye that dyscrecōn is moder of ye other ver¦tues. And therfor I admoneste the yt yu take dyscrecōn in al thy werkes / to the ende that thou falle not on that one sy¦de ne on that other. Of this vertue of dyscrecōn yu hast in ye lyfe of faders cal¦led in latyn Vitas pat••ū. for thabbot Anthonye sayth / that there be some yt make lene theyr bodyes / but for yt they do it not dyscretly they ben well ferre fro the Royame of god.