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<P>&para; Saynt Augu&s;tyns Rule in engly&s;&s;he alone.</P>
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<FIGDESC>jesus on throne with saints and angels praying</FIGDESC>
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<HEAD>In our lorde god / and moo&s;t &s;wete &s;auiour Ie&s;u my &s;alutacyon.</HEAD>
<P>_GOod deuout relygyous doughters ye haue here &s;ende vnto me your rule of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn / and done requyre me / other to amende / and reforme y^e engly&s;&s;he / or els to tran&s;|late y^e rule of newe. I haue (after my poore maner) folowed the one parte of your de&s;yre. For to amende your tran&s;la|cyon pa&s;&s;ed my power and wyt. It &s;emeth vnto me &s;o &s;cabrou&s;e / rughe / or rude / and not after the commune engly&s;&s;he of this countree. And al&s;o the tran&s;lator dyde lene ouer moche vnto the &s;trayte lettre. Whiche thynge in tran&s;lacyon / doeth (ma|ny tymes) rendre the mater very blynde / &amp; moche vn&s;auerye. By rea&s;on wherof / your tran&s;lator in gyuynge ouer moche dylygence and force vnto the lettre / hath (in &s;ome places erred) and not rendred the true &s;entence of the texte / after y^e mynde of the auctor. I wolde not (therfore) that you &s;hold mer|uayle / thoughe y^e wordes here in this tran&s;lacion done varye frome the wordes of your tran&s;lacion. For in euery &s;peche / one &s;entence maye be &s;poken dyuer&s;ly / and by dyuers wordes / and yet y^e &s;ame &s;elfe &s;entence remayneth &s;tyll in full effecte / as ye &s;hall &s;e here in the fyr&s;te clau&s;e / or &s;entence of the rule. Ante omnia diligatur deus. That is after your tran&s;lacyon.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="j."> &para; Before all be loued god. Now &s;e how this &s;en|tence may be varyed / &amp; yet byde y^e &s;ame in effecte.</P>
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<P><MILESTONE N="ij."> &para; God before all thynges be euer beloued</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="iij."> God &s;holde be aboue all thynges beloued</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="iiij."> Let god be euer beloued before all other thynges</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="v."> God mu&s;t be of duete beloued aboue all thynges</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="vj."> It is conuenyent &amp; nece&s;&s;ary to loue god aboue all thy~g&abis;</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="vij."> Nothy~g may of right be &s;o beloued as god</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="viij."> what thy~g &s;hold by rea&s;o~ be more beloued tha~ god</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="ix."> ye mu&s;t aboue all thynges loue almyghty god</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="x."> ye &s;holde as duete loue god before all thynges</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="xj."> I wyll that before all other thynges you loue our lorde god.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="xij."> Let euer your loue be vnto all myghty god aboue all thynges.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="xiij."> Your loue mu&s;t chefly aboue all thy~g&abis; be vnto god</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="xiiij."> Lette euer in your herte and mynde god be aboue all thynges preferred.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="xv."> Let nothynge be equall vnto god in your loue and de&s;yre.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="xvj."> Let god be euer in your mynde &amp; de&s;yre / aboue all thynges.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="xvij."> Let your &s;pecyall loue be alwaye vnto god alone</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="xviij."> Lette euer the loue of your creatour be aboue ony creature.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="xix."> Put euer the loue of god before ony other loue.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="xx."> Loue god be&s;t of all thynges.</P>
<P>Thus ye maye &s;e one &s;e~tence in engly&s;&s;he varied xx. wayes / and yet all is one in effecte. That all waye is be&s;t in my mynde / that be&s;t maye be per|ceyued &amp; vnder&s;tonde after the v&s;e of the countre. And therfore haue I cho&s;en here a playne &s;tyle / without ynkehorne termes. If ony &s;uche be here
<PB REF="3"> after the commune v&s;e / yet doeth an other terme folowe / or twayne of more playne engly&s;&s;he / to de|clare that goeth before. Saynt Ierome &s;aythe y^t &s;crypture was wryten without hyghe eloquence in a playne &s;tyle / bycau&s;e it &s;hold y^e rather be kno|wen / &amp; vnder&s;tonde of all par&s;ones y^t ben bounde vnto y^e lawe of god. So than vnto relygyous par|&s;ones &s;hold theyr rule / wherunto next vnto y^e &s;ayd lawe of god they ben moo&s;t bounde. For that haue they promy&s;ed by &s;olen vowe / &amp; receyued therupo~ y^e &s;acrament of chry&s;tes holy body / &amp; &s;acred blode. That rule than &s;holde well be knowen / well vn|der&s;tonde / well perceyued / and well incorporate in the mynde / herte / and maners of euery profe&s;&s;ed par&s;on. And therfore dyd &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn conclu|dynge his rule / gyue &s;olen commaundement vnto all the dy&s;cyples of the &s;ame / that ones in y^e weke (at the lee&s;t) it &s;holde be redde amonge them. Yet notwith&s;tondynge haue I herde of &s;om par&s;ones y^t haue be~ yeres profe&s;&s;ed / &amp; neuer knewe theyr ru+le / ne euer &s;awe or herde / ony rule redde / but one|ly dyd folowe y^e cu&s;tome of y^e place / whiche thynge is moche amy&s;&s;e. &amp; contrarye bothe vnto lernynge and rea&s;on. For in good rea&s;on / no man &s;holde pro|my&s;e that he knoweth not / that is (as they &s;aye) a blynde promy&s;e / and to promy&s;e that a par&s;one is not able to performe / is a grete foly &amp; &s;hame vn+to the promy&s;er / our &s;auyour is wytnes therof in the go&s;pell / &s;hewynge that y^e par&s;one that wolde begyn to buylde / &amp; hath not wherwith to perfor|me his enterpry&s;e / &s;hall be mocked and rebuked.<NOTE PLACE="marg">luc. xiiij.</NOTE> And one kynge w^t fewe people / to mete an other
<PB REF="4" MS="y"> kynge in batayle y^t hathe a grete ho&s;te / is a grete foly. To entre relygyon / is an enterpry&s;e of grete buyldynge and Ieorpedou&s;e batayell. For all is here &s;pirituall apperteynynge vnto the &s;oule / and therfore &s;hold all par&s;ones that wolde profe&s;&s;e ony rule / knowe well what they take vpon the~. They &s;holde fyr&s;t &s;e / or here the rule / and ordynaunce of the profe&s;&s;yon and haue it wel expowned / &amp; decla|red vnto them. And than &s;hold they by experience and excercy&s;e of y^e &s;ame / proue them &s;elfe whether they haue &s;trengthe / and ben able bothe in &s;oule &amp; body / to performe &amp; kepe the &s;ame and to do theyr hole duete therin. For I dare well a&s;&s;ure you that euery good deuout &amp; vertuou&s;e par&s;on is not apte ne mete to be a good relygyous par&s;one. For euery good man is not apte or mete to be a good &s;ynger or reder / ne euery good woman to be a good &s;ylke|woman / or a good &s;em&s;ter. For many par&s;ones y^t fayne wolde be religyous / can neuer haue lernyn-therunto / &s;ome other ben not able to bere &amp; folowe y^e labours of relygion. They mu&s;t therfore knowe fyr&s;te y^e rule / than proue &amp; a&s;&s;ay them &s;elfe therin / &amp; yet thyrdely &s;holde they loke wel amonge what company they were profe&s;&s;ed. For it mu&s;t nede be true y^t the holy gho&s;t &s;pake by y^e prophete &s;aynge. With innocent par&s;ones thou &s;halte be good and innocent / with my&s;doers a my&s;doer. They &s;holde therfore entre relygyon where (as ferre as they may haue knowlege) the rule is kepte. Notwit|&s;tondynge &s;ome couentes and par&s;ones profe&s;&s;ed ben lothe / &amp; (as I haue knowen) done make grete dau~ger to &s;hewe theyr rule / wherof I haue moche
<PB REF="4"> meruayled / &s;yth after naturall lernynge &amp; rea&s;on / euery thynge y^t is good / the more it be knowen &amp; the more commune it be / the better it is. And &s;om thynges y^t ben very good knowen / ben not good excepte they be knowen / &amp; co~mune. As holy &s;crip+ture y^e rules of relygyo~ all maner of holy doctryne &amp; lernynge. Wherfore our lorde and &s;auyour Ie&s;u commaunded that his rule &s;holde be knowen and comune / &s;aynge vnto his holy apo&s;tles.<NOTE PLACE="marg">mar. <ABBR>vlt.</ABBR></NOTE> Ite pre|dicate eua~geliu~ omni creature. Go ye forthe (&s;ayd he) and preche the go&s;pell my rule vnto euery ma|ner of creature / that is to meane vnto all par&s;ons good and badde.<NOTE PLACE="marg">thob~. xij.</NOTE> The priuate coun&s;ell of worldly ky~ges may be kepte &s;ecrete / but euery lawe &s;hold be openly knowen / heretykes / traytours / theues &amp; my&s;doers / done kepe theyr maters &s;ecrete. But trouthe &s;eketh no corners / for (as the co~mune pro|uerbe &s;ayth) trouthe neuer &s;hamed his may&s;ter. Why than ben they &s;o lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h to &s;hewe theyr rule / &s;u|rely bycau&s;e they do not kepe it / and therfore ben they loth and afrayed to be knowen as they be / y^t is to &s;aye / heretykes / &s;y&s;matykes and very tray|tours vnto the ordinances of theyr rule &amp; profe&s;&s;y|on / as the commune heretykes and &s;y&s;matykes ben vnto y^e lawes and ordynances of holy chyrche and theyr profe&s;&s;yon of cri&s;tianite. Our &s;auyour &s;ayth. Qui male agit: odit lucem. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh~. iij.</NOTE> Who that doeth amy&s;&s;e doeth hate lyght / y^e my&s;doers wolde not theyr werkes &s;holde be knowen / bycau&s;e they wolde not be reproued for them. The cau&s;e than why many ben &s;o daungerous to &s;hewe theyr rule is that they kepe it not / or rather (that I more do
<PB REF="5"> fete &amp; drede) they wolde not y^e rule &s;hold be kepte / but rather theyr vnlawful co&s;tomes / for I knowe by experye~ce of &s;uche par&s;ons / as done kepe theyr rules &amp; ordyna~ces / as the reuere~de fathers freres ob&s;eruantes / charterhou&s;es. This pore place and &s;om other places / they ben not loth to &s;hewe theyr rule / but rather wolde they be glad theyr rule we|re vnto all par&s;ones commenly knowen in moo&s;t clere &amp; open maner / for the edyfycacyon of all chry|&s;tyans.<NOTE PLACE="marg">math~. v.</NOTE> So is y^e coun&s;ell of our &s;auyour. Luceat lux ve&s;tra coram hominibus. Let your good wer|kes (&s;ayth he) be example and lyght vnto all par|&s;ones. I pray you therfore. In vi&s;teribus Ie&s;u chri&s;ti. That is to &s;aye / for the tender loue &amp; moo&s;t pyteous kyndnes of our moo&s;t &s;wete &s;auyour Ie|&s;u chry&s;t / that you appoynte / determyne / &amp; ordre your &s;elfe / with all herte / &s;tudy / &amp; mynde / to kepe your rule. And than care not who &s;e your rule / wo rede your rule / who knowe your rule. Rede it your &s;elfe / knowe it your &s;elfe / preche it / teche it / &amp; ope~ly &s;hewe it. Be nothyng afrayd ne dau~gerous therof &s;o ye fyr&s;t kepe it and werke it. For vnto that ende haue we taken this poore laboure of tran&s;lacyon. And al&s;o for y^e more knowlege &amp; declaracio~ therof / we haue put therunto our my~de &amp; ioyned therun|to y^e fruytefull expo&s;ycyon of y^e grete clarke &amp; holy &s;aynt called Hugh de &s;a~cto victore a reuerende fa|ther &amp; an abbot of the &s;ame relygion &amp; rule. which ye &s;hal haue as &s;hortly as we may brynge it vnto ende. In the meane tyme &amp; euer / I be&s;eche you of your deuout prayers. And thus Ie&s;u our moo&s;te &s;wete lorde &amp; louynge may&s;ter &abpre;&s;erue you al</P>
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<HEAD>The rule of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn tran&s;lated out of latyn in to engly&s;&s;he / indefferently vnto bothe the &s;exes / that is to &s;aye vnto y^e brothers and &s;y&s;ters of that pro|fe&s;&s;yon.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>The fyr&s;t chapytre.</HEAD>
<P>_O Ere beloued relygious frendes ye mu&s;t aboue all thynges loue almyghty god / &amp; than y^e neygh+bour. For the&s;e co~maundemen|tes ben vnto vs fyr&s;t and pryn|cipally gyuen and co~maunded. We therfore done charge and commaunde you that ben con&s;tytute and ordred in the mona&s;terye / that you ob&s;erue and kepe the&s;e thynges that done folowe. Fyr&s;te that you dwelle &amp; byde in your hou&s;e q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">etly re&s;tfully &amp; agreable togyder in all goodnes / for therunto ye be gadred togyder in one couent / and that you haue (in our lorde) one herte / one wyll / and one mynde.<NOTE PLACE="marg">xij. q. j. no~ dicat&abis; de ca&s;&s;ian&abus;. li. iiij. ca. xiij. de in|&s;titut&abis; re|nu~cia~tiu~.</NOTE> And y^t al&s;o you nother name ne call ony thynge properly your owne / but that all thynges be vnto you com|mune. And yet forther that euery thynge ye &s;hall nede / as mete / drynke &amp; clothynge / be di&s;trybuted deuyded &amp; a&s;&s;ygned or appoy~ted vnto eueryche of you by your &s;ouerayn / not equally or i~ lyke porcio~ vnto all (for you be not all of lyke &s;trength) but ra|ther it &s;o be deuyded as vnto euery par&s;one is ne|ce&s;&s;ary.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>act.</ABBR> ij.</NOTE> For &s;o done we rede in y^e actes of y^e apo&s;tles that all thynges were vnto them commune / and
<PB REF="6"> vnto eueryche was deuyded &amp; departed / as vnto euerych was nece&s;&s;arye. And therfore &s;uche par|&s;ones as in the worlde whan they entred the mo|na&s;terye had ony &s;ub&s;taunce of gooddes / let them haue gladde mynde / and good wyll / and de&s;yre it be commune. And &s;uche as nothynge had / let not them &s;eke ne de&s;yre in the mona&s;tery y^t they coude not / ne were of power to haue a brode in y^e worlde / yet notwith&s;ta~dynge that y^t is nece&s;&s;ary for theyr infyrmyte &amp; nede let them haue / althoughe theyr pouertye were &s;uche (whan they were abrode in the worlde) y^t they myght not / ne were of powere to haue that was nece&s;&s;arye / yet neuertheles let them not thynke them&s;elfe therfore happy &amp; well at ea&s;e / bycau&s;e they haue founde within the mo|na&s;terye / fode / clothynge / and other nece&s;&s;aryes / &s;uche as without they coude not haue / nor yet let them &s;tretche out the necke ne be the more proude / &s;tately / bolde / or malapert bycau&s;e they ben now accompanyed as felowes w^t tho&s;e par&s;ones / vnto who&s;e pre&s;ence (w^tout in the worlde) they dur&s;t not approche ne pre&s;ume. But let them rather lyfte vp theyr hertes vnto heue~ly thynges / and nother &s;eke / ne yet de&s;yre or couet to haue y^e vayne thyn|ges of this worlde / le&s;t therby y^e mona&s;teryes &s;hol+de wex profytable vnto the ryche / and not vnto y^e poore par&s;ones / yf therin the ryche were mekened &amp; brought lowe / &amp; the poore bolne vp with pryde.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; The &s;econde chapytre.</HEAD>
<P>ANd agayne &s;uche par&s;ones as in y^e worlde &s;emed to be &s;et by and to be of reputacyon / let not them dy&s;dayne / haue &s;corne / ne be werye of
<PB REF="6"> theyr felowes / that from pouerte came vnto that holy company / but let them rather &s;tudy and de|&s;yre to reioyce and be glad / not of the dygnete and honour of theyr ryche kyn and frendes / but of the co~panye of theyr poore felowes. Nor yet let them (yf they gaue or broughte ony of theyr worldly gooddes vnto the commenty) loke to haue thanke preimynence &amp; the more to be &s;et by therfore. Nor yet to be proude of theyr riches bycau&s;e they gaue them vnto the mona&s;terie more than yf they had (in the worlde) inioyed &amp; v&s;ed them at theyr owne plea&s;ure. For (of a &s;uertye) euery other iniquite &amp; &s;yn~e / what &s;o euer it be is excercy&s;ed in yll werkes to brynge them to pa&s;&s;e or vnto effecte / but pryde lyeth in wayte of good werkes to cau&s;e theym to pery&s;&s;he and come to nought. And what auayleth it to &s;parpoyle and deele forthe gooddes vnto the poore / and &s;o (in worldly ryches) to be made bare and nedy / yf the whretched &s;oule be more proude in dy&s;py&s;ynge &amp; for&s;akynge of that ryches / than it was in the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon &amp; v&s;ynge of them at wyll / plea&s;ure / &amp; lyberte. All you therfore (I &s;aye) lyue and be co~uer&s;ant togyder re&s;tfully of one mynde &amp; agreably / &amp; in your &s;elfe eche vnto other amonge your &s;elfe do honoure vnto almyghty god who&s;e temples / mancyons &amp; dwellynge place / ye nowe ben made and ordeyned. And in your prayers and &s;eruyce of god in the due houres &amp; tymes appoynt|ted and a&s;&s;ygned / be you euer dilygent and hedy. In the oratorye chyrche or place of prayer / let no par&s;one do ony werke or bu&s;ynes but onely praye. For therunto the chyrche was ordeyned &amp; made / 
<PB REF="7"> and therof hath y^e name of an oratorye. The cau&s;e wherof is / that yf ony par&s;one (be&s;yde duete and y^e houres appoynted) haue ley&s;er and wolde theyr praye / y^t other par&s;ones that in the chyrche wolde do ony other laboures or bu&s;ynes / &s;holde not vnto them be impedeme~t or let. And whan &s;o euer you done praye and &s;erue god with p&s;almes / ympnes or with other duetyes / let euer the &s;ame thyng be reme~bred in your herte and mynde / that is vttred &s;poke or &s;onge by your mouthe. And neuer couet you to &s;ynge but y^t you knowe by auctoryte &s;holde be &s;onge. And yf ony thynge be ordeyned not to be &s;onge let it not be &s;onge.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; The thyrde chapytre.</HEAD>
<P>_COrrect you al&s;o and abate your fle&s;&s;he and body by ab&s;tynence &amp; fa&s;tyng from mete and drynke / as moche as your nature helth and &s;trength may bere.<NOTE PLACE="marg">ca&s;&s;ian&abus;. li. iiij. ca. xviij. de in&s;titut&abis;. renu~tia~c.</NOTE> And yf ony of you may not fa&s;t / yet &s;hal they take no fode be&s;yde melety|me / but whan they ben &s;eke.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibidem. ca. xvij.</NOTE> And whan ye be &s;et at the table / ye mu&s;te contynually vnto the tyme ye ry&s;e therfrom / gyue good eere and herkenynge and without noy&s;e or contencyon / take good hede what (after your co&s;tome) is redde amonge you / &s;o that not onely your mouth take mete / but your eeres and heryng do al&s;o honger &amp; de&s;yre y^e worde of god. And yf &s;uche par&s;ones as (of olde cu&s;tom) be~ &s;eke or feble be otherwy&s;e entreated &amp; prouided
<PB REF="7"> fore / tha~ the other that ben hole and (by cu&s;tome) more &s;tronge in nature / let not the hole par&s;ones / grudge ne ony thynge be greued therw^t / nor thyn|ke it vniu&s;t or wronge. Nor yet &s;holde they iudge or thynke the feble par&s;ones more happy or better at ea&s;e / bycau&s;e they haue that they haue not / but rather &s;holde they reioyce and be glad of them &s;elf and that thanke god that they ben able to do that they ben not. And yf vnto &s;uche par&s;ones as haue come vnto y^e mona&s;terye from delycate educacyon and tendre bryngynge vp ony mete clothynge / or other nece&s;&s;aries be gyuen / that vnto the &s;tronger par&s;ones be not gyuen / whiche par&s;ones in that they be &s;tronger ben more happy &amp; in better ca&s;e / let not tho&s;e &s;tro~ger par&s;ones grudge therat. But rather let them con&s;yder and wey how lowe they came downe frome theyr e&s;tate or degre / that lefte and for&s;oke the &s;eculer lyfe of plea&s;ure to com vnto this lyfe of hardnes &amp; laboure / although they be not able to attayne and reche vnto &s;uche frugalite and moderacion (called in co~mune engly&s;&s;he good hu&s;bondry) as ben the other per&s;ones that ben (of nature) more &s;tronge in body. Nor yet &s;holde all y^e hole company couet or de&s;yre that they &s;e a fewe par&s;ones haue / whiche thynge they haue not by|cau&s;e they be had in more honoure or reuerence &amp; more in fauour / but that rather they ben the more &s;uffred and borne. And why &s;holde not all de&s;yre in lyke. Le&s;t by that meane &s;holde happe or fall a grete peruer&s;yte and abhomynable my&s;ordre / y^t in y^e mona&s;terye (wherunto theyr &s;tre~gth &amp; power) the ryche and noble par&s;ones &s;holde be laboryou&s;e
<PB REF="8"> and contynually occupyed / the poore par&s;ones of lowe degre &s;holde be made delycate and ydle. And yet as it is nece&s;&s;ary for y^e &s;eke and feble par&s;ones to kepe a dyete / and take the le&s;&s;e fode (for y^e tyme) le&s;t they &s;holde be greued or hurte therby / &s;o is it co~uenyent y^t after theyr &s;ekenes they be &s;o entrea|ted and chery&s;&s;hed that they maye the &s;oner be re|couered. And that although whan they came in to relygyon / they were in moo&s;t depe pouertye or nedynes. As thoughe theyr late &s;ekenes or feble|nes &s;holde put them in &s;uche ca&s;e or &s;tate / as dyd y^e ryche par&s;ones theyr fore v&s;ed cu&s;tome. But not with<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ndynge whan they haue recouered theyr olde &s;trength and ben hole / than let them retourne vnto <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">heyr more happy and gracyous cu&s;tome of hard <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">uynge. Whiche &s;o moche more beco~meth the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">uauntes of god / y^t they haue le&s;&s;e nede than y^e oth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r Le&s;t al&s;o y^e plea&s;ure of delycate fare &s;holde co~ty<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e with them that nowe ben hole / whome very <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e&s;&s;yte releued whan they were &s;eke. And let the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> euer thynke &amp; iudge tho&s;e par&s;ons moo&s;t ryche / <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat to &s;uffre hardenes ben moo&s;t &s;tronge.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>eccl.</ABBR> x. in fine.</NOTE> For be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">er is it &s;omwhat to nede &amp; wante / than to haue o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y thynge ouermoche.</P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para; The fourthe chapytre.</HEAD>
<P>LEt your habyte or arye: neuer be notable nor euer haue you plea&s;ure in clothynge / but in good maners and relygyous byhauyour. Whan ye go forthe go togyder. And wha~ ye come whether ye go / byde togyder. In your place / ha|byte
<PB REF="8" MS="y">
/ &s;tondynge / &amp; in al your ge&s;tures / mouynges &s;terynges / and byhauyour / &s;hewe you euer your good and godly conuer&s;acyon. So y^t ye nothynge do that &s;holde &s;clau~der or offende the &s;yght of ony par&s;one / but rather that &s;holde become your per|feccyon &s;anctite and holynes. And thoughe ye for|tune to ca&s;t your &s;yght or loke vpon ony frayle par+&s;one / yet may you not fyx your &s;yght ne loke &s;ted|fa&s;tly vpon ony &s;uche lyght par&s;ones. For whan ye go forth of your mona&s;terye / it is not prohybyte ne forboden you to &s;e or loke vpon frayle par&s;ones. But to haue appetyte or de&s;yre to haue or to my&s;|v&s;e them / or yet to be had or be mi&s;u&s;ed of them / is euer &s;ynfull. For y^e concupy&s;cence and carnall mo|cyons of frayle par&s;ones / not onely in the pryue affeccyon and inwarde de&s;yre / but al&s;o in bothe y^e &s;yght and affeccyon hathe mynde appetyte &amp; vn|lawfull de&s;yre to haue &amp; to be had. And neuer may you &s;aye ye haue clene and cha&s;te myndes / yf you haue wanton &s;yght &amp; vncha&s;te lokes. For y^e lyght eye &amp; vncha&s;te loke / is the me&s;&s;enger of the lyght mynde &amp; vncha&s;te herte. And whan &s;o euer &s;uche par&s;ones (althoughe without &s;peche) onely by lo|kynge eche vpon other / done &s;hewe forthe theyr carnall myndes &amp; vncha&s;te hertes / &amp; after y^e concu+py&s;cence and de&s;yre of the fle&s;&s;he / eche done take plea&s;ure in the carnall fauour of other / although there be none vnclene touchynge of y^e body yet (by that lewde con&s;ent) doeth that vertue of cha&s;tyte flee and auoyde frome theyr &s;oules and maners. And let not tho&s;e par&s;ones that &s;o done fa&s;te~ theyr lokes or &s;yght vpon other lyght &amp; frayle par&s;ons / 
<PB REF="9"> and that done al&s;o loue to haue agayn theyr &s;yght and lokes fyxed vpon them / let not them (I &s;aye) thynke ne &s;uppo&s;e they be not &s;ene ne perceyued of other par&s;ones wha~ they &s;o done. For in dede they ben &s;ene and perceyued / &amp; that of &s;uche par&s;ones as they wene not ne wold trowe fore. But though (in ca&s;e) it were pryuey &amp; no par&s;one &s;awe them / what wolde they thynke or do of hym that loketh frome aboue / almyghty god / frome who&s;e &s;yght nothyng can be hyd. wolde they &s;uppo&s;e or thinke he &s;awe them not bycau&s;e he is &s;o pacyent and &s;o doeth &s;uffre them in that yll and my&s;byhauyour. which he doeth &s;e in dede and wherof he hath &s;ure and certayne knowlege. Let therfore the holy re|lygyous par&s;ones feere &amp; drede to dy&s;plea&s;e hym. So that therby they haue not wyll ne co~&s;ent / &s;yn|fully to plea&s;e or content the other frayle par&s;ons. Let them thynke and &s;uppo&s;e that god doeth &s;e / &amp; beholde all thynges / that they therby haue not wyll ne con&s;ente vnlawfully to &s;e or beholde tho&s;e frayle par&s;ones. For in this thynge we haue com|maundement by holy &s;crypture to feere and drede god.<NOTE PLACE="marg">&abpro;uer. xv.</NOTE> where is &s;ayd. Abhominatio e&s;t domino de|figens oculum. Our lorde god doeth abhorre that par&s;one that doeth fyxe or fa&s;ten y^e &s;yght or lokes. Whan &s;o euer therfore you ben togyder in y^e chyr|che or ony where elles / where &s;uche frayle &amp; lyght par&s;ones ben pre&s;e~t take you good hede &amp; awayte eche vnto other. And amonge your &s;elfe be you ke|pers of your owne cha&s;tite / and of your relygyous hone&s;te. For our lorde god that dwelleth &amp; bydeth within you wyl by this meanes of your owne de|meanour
<PB REF="9"> and de&s;eruynge: pre&s;erue and kepe you. And yf (by chaunce) ony of you perceyue &amp; &s;pye this wantones of lokes wherof I &s;peke: in ony of your felowes / forthwith warne them therof / that no ferther inco~uenyence come or growe of y^e &s;ame / but that rather that thynge that &s;o began: maye be &s;hortly corrected and refourmed. But yf at ony tyme after y^e &s;ayd warnyng: you do &s;e or perceyue the &s;ame par&s;one do agayne the &s;ame thynge / let them that done fynde &amp; perceyue it: &s;hewe it forth and proclame the defaute / that the offender maye be cured corrected and refourmed. Notwith&s;ton|dynge the offence or defaute &s;holde fyr&s;t be &s;hewed vnto an other par&s;one or twayne / y^t by y^e mouthe and informacyon of two or thre par&s;ones: y^e &s;ame tre&s;pa&s;&s;er may be conuyc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed &amp; proued gylty. And by &s;uche competent correccyon and reformable re|buke: be al&s;o re&s;trayned from his iniquyte &amp; euyl. And for all y^t: you &s;hal not thy~ke or iudge your &s;elfe euyll / wylly / fraude my~ded / or malycyous:<NOTE PLACE="marg">&para; v. q. v. non vos iudicetis</NOTE> wha~ you &s;hewe forth &s;uche offences or defautes. For (of a &s;urete) you ben more noyou&s;e &amp; greter enemyes vnto tho&s;e offenders (&s;ythe ye myght in &s;hewyng theyr defaute correcte &amp; refourme your felowes) than ye be wha~ (by your &s;ylence) you &s;uffre them to pery&s;&s;he. For yf (in ca&s;e) your felowe hadde a wou~de or &s;ore in his body / whiche (for feere of cut|tynge or for drede of payne) he wolde hyde &amp; kepe &s;ecrete: were it not a cruelte in you to kepe y^e cou~&s;el &amp; contrarye: a grete pyte compa&s;&s;yon and of grete meryte to &s;hewe it forth. How moche more than &s;holde you &s;hewe the offence and defaute of your
<PB REF="10"> felowe? le&s;t it &s;holde rote &amp; mater inwarde in his herte. Yet notwith&s;tondynge before the offence or defaute: be &s;hewed vnto ony other par&s;one or par|&s;ones: by whome as recordes the &s;ayd tre&s;pa&s;&s;er (yf he wolde deney or defende the defaute) &s;holde be (as is &s;ayd) conuynced &amp; proued gylty / it &s;holde fyr&s;te be &s;hewed vnto the &s;ouerayne. That yf the par&s;one were neglygente or frowarde and wolde not be warned and refourme by the par&s;one that fyr&s;t fou~de the defaute / than &s;holde his offence be fyr&s;t &s;hewed vnto the &s;ouerayne / yf peraduenture the &s;ame tre&s;pa&s;&s;er: myght &s;o more &s;ecretely be re|fourmed / and the defaute no ferther to be open ne knowen vnto ony other par&s;ones. But yf the tre&s;|pa&s;&s;er wolde deney the offence: than mu&s;t y^e other recordes: be brought forthe / and that before y^e hole congregacyon / that the &s;ame tre&s;pa&s;&s;er may (not onely of one recorde be accu&s;ed) but al&s;o of twayne or thre: be conuycted and founde gylty. Whiche thynge &s;o proued: let the &s;ame tre&s;pa&s;&s;er (haue for his amendement / and refourmacyon) correccyon and puny&s;hment / accordynge vnto the iudgment of the pre&s;ydent or &s;ouerayne vnto the dy&s;pen&s;acy+on and appoyntement of whome: the &s;ame iudge|mente doeth appertayne / whiche correccyon and puny&s;hment: yf the &s;ayd tre&s;pa&s;&s;er wolde not take ne &s;uffre: but vtterly deney and for&s;ake it / let hym than (althoughe he wolde not departe) be vtterly ca&s;t out &amp; put awaye from your companye. For (I tell you) that is not cruelly: but rather mercyfully done. Le&s;t he (by that pe&s;telencyous contagyon &amp; euyll exa~ple) &s;holde infecte / lo&s;e / &amp; de&s;troye / many
<PB REF="10"> other per&s;ones. And this ordre and proce&s;&s;e that I haue here &s;poken of the garde and kepynge of the &s;yght that it be not carnally fixed vpon ony frayle or lyght par&s;one: I wyl al&s;o in all other lyke offen+ces that &s;hall be fou~de perceyued forboden iudged conuycte and proued gylty: be delygently &amp; feyth|fully ob&s;erued and kepte with the loue euer of the par&s;ones and hate of the vyces &s;yn~es or offences.<NOTE PLACE="marg">lxxxvi. <ABBR>di&s;t.</ABBR> odio.</NOTE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para; The fyfth chapytre.</HEAD>
<P>_But what &s;o euer par&s;on do pa&s;&s;e &s;o ferre in to &s;ynne &amp; my&s;ordre and &s;o ferre be ouer&s;ene:<NOTE PLACE="marg">xij. q. j. no~ dicatis.</NOTE> y^t they done receyue preueyly / lettres / bylles or ony other / gyftes or / token of ony maner of par&s;one: yf they do wylfully co~fe&s;&s;e and knowlege theyr defaute: let them be fauourable delt with / &amp; let prayer al&s;o be made for them. But yf (without &s;uche confe&s;&s;yon) they be founde and taken w^t the defaute / and therof accu&s;ed / conuycte and / proued gylty by wytnes: let them than accor|dynge vnto the iudgement of the pre&s;ydent or of y^e &s;ouerane: be more greuou&s;ly puny&s;&s;hed. You &s;hall al&s;o put your clothyng: in y^e kepynge of one offycer or twayne / or as many: as may be &s;uffycyent to kepe them clene &amp; &s;aufe that they be not corrupte nor hurte with mothes. And as you be fedde out of one celary: &s;o &s;hal you be clothed out of one ve&s;ty+ary or chambre. And yf it may conuenyently com|to pa&s;&s;e that the garmente be mete for y^e body and
<PB REF="11"> wyll &s;erue the par&s;one: take you than no care (as thoughe ony garment were yours) what garme~t you haue or whiche garment be offred &amp; brought vnto you / whether ye haue y^e &s;ame y^t (for y^e &s;ea&s;on of the yere) ye layde away / or an other garmente y^t one of your felowes had. So y^t vnto no par&s;one that thynge that is nece&s;&s;ary: be denyed. But yet yf (by occa&s;yon of that exchau~ge) co~tencyon / &s;tryfe murmure / or grudge / do ary&s;e &amp; begyn to growe amo~ge you / &s;o that &s;ome par&s;ons wolde co~playne that they haue nowe wors garmentes than tho&s;e were that they had before / and that they haue not de&s;erued &s;o to be clothed / nor to haue as theyr felo|wes haue: you maye therin proue &amp; &s;e your &s;elfe / how moche you wante or lacke inwardely of the holy habyte and &s;pyrytu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll apparell of your herte and &s;oule that &s;o done &s;tryue for the habyte &amp; aray of y^e body. Notwith&s;tondynge yf your infyrmyte &amp; fraylte: be &s;o con&s;ydred and &s;uffred of y^e offycers / y^t eueryche of you haue agayne y^e &s;ame garmentes that before they had / and that (for the tyme) they layd away: yet &s;hall you put your &s;tuffe all in one place / vnder the kepynge of the co~mune offycers. So that none of you werke ne laboure ony thyng for them &s;elfe / but y^t all your werkes and laboures be done vnto the commune profite.<NOTE PLACE="marg">ca&s;&s;ian&abus;. li. iiij. ca. xiiij. de in&s;titut&abis;. renu~tia~c.</NOTE> And that with more &s;tudy / more care / with better wyl / and with more dylygence. And with more gladnes of herte &amp; cherefull countenaunce: than yf eche of you dyd werke and laboure for them &s;elfe. For the charyte wherof &s;aynt Paule &s;ayth: doeth in y^e charytable par&s;one: nother &s;eke couet / ne de&s;ire propre auayle
<PB REF="11"> or &s;elfe plea&s;ure: is to be vnder&s;tond / that charyte doeth euer put the co~mune profyte before y^e propre or &s;ynguler profyte / and not the propre or &s;ynguler auau~tage: before the commune welthe. And ther|fore: how moche more you do care for the co~mune welth: rather than for your owne propre or &s;yngu|ler profyte. So muche y^e more (I wyl you knowe) you &s;hall profyte vnto this perfeccyo~ / that is that charyte whiche doeth euer remayne and y^t la&s;teth for euer be rather preferred / and more &s;et by: than the&s;e tra~&s;ytory thynges / which (here in this lyfe) we done v&s;e for nede.<NOTE PLACE="marg">extra de &s;tatu mo|nachoru~. ca. cu~ ad mona&s;te|rium F. prohibe|m&abus; i~ fine.</NOTE> It foloweth therfore as con|uenyent / that yf vnto a relygyous par&s;one a gar|ment or ony thynge els that maye be deputed / or appoynted amonge the co~mune nece&s;&s;aryes vnto the commune v&s;e: be gyuen by theyr parentes or frendes: it &s;hold not be receyued pryuely or &s;ecret|ly / but that it be in the power and wyll of the &s;oue+rane to be put vnto the commune profyte or gyue~ vnto them that hath nede therof. And therfore yf ony of you do hyde and kepe &s;ecrete: ony thynge &s;o gyuen or &s;ende vnto them: let them be co~dempned and iudged as theues / by &s;uche iudgemente as apperteyneth vnto thefte.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para; The &s;yxth chapytre.</HEAD>
<P>LEt your clothes be putte vnto wa&s;&s;hynge whether ye wa&s;&s;he them your &s;elfe: or by other par&s;ones: at the poyntement &amp; wyll of the &s;ouerayne / &amp; not at your owne plea&s;ure. Le&s;t y^e &s;u|perfluous appetite of clene clothes: &s;holde defoule
<PB REF="12"> or make fylthy your inwarde &s;oules. Baynes al&s;o for the body whan nede is vnto the &s;eke par&s;ones: &s;hal not be denyed. But let it be done w^tout grudge and by the cou~&s;ell of phy&s;yke. And that &s;o / that yf the &s;eke wolde not therof: yet &s;hal they (whan the &s;ouerayne commau~deth) do (for theyr helthe) that is to be done. And yet yf the &s;eke par&s;ones wolde coueyte or de&s;yre to haue a bayne / whiche (in ca&s;e) were not expedyent / let not theyr plea&s;ure therin be fulfylled ne done. For (many tymes) y^t thynge that doeth delect and plea&s;e: is iudged or &s;uppo&s;ed profytable / althoughe in dede (moche contrary) it do noy and hurte. Yet notwith&s;tondynge: yf y^e de|&s;ea&s;e be in the body &s;ecrete &amp; not open and knowen than whan the &s;eruauntes of god done affyrme &amp; &s;ay for troth they ben &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e: let them (without ony my&s;tru&s;t) be beleued. And yet for all that: yf there be no certente whether that thynge that the &s;eke par&s;one doeth coueyte or de&s;yre: be expedyment &amp; curatyue or medycynable for the dy&s;a&s;e / let cou~&s;ell be axed of the phy&s;ycyon. And whan &s;o euer ony of you mu&s;t go forth / vnto the bayne or where els is nece&s;&s;arye: they &s;hall be no le&s;&s;e in company than twayne or thre. Nor yet &s;hall tho&s;e par&s;ones that haue nede to go forthe: go with whome they wyl. But with whome the &s;ouerayne &s;hall commau~de and appoynt. The cure kepynge and prouy&s;yon of the &s;eke par&s;ones / whether it be for theyr reco|uery (after &s;ekenes) or by feblenes of nature / or yet of the~ that ben vexed with / feuers / axes / or other dy&s;ea&s;es: &s;hall be commytted and a&s;&s;ygned vnto one certeyne par&s;one / that &s;hall axe of the celarye:
<PB REF="12" MS="y"> what he perceyueth is nedefull vnto euery &s;eke par&s;one. And who &s;o euer ben offycers of y^e celary / of the chambre / or of the library with &s;uche other: let them &s;erue theyr felowes without murmure or grudge. And let the bokes be axed euery day at a certayne houre. For who &s;o be&s;yde the due ap|poynted houre doeth ony axe &s;hall none receyue. But as for your clothy~ge / your ho&s;es al&s;o or &s;hoes and &s;uche other nece&s;&s;aryes: the offycers: vnder who&s;e kepynge they be~: &s;hal not defferre ne make delay to delyuer wha~ nede is. As vnto co~tencyons &s;tryfes or debates: other let none be amonge you / or (at the le&s;t) let them &s;hortly be left. Le&s;t a lytyll wrathe or di&s;plea&s;ure &s;holde growe vnto hattred / &amp; &s;o make of a &s;trawe or mote a blocke or a beame. And &s;o cau&s;e the &s;oule by wyl: to be an homycyde / that is a man&s;leer or manqueller. For &s;o done you rede in holy &s;crypture. Qui odit fratrem &s;uum:<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Ioh~. iij.</NOTE> homicida e&s;t. who &s;o hateth his brother: is an ho|mycyde or manqueller. And yf in pa&s;&s;yon ony of you: by / rebuke / fraude / or vnrelygyons wordes / or yet by vpbraydynge of ony defaute that before was done: &s;holde / greue / hurte / or offende / ony of your felowes: let them remembre and gyue dyly|gence (as &s;one as couenyently they may) by due &s;aty&s;faccyo~ to amende that they dyd amy&s;&s;e. And let the par&s;ones &s;o offende or hurte / without ony rea&s;onynge argumente or rehers: clerely forgyue the defaute and offence. And yf bothe the partyes haue greued or hurte eche other / let the~ holy for|gyue eche other. And y^t for lettynge of your prayer and dyuyne &s;eruyce. whiche prayers: the oftener
<PB REF="13"> you do excerci&s;e: the more holy &s;holde they be. And tho&s;e amonge you: that oftymes ben tempted w^t the &s;pyryte of yre and &s;o ben ha&s;ty &amp; &s;oone angrye: and yet wyll &s;oone be &s;ory therfore &amp; make ha&s;te to axe &amp; haue forgyuenes of them whome they / gre|ued / wronged / or dy&s;plea&s;ed: ben better and more relygyous than ben tho&s;e that wyll not &s;o lyghtly be moued / and yet whan they ben wrothe: wyll be lothe to be inclyned or intreated to concorde and to axe forgyuenes. And yf ony be that wyll not (in &s;uche ca&s;e) axe ony forgyuenes at all / or yet that doeth not axe and requyre it with good wyll and with hole herte and mynde: w^tout rea&s;on or cau&s;e done they byde in y^e mona&s;terye / although they be not ca&s;t out (as they haue de&s;erued) or put awaye therfrome. Therfore beware and kepe your &s;elfe from &s;harpe &amp; greuou&s;e wordes. And yf by chau~ce ony &s;uche wordes: do e&s;cape and pa&s;&s;e your mouth be not lothe w^t the &s;ame mouthe to make the &s;alue or medycyne of amendes: wherwith you made y^e wounde and &s;ore: of the tre&s;pa&s;&s;e and offence.</P>
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<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para; The &s;euenth chapytre</HEAD>
<P>_BVt whan the nece&s;&s;yte or nede of di&s;cyplyne or correccyo~ / for defau|tes and my&s;demeanoure to be re|fourmed: doeth compell you that ben &s;oueraynes to &s;peke harde &amp; &s;harpe wordes / thoughe al&s;o you perceyue your &s;elf / that you haue &s;omwhat exceded and ouerpa&s;&s;ed good maner or
<PB REF="13"> due mea&s;ure therin / yet is it not requyred of you y^t you &s;hall axe forgyuenes of your &s;ubiectes. Le&s;t therby in the opynyon of them that mu&s;t of duete be vnto you &s;ubdued as &s;ubiectes / your auctoryte of gouernaunce and rule &s;holde (by rea&s;on of that precy&s;e ob&s;eruance of mekenes) be dymyny&s;&s;hed letted / or of le&s;&s;e &s;trength. But notwith&s;tondynge you mu&s;te axe forgyuenes of god / lorde &amp; may&s;ter of all. For he knoweth: w^t how grete benyuolence good wyl and kyndenes: you do loue and fauoure them: whom (peradue~ture beyonde due mea&s;ure of iu&s;tyce) you dyd &s;o blame or correcte. But amon+ge you maye be no carnal loue / but all &s;pyrytuall. Vnto your &s;oueraynes: as vnto your parentes / fathers / or mothers / mu&s;t you be lowly obedient. And moche more obedyent mu&s;t you than be vnto your vy&s;ytoure y^t of you all hathe ferther charge. wherfore we &s;traytely co~maunde and charge you that all the&s;e artycles and poyntes: be ob&s;erued &amp; kepte. So that yf ony poynt therof be broken and not done: it be not forgoten ne yet neglyge~tly ouer|pa&s;&s;ed / but that for the amendement correccyon &amp; refourmacion therof: cure / and hede / be gyuen of the &s;ouerayne. For vnto the &s;ouerayn doeth pryn|cypally apperteyne &amp; bylonge: that yf ony thynge do pa&s;&s;e the wyttes lernynge or power of y^e &s;ame &s;oueraynes: he &s;holde &s;hewe it forther vnto the or|dynarye / or vy&s;ytour / y^t hath y^e more large aucto|ryte. And as vnto tho&s;e &s;oueraynes that be gouer+ners and rulers ouer you / let not them iudge ne thynke them &s;elfe happy and welthy: bycau&s;e of y^e power they haue to rule &amp; ordre other par&s;ones / 
<PB REF="14"> but rather for the charyte / &amp; good wyll they haue to do theym &s;eruyce. And therfore &s;hall they in all due honoure and reuerence: be your prelates and aboue you all. And yet in reuerende drede (before our lorde) let them lye pro&s;trate before your feete. And vnto all theyr company: let them of vertue &amp; all good werkes / make them&s;elfe fourme &amp; exam|ple Let them al&s;o blame rebuke and correcte the vnre&s;tfull and be&s;y par&s;ones. And them that ben feynte herted &amp; dredful: let them / conforte / herten / and make bolde. Let them al&s;o take the &s;eke and feble par&s;ones: vnto theyr owne propre cure and charge. And vnto all par&s;ones let the~ be pacyent. Let them al&s;o with good wyll make refourmacio~ and do correccyon / wherby they may be hadde in reuerend feere &amp; drede. And although bothe loue / and drede ben nece&s;&s;ary (yet let them coueyte and de&s;yre: to be amo~ge you more beloued than fered. Euermore remembrynge y^t they &s;hall (before god) re~dre and make an&s;were and a counte for you all. And therfore &s;holde you of duete (by your more lowly obedyence) haue pyte and compa&s;&s;yon / not onely vpon your &s;elfe: but al&s;o vpon them. For the more hygh place &amp; roume they done amonge you bere and occupye: the more ben they in perell and Ieoperdy. &para; Almyghty god therfore graunte y^t you (as very louers of &s;pyrytuall beautye) maye ob&s;erue &amp; kepe all the&s;e commaundementes. And that by your good and holy conuer&s;acyon and de|meanour: you may &s;melle of the odour of chry&s;te. Not as bonde caytyues vnto y^e &s;eruitude or thral|dom of the lawe / but as chyldren: vnder y^e lyberte
<PB REF="14" MS="y"> of grace. And forbycau&s;e y^t you in this lytyll boke may &s;e &amp; beholde your owne &s;elfe as in a myrrour or a gla&s;&s;e / let the &s;ame boke one tyme (at the lee&s;t) in y^e weke be led vnto you. And where you fynde and perceyue: ye haue perfourmed &amp; fulfylled all that herein is wryten / gyue you vnto our lorde y^e gyuer of all goodnes: due pray&s;e &amp; tha~ke therfore. And agayne / where ony of you doeth perceyue / &amp; fynde: they lacke / wante / and haue not done and perfourmed y^e &s;ame / or fayled in ony poynt therof let them be &s;orye for that is pa&s;t: and beware of y^t is to come. Be&s;echyng our lorde theyr defaut may be forgyuen / and they neuer be brought or ledde vnto the con&s;ent of &s;ynne.</P>
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<CLOSER>DEO GRACIAS</CLOSER>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>The &s;ayd wretche of &s;yon Rycharde Whytforde.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>&para; Thus endeth &s;aynt Augu&s;tynes Rule alone. Imprynted at London in the Flete&s;trete at the &s;ygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de worde.</TRAILER>
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<FIGDESC>stars, angels, and children</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>wynkyn woede</HEAD>
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<P>The rule of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne / bothe in latyn and engly&s;&s;he / with two expo&s;icyons. And al&s;o y^e &s;ame rule agayn onely in engly&s;&s;he without latyn or expo&s;icyon.</P>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>saint writing in book with monks praying, with angels, jesus, god, and the holy ghost</FIGDESC>
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<P>&para; The tra~&s;latour doth aduy&s;e &amp; cou~&s;eyll all y^e di&s;ciples of this rule to bere alway one of the&s;e bokes vpo~ them &s;yth they ben &s;o portatyue / &amp; may be had for &s;o &s;mall a pryce.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Vnto the deuoute and gho&s;tly reders.</HEAD>
<P>_IN&s;tau~tly required .vij. yeres ago to tran&s;late this holy rule of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne / out of the latyn into engly&s;&s;he. I (the rather and more lyghtly) dyd grau~t therunto / that I had not before y^t tyme &s;een or herde of ony other tran&s;lacyon / but that was olde / &s;cabrou&s;e / rough / &amp; not of the engly&s;&s;he co|mynly v&s;ed in the&s;e partyes. The latyn we dyd &s;et forth / that yf ony of the reders wolde make collacyon of y^e engly&s;&s;he vnto y^e latyn / or of this / vnto ony other tran&s;lacyon / they myght haue y^e lettre redy at hande. And for bycau&s;e this rule in the orygynall was fyr&s;t wryten vnto women (as doth appere in y^e epy&s;tles of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne. <ABBR>epla.</ABBR> cix.) And now is wryten co|mynly as vnto men in y^e male &s;exe. we haue directed our tra~&s;lacyon indyfferently vnto bothe y^e &s;exes / that is to &s;aye / male &amp; female / men &amp; women. And where in ony place this comyn edicyon doth dyffre from the origynall: we haue noted y^e &s;ame in y^e margende with the&s;e lettres. a. l. id e&s;t alia lr~a. that is / an other lettre. And vnto the texte or lettre of the rule / we haue fyr&s;t &s;et our owne poore mynde for the declaracyon of the &s;ame lettre. Than doth folowe y^e fruytfull expo&s;icyon of y^e holy &s;aynt &amp; grete clerke / &amp; a fader al&s;o &amp; &s;oueray+ne of the &s;ame rule: Hugo de &s;cto~ Victore. whiche we al&s;o dyd tran&s;late out of latyn in to engly&s;&s;he. In all we humbly done &s;ubmytte our &s;elfe vnto correccyon and charytable reformacyon. Be&s;echynge our lorde y^e o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> poore labour (after our mynde) may profyte vnto the laude and pray&s;e of our lorde / the encreace of good relygyon / and of our meryte. Amen.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>&para; The wretche of Syon Rycharde whytforde.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>&para; The expo&s;icyon of &s;aynt Augu&s;tynes rule / after the grete clerke and holy &s;aynt / &s;aynt Hugh called de &s;ancto Victore / a chanon of the &s;ame profe&s;&s;yon / in Parys in the mona&s;tery of &s;aynt Victores. And before is the expo&s;icyon of the tran&s;latour.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para; The fyr&s;t chapytre.</HEAD>
<P>_ANte oi~a fratres chari&s;&s;imi diligatur deus deinde proximus:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xxij</NOTE> quia i&s;ta precepta &s;unt principaliter nobis data. whiche &s;entence we haue thus tra~&s;lated indyfferently vn|to bothe the &s;exes or kyndes / that is to &s;aye / vnto the bretherne and &s;y&s;ters of this &abpro;fe&s;&s;yon.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> Dere beloued religyous frendes / ye mu&s;t before &amp; aboue all thy~ges loue almyghty god. And than y^e neyghbour. For the&s;e co~mau~dementes ben vnto vs pryncypally gyuen.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The ex|po&s;icyon</NOTE> Ye mu&s;t loue god / y^t is to &s;aye / ye ought or &s;holde of duty or ye ben bou~den to loue god / &s;o doth that terme mu&s;t &s;ygnyfye &amp; betoken. We &s;hewed you that we vary in wordes from other tran&s;lacyons / bycau&s;e of y^e liberte whiche we &s;pake of in our preface / but the &s;ente~ce is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll one. For all one is to &s;aye / let god be of you beloued and ye mu&s;t loue god / that the go&s;pell wyll te&s;tyfye / where whan our &s;auyour was a&s;ked whiche was y^e grete&s;t co~mau~dement / he an&s;wered.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xxij</NOTE> Thou mu&s;t loue god. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> Ye mu&s;t here note / that in all this boke of the rule / &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne doth entende to bynde the per|&s;ones of this profe&s;&s;yon / fyr&s;t vnto the nece&s;&s;aryes of theyr &s;aluacyon / that is vnto the co~maundementes / without whiche no per&s;one may be &s;aued / whiche co~+maundementes ben all hooly comprehended in the&s;e twayne / y^t is / to loue god aboue all thynges / &amp; than y^e
<PB REF="17"> neyghbour. For vnto the&s;e we ben bou~de / for they (as he &s;ayth) ben gyuen by god / &amp; pryncypally aboue all co~mau~ded vnto vs. After whiche for theyr ferder me|ryte / he doth bynde them y^t wyll vndertake &amp; profe&s;&s;e this rule / vnto certayn cou~&s;eyles of y^e go&s;pels whiche I haue noted in the margent / &s;pecially fyr&s;t vnto the refu&s;ynge &amp; vtter for&s;akynge of the worlde / &amp; to lyue without propriete in wylfull pouerte / &s;econde to kepe true cha&s;tite / &amp; thyrdly / lowly to be obedient. The pla+ces wha~ we come therunto / we &s;hal &s;hewe. And euer whan we come vnto y^e expo&s;icyon of &s;ay~t Hugh after the texte / his name &s;hall go before as foloweth thus.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The&s;e preceptes &amp; co~mau~dementes that here done folowe / be~ called a rule / bycau&s;e y^t by them a fourme &amp; maner of ryght lyuynge / is vnto vs expre&s;&s;ed. A rule hath that name / bycau&s;e it may ryghtly rule / ryght|ly gouerne / or teche a right. And that thynge that we call a rule / the grekes done call a chanon / wherof all &s;uche &abper;&s;ones ben / after y^e greke name called chanons / that is to &s;ay / reguler per&s;ones / as gadred togyder in a mona&s;tery / lyuynge therin canonycally / &amp; apo&s;toli|cally after y^e reguler preceptes of the holy faders that ordeyned y^e &s;ame. Vnto the whiche reguler per&s;ones is here &s;ayd by &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us. xij. q. j. no~ dicatis.</NOTE> Hec igitur &s;u~t: q~ vt ob&s;eruetis precipimus in mona&s;terio co~&s;tituti. The&s;e artycles &amp; poyntes therfore that en&s;ue &amp; done folowe we co~maunde &amp; charge you / that ben con&s;tytute &amp; or|dred in the mona&s;tery / that ye ob&s;erue and kepe.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The preceptes &amp; co~mau~dementes of god ben redde vnto vs / bycau&s;e we &s;holde vnder&s;tande them. And y^t
<PB N="ij" REF="17"> whan we vnder&s;tande and knowe them / we &s;hold in werke &amp; dede accomply&s;&s;he &amp; fulfyll them. For yf we vnder&s;tande &amp; knowe them / &amp; wyll not fulfyll them / we may drede y^e &s;entence of god / wherin is &s;ayd. The &s;eruau~t y^t knoweth the wyll of his lorde &amp; may&s;ter / &amp; doth it not / &s;hall be beten with many la&s;&s;hes.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Luc.</ABBR> xij.</NOTE> Saynt Paule therfore &s;ayth / that not the herers / but y^e wer+kers &amp; kepers of y^e lawe &s;hall be iu&s;tyfyed before god.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Roma. ij.</NOTE> Let vs therfore here the holy &s;acred preceptes of our moo&s;t pyteous &amp; louynge lorde god / &amp; well remembre his co~mau~dementes / to werke &amp; fulfyll them in dede. For as &s;aynt Iames &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iaco. j.</NOTE> who &s;o loketh &amp; lerneth well the lawe of moo&s;t perfyte liberte / that is y^e lawe of Chry&s;t / &amp; con&s;tau~tly bydeth therin / not as an obly|uyous &amp; forgetfull herer / but as a very werker &amp; ful|fyller therof / that per&s;one in his werke &amp; dede &s;hall be happy &amp; bly&s;&s;ed. And our lord hym&s;elfe &s;ayd in y^e go&s;|pell.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. xj.</NOTE> Ble&s;&s;ed ben they y^t done here the worde of god / &amp; done kepe &amp; perfourme it. wherfore you that ben con|&s;tytute &amp; ordred in y^e mona&s;tery / mekely &amp; lowly take hede vnto the&s;e artycles &amp; poyntes that ben co~maun+ded you.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The text.</NOTE> &para; Fyr&s;t (&s;ayth he) that ye dwell togyder in your hous quietly / re&s;tfully / &amp; be agreable / &amp; accorde togyder in all thynges / &amp; that ye haue in our lord one mynde / one herte / &amp; one wyll. For therunto / &amp; for that purpo&s;e / ye ben gadred togyder in one couent.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The ex|po&s;icyon</NOTE> Now ye mu&s;t here reme~bre chry&s;tyans that I &s;hewed you before / the mynde of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn is / to ordre his di&s;cyples / fyr&s;t vnto y^e loue of god / &amp; than of y^e neygh|bour. But y^e loue of god may neuer be had ne knowen but by the loue of the neyghbour. For he that dayly &s;eeth his neyghbour (&s;ayth y^e apo&s;tle)<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Io. iiij.</NOTE> and loueth not
<PB REF="18"> hym / how &s;holde he loue god / whome he &s;eeth not? it may not be. The loue of god than / begy~neth at y^e loue of the neyghbour / but the loue of the neyghbour can neuer be perfyte / without vnite / peas / &amp; co~corde / and that in god / &s;o that they be of one mynde / byleue all one fayth / of one hert / that is / that eche loue other for god. And therfore &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne here in the lettre doth ordre his di&s;cyples vnto vnite / peas &amp; concorde / wherby they &s;holde come vnto the loue of the neygh|bour / &amp; therby vnto the loue of god. And yet ferther to gete that vnite / peas / co~corde &amp; loue / he ordreth them to haue all temporall thynges in co~mune. For perfyte vnite / perfyte peas / perfyte co~corde / and perfyte loue can neuer be / where is myne / &amp; thyne. For myne and thyne were the fyr&s;t brekers / &s;parplers / &amp; dyuyders of vnite / peas / co~corde / and loue. Wherfore to obteyne and kepe the&s;e vertues / he wyll they haue no thynge propre / no thynge of theyr owne / but all in co~mune / in &s;o moche / that no thynge &s;hall they name / ne call pro|prely theyr owne / as after &s;hall be declared. Now vn+to the texte<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> agayn. Primu~. Propter quod in vnu~ con+gregati e&s;tis:<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. vbi. a. l. in do|minum.</NOTE> vt vnanimes habitetis i~ domo: &amp; &s;it vo|bis cor vnu~ et vna anima in dn~o. Whiche texte after our maner of tran&s;lacyon is reher&s;ed before.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The fyr&s;t monicyon that we haue here / is of that vnite &amp; concorde that is in our lorde god. For that con|corde &amp; agrement y^t is bytwene wretches to do &s;ynne is an euyll &amp; noughty agrement. But the concorde by+twene chri&s;tyans to do well / to do good / to folowe iu|&s;tyce / to &s;erue god / that is a good co~corde / a holy agre|ment. This than is the cau&s;e why and wherfore we
<PB N="iij" REF="18"> ben gadred togyder in one couent / that is to &s;aye that in the &s;eruyce of god we &s;holde haue one &s;piryte / one mynde &amp; wyll. And al&s;o in god haue eche vnto other one herte &amp; one loue. For it is co~uenyent &amp; nece&s;&s;ary / y^t &s;yth we be gadred in one couent bodyly / we &s;hold al|&s;o dwell &amp; byde togyder &s;piritually. For no thynge a|uayleth vs bodyly to be clo&s;ed &amp; holden togyder in one hous / yf we be dy&s;per&s;ed &amp; departed in &s;ondre by dy|uers wylles. For I tell you / god taketh more hede vn+to the vnite &amp; concorde of the mynde &amp; wyll / than of y^e place or man&s;yon. Se now / take hede how amonge relygyous per&s;ones one mynde / one entent &amp; purpo&s;e and one loue in god / &s;holde couple &amp; knytte all in one. In that therfore &s;holde we be of one mynde / one wyll &amp; of one entent to &s;erue god / &amp; to loue god with all our herte &amp; all our &s;oule / and our neyghbour as our &s;elfe. The vertue therfore of concorde is vnto vs nece&s;&s;ary / whiche vertue thus may be had / yf relygyous per&s;o+nes whan they come fyr&s;t vnto y^e mona&s;tery / wyll at the begynnynge robbe them&s;elfe of propre wyll / &amp; fo|lowe our &s;auyour that &s;ayd.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh~. vj. <ABBR>Luc.</ABBR> xxij.</NOTE> I came not to do myne owne wyll. And in an other place. Not as I wyll fa|der (&s;ayth he) but as thou wylt. For that moo&s;t of ony thynge wynneth &amp; maketh co~corde &amp; peas. And that is a grete &s;ygne &amp; token of depe mekenes / wherof obe+dyence is engendred / and charite / peas / iu&s;tyce / with other vertues done therof growe &amp; encreace. For yf I wyll do my wyll / y^u thyne / &amp; he his wyll / there mu&s;t nedes be diui&s;yon / there &s;pryngeth &amp; ary&s;eth &s;tryfe &amp; debate / wrath / enuy / malyce / braulynge &amp; chydynge: whiche ben y^e werkes of y^e fle&s;&s;he.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gala. v.</NOTE> And (as the apo&s;tle &s;ayth) who &s;o co~mytteth &s;uche iniquitees / &s;hal neuer
<PB REF="19"> wynne ne gete the kyngdome of god. In a congrega+cyon &s;ome per&s;ones ben euer ob&s;tynate in theyr owne opinyon / they &s;eme wy&s;e in theyr owne &s;ight / &amp; done &s;tande moche in theyr owne fauour. And loke what they haue ones conceyued in theyr brayne / they wyll defende it as good rea&s;on / &amp; than done they fynde ar|gume~tes &amp; rea&s;ons / &amp; done labour in all they can / not to apply them&s;elfe vnto other per&s;ones / but rather al other vnto theyr mynde &amp; fanta&s;y. And yf they &s;e they can not brynge theyr purpo&s;e to pa&s;&s;e: than ben they anone moued to contencyon / to braule / chyde / rebuke and to trouble all the company. Suche per&s;ones ben comynly di&s;obedient vnto y^e co~mau~dementes of theyr &s;uperyour. For oftentymes in them doth reygne the pa&s;&s;yon of di&s;obedyence &amp; impacyence. The&s;e &abper;&s;ones be not apte to kepe peas / vnite &amp; concorde. For after y^e apo&s;tle Paule / they vany&s;&s;he and renne forth in theyr vnfruytfull thoughtes &amp; fonde ymagynacyons / and theyr foly&s;&s;he herte &amp; mynde is &s;ore blynded.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Roma. j.</NOTE> For we|nynge and &s;ayenge them&s;elfe they be wy&s;e / they ben proued in dede very foles. For pryde is a grete blynd|nes of herte: wherof our moder y^e chirche &s;ayth. A ce|citate cordis libera nos dn~e. From y^e blyndnes of hert good lord delyuer vs. And truly it may be called a gre+te fonde &amp; foly&s;&s;he wy&s;dome / ony per&s;one to preferre them&s;elfe / &amp; wyl to be aboue all other. Syth y^e apo&s;tle &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co. iij.</NOTE> Yf ony per&s;one among you &s;eme wy&s;e / let hym be a fole / that he may be wy&s;e in dede. For y^e wy&s;dom of this worlde / is very foly before god. And after the doctryne of god / it is a grete wy&s;dome for a per&s;one to iudge &amp; thynke them&s;elfe vnder all other / &amp; moo&s;t vn|worthy.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Eccli.</ABBR> iij.</NOTE> The wy&s;e man &s;ayth. The more thou art in
<PB N="iiij" REF="19"> dignite or degre / &s;o moche more make thy &s;elfe lowe / humble &amp; meke.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. ix</NOTE> And our &s;auyour whan his di&s;ciples began to &s;tryue whiche &s;holde be aboue / he anone re|uoked them vnto concorde &amp; humilite / &s;ayenge. Who &s;o of you be moo&s;t of auctorite / &s;hall be your &s;eruaunt. And of hym&s;elfe he &s;ayd.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xx.</NOTE> The &s;one of man came not in to this worlde to be &s;erued / but to do &s;eruyce / and to gyue his lyfe for y^e redempcyon of many per&s;ones / that is to &s;aye / of as many per&s;ones as wyll by true fayth be partyners of his redempcyon. Let vs than that ben relygyous dwell togyder all one in wyll and mynde. For as the p&s;almi&s;t &s;ayth. Ecce &abquam; bonum et &abquam; iocundu~: habitare fratres in vnu~. It is very good &amp; profytable vnto the partyes / &amp; moche plea&s;aunt vnto our lorde god / whan a relygyous couent doth byde &amp; dwell all one in herte and mynde. For (I tell you) our fa&s;tynge / prayer / and all our &s;acrefyce / doth not &s;o mo+che plea&s;e god / as our vnite / loue and concorde. For he &s;ayd. yf thou wylte do &s;acrefyce / go fyr&s;t &amp; be recon&s;y+led vnto thy chry&s;tyan broder / and than retourne and make thyne oblacyon. By the whiche wordes may playnly appere / that who &s;o hath not peace and con|corde / may in no wy&s;e do vnto almyghty god due and worthy &s;acrefyce. We &s;holde therfore depely wey and con&s;ydre / how grete &amp; worthy the vertue of concorde is before almyghty god / without whiche our holy &s;a+crefyce no thynge plea&s;eth hym. For whan we come fyr&s;t vnto relygyon / we done entrepry&s;e &amp; take vpon vs / to wage batayle and make open warre with the deuyll. And no thynge he fereth &s;o moche / as y^e vnite and concorde of charite. For yf we di&s;trybute and dele in almes all that we haue / he no thynge dredeth that
<PB REF="20"> ne fereth it / for he hath no thy~ge hym&s;elfe. Yf we fa&s;te and wake neuer &s;o moche / he careth not therfore / for he neuer etes / dry~kes / ne &s;lepes. But yf we be coupled and knytte togyder by loue and charite / that he fereth that he dredeth / than he quaketh. For than kepe we vpon erth / that he de&s;py&s;ed &amp; lo&s;t in heuen. Therfore is our holy moder the chirche de&s;cribed terryble &amp; fere+full lyke vnto y^e front or vowarde of an ordred batayle.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Cant.</ABBR> vj.</NOTE> For lyke as the enemyes done drede &amp; fere / whan they &s;e the front of the batayle well ordred / well ioyned and apoynted / &s;o (&s;urely) doth the deuyll &s;hake for drede / whan he perceyueth that &s;pirytuall per&s;ones ben well armed with the harneys of vertue / &amp; well ordred / and &s;tycke fa&s;t togyder by vnite / peas / and concorde. And than doth he moche wayle and mourne / whan he can not by di&s;corde dyuyde them in &s;ondre. Therfore it is wryten of our lorde.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;al. lxxv.</NOTE> Factus e&s;t in pace locus eius. His dwellyng place is made in peace. And it foloweth in the &s;ame place. Ibi confregit potentias / arcu~ / &s;cus tum / gladiu~ et bellum. That is to &s;aye / there amonge &s;pirytuall per&s;ones / peace hath broken the powers of wycked &s;pirytes / and de&s;troyed theyr bowe / bukler / &s;werde and batayle / that is to &s;aye / all the army of the deuyll / his crafty wyles / deceytes &amp; fal&s;hede / and al&s;o all his batayle and furyous a&s;&s;ayles. Wherby appe|reth that vnite / peace / and concorde / done de&s;troye all the army and powers of the deuyll. There foloweth the texte<NOTE PLACE="marg">The text.</NOTE> of the rule. Et &s;it vobis cor vnum / et anima vna in domino. That is to &s;aye. And haue ye in our lorde one herte / one wyll / and one mynde. For it &s;uffy|&s;eth not that relygyous per&s;ones kepe vnite / peace / &amp; concorde eche vnto other in theyr maners &amp; outwarde
<PB N="v" REF="20"> conuer&s;acyon (for &s;o done many for drede of puny&s;&s;he|ment / many for carnall affinite or affeccyon) but al&s;o it mu&s;t be inwarde in the herte / without feynynge. And that for god and in god.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The&s;e ben the fyr&s;t / tendre / moo&s;t delycate / &amp; moo&s;t plea&s;aunt fruytes of the &s;piryte / whiche in the begyn|nynge of our relygyon / we &s;holde offre vnto almygh|ty god. So ben we co~mau~ded by the boke of &s;apyence and wy&s;dome / &s;ayenge. Chylde gyue me thyne herte.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. xxii</NOTE> For we ben fyr&s;t drawen vnto god in our herte &amp; wyll. Yf than we ben perfytly departed from the worlde in our bodyes / let vs in herte and mynde be ioyned and knytte vnto our lorde god. So that we may truly &s;aye with the prophete. Mihi aute~ adherere deo bonu~ e&s;t.<NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al. lxxij</NOTE> It is euer be&s;t for me to clyue and &s;tycke fa&s;t vnto al|myghty god.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. co&abrum;. vj.</NOTE> For (as the apo&s;tle &s;ayth) who &s;o cly|ueth and &s;tycketh fa&s;t to god / and con&s;tauntly dwel|leth in hym / is with hym one &s;piryte. Let vs than clyue &s;tyll and byde con&s;tauntly in our lorde / that we may agayne &s;aye with the prophete.<NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al. lxij.</NOTE> Adhe&s;it ani|ma mea po&s;t te. My &s;oule and mynde good lorde hath perfytly clyued and con&s;tauntly byden by thy wayes and commaundementes. Charite dothe departe vs from the worlde / and perfytly ioyne and knytte vs vnto our lorde. Soo than &s;hall we haue in god one herte and one mynde / yf we with all our herte / and all our mynde loue almyghty god. For god is cha|rite / and who &s;o bydeth in charite / bydeth in god / and god in hym. And bycau&s;e that charite in true relygyous per&s;ones dothe neuer &s;tudy for &s;elfe plea|&s;ure ne profyte / conuenyently foloweth in the lettre.
<PB REF="21"> Et no~ dicatis aliquid &abpro;priu~:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of wylfull <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ouerte. ii. q. i. dile|ti&s;&s;imis. Tex. et no~ di. Ca&s;&s;ia&abus; lib. iii. de i~&s;titut. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">en&s;iciantiu~. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">a. xiii.</NOTE> &s;ed &s;int vobis oi~a co~mu+nia. That is. And that ye neyther name ne call ony thynge proprely your owne / but y^t all thynge be vnto you co~mune. Before we &s;hewed you how the mynde of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne was to ordre y^e di&s;cyples of this rule vnto almyghty god / &amp; that in more precy&s;e &amp; perfyte maner / than the co~mune &amp; nece&s;&s;ary waye. For (as I &s;ayd) aboue the nece&s;&s;ary co~maundementes / without whiche no per&s;one may be &s;aued / he wold bynde them vnto certayne of the cou~&s;eyles of y^e go&s;pelles. wherof the fyr&s;t is of wylfull pouerte / contrary vnto propriete Wherof our &s;auyour &s;ayd.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xix.</NOTE> Si vis &abper;fectus e&s;&s;e: vade et vende oi~a que po&s;&s;ides: et &s;equere me. Yf thou wylte be perfyte (&s;ayth Chry&s;t) go thy way / for&s;ake y^e worlde and &s;ell all that thou ha&s;t. Take money / &s;pirytuall tre+&s;our / for all thy~ges temporall. And than folowe me in the path of penaunce by wylfull pouerte / &amp; no thynge haue in proprete / no ne yet ony thy~ge name or call pro|prely thyne owne / but that all be co~mune. Note this well good frende / yf to name ony thynge your owne be agayn&s;t your &abpro;fe&s;&s;yon / what is it than to haue / kepe or retayne ony thynge as your owne. Thynke therfore no thynge your owne / not &s;o moche as the clothes ye were / for of them &amp; of all other moo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary thy~ges haue ye but onely the v&s;e / &amp; yet that v&s;e vncertayn / at the wyll euer of your &s;ouerayne. But bycau&s;e I haue wryten hereof more largely in the &s;econde parte of our boke made of the .iij. e&s;&s;encyalles of religyon / I leue of and ye &s;hall now here the holy &amp; ble&s;&s;ed fader &s;peke.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; We &s;holde haue no thy~ge &abpro;pre / ne ony thy~ge name or call myne or thyne but &s;ynne / of all other thynges
<PB N="vj" REF="21"> we mu&s;t &s;aye ours / as our cote / our bedde / our boke / our hande / our body / our wyll / &amp; &s;o of all other thyn|ges / excepte (as I &s;ayd) &s;ynne / &amp; excepte our carnall parentes &amp; kynne / as my fader / my moder / &s;y&s;ter / bro+der / vncle / co&s;yn. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> of the whiche thynges we may &s;aye myne &amp; thyne / as my &s;ynne / my fader. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> Here now may ye &abper;ceyue / how grete differe~ce is bytwene carnall frendes &amp; &s;pirytuall frendes. For the carnall frendes done diuyde &amp; departe in to propriete / all that before was co~mune. For all thynges were fyr&s;t com|mune. And the &s;pirituall frendes done put in co~mune that before was diuyde / for before euery per&s;one w^t|out y^e mona&s;tery had theyr owne parte. The carnall per&s;ones done &s;eke / care &amp; &s;tudy for theyr owne &s;ingu+ler profyte / but the &s;pirytuall per&s;ones &s;eke not theyr owne profyte ne plea&s;ure / but the co~mune profyte / &amp; what may plea&s;e our &s;auyour Ie&s;u. This &s;pirytuall kynrede &amp; frend&s;hyp therfore doth more auayle &amp; pro|fyte than y^e carnall. For y^e carnall frend&s;hyp euer feyn|teth / fayleth &amp; decayeth. And the &s;pirytuall groweth euer &amp; encrea&s;eth. The carnall hath no thynge but di|ui&s;yon &amp; vncertaynte / &amp; y^e &s;pirytuall hath vnite &amp; &s;ure certaynte. The carnal fren&s;hyp pa&s;&s;eth w^t the worlde and y^e &s;pirytual remayneth &amp; bydeth for euer. For the &s;pirytuall relygyous per&s;ones done here lyue &amp; byde togyder in one hous &amp; one couent / that hereafter they may dwell togyder in y^e kyngdome of heuen.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Io. iij.</NOTE> We ben (&s;ayth y^e apo&s;tle) for this tyme pre&s;ent y^e childer of god but yet it appereth not what we &s;hall be. We knowe well (&s;ayth he) y^t whan our &s;auyour &s;hal come vnto y^e la&s;t iudgement / we &s;hall be lyke vnto hym. For than &s;hall we &s;e hym as he is.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. xiij</NOTE> And &s;aynt Paule &s;ayth / we
<PB REF="22"> haue here no cyte / no dwelly~g place / but we done &s;eke &amp; labour to haue y^e euerla&s;ty~ge home. Therfore &s;holde religyous &abper;&s;ones haue here no thynge propre / but all co~mune. Men in this world done make partyes / and done gader &s;ub&s;tau~ce / &s;ome golde &amp; &s;yluer / &s;ome hous &amp; lande / &s;ome corne &amp; catell / &s;ome a grete name / grete power &amp; po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yons / grete glory / laude &amp; pray&s;e / one geteth one thynge / an other an other thynge / dyuer&s;e &abper;&s;ones dyuer&s;ly after theyr appetyte. But y^e porcyon and parte / the londe &amp; lyuelode of them y^t ben true reli+gyous &abper;&s;ones / is god hy~&s;elfe our &s;auyour Chry&s;t Ie+&s;u. Yf we than wyll haue this parte / yf we wyl haue our lorde god for our londe / our lyuelode / our enhery|tau~ce / we mu&s;t rendre our &s;elfe &s;uche &abper;&s;ones in al con+d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cyons as may be able &amp; worthy to haue &s;uche po&s;&s;e&s;+&s;yon / &amp; al&s;o to be had of hym in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon. Yf than we wyll for our enherytau~ce haue our lorde in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon we mu&s;t haue no thy~ge but god / no thynge w^tout hy~. For he &s;uffy&s;eth &amp; is ynough for vs. What &abper;&s;one is &s;o couetous y^t can not be co~tent w^t god? And yf we &s;eke &amp; de&s;yre ony thynge els / as golde / &s;yluer / po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yons &amp; ryche&s;&s;e / god wyl di&s;deyne to be a parte amo~ge &s;uche partes / for god wyl haue no party felowes / nor yet be a porcyon amonge other partes / he wyl haue all / &amp; be had alone.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ierony.</NOTE> I wyl not (&s;ayth &s;aynt Ierom) haue myn enherytau~ce / as a parte amo~ge other worldly &abper;&s;ones but as y^e pree&s;tes &amp; leuytes of y^e olde lawe. I am con|tent to lyue vpon y^e tythes &amp; offry~ges of y^e aulter / &amp; to &s;erue our lorde god. yf I haue (&s;ayth he) fode and clo|thynge / I w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll be therw^t content / &amp; all naked / poore &amp; bare w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll I folowe the bare &amp; naked cro&s;&s;e of Chry&s;t. For bly&s;&s;ed ben tho&s;e &abper;&s;ones (&s;ayth y^e go&s;pell)<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. v.</NOTE> that ben poore in &s;piryte that ben poore for y^e holy gho&s;t / &amp; for y^e
<PB N="vij" REF="22"> loue of god / for the kyngdome of heuen is theyr ryght enheritau~ce. And bycau&s;e y^t as longe as we be in this bodyly lyf / we mu&s;t nedes haue y^t is nece&s;&s;ary for the &s;ame / there folowes in y^e text.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The tex<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> xij. q. j. n<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> dicatis.</NOTE> At <ABBR>di&s;tribuat</ABBR> vnicui&abque; ve&s;tru~ a &abpre;po&s;ito vr~o / vict&abus; &amp; tegumentu~. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> That is. Al&s;o your mete / dry~ke &amp; clothynge / &amp; all other nece&s;&s;a|ryes / &s;hall be di&s;tributed / diuided or a&s;&s;igned vnto eue+ryche of you by your &s;ouerayn. Before we &s;hewed you how &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn excludynge all propriete / dothe ordre all y^e di&s;ciples of this rule to lyue all hooly in co~|mune / whiche here he declareth. For yf we may haue no &abpro;priete of tho&s;e thy~ges nece&s;&s;ary / w^tout whiche we can not lyue in this worlde / moche more it foloweth y^t no thynge we may haue &abpro;pre w^tout whiche we may lyue. But here appereth that we may not take mete / drynke / clothes / ne ony other nece&s;&s;aryes at our wyl / but by y^e apoyntment of our &s;ouerayn. So is y^e lettre. Your mete drynke / clothynge / &amp; all other nece&s;&s;aryes &s;hall be delyuered / diuyded / a&s;&s;igned or appoynted vn+to eueryche of you by your heed and &s;ouerayne.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Our lord &amp; &s;auyour wold his chirche &s;hold &s;o be or|dred / y^t &s;ome &s;hold be applyed hooly vnto &s;pu~alitees / &amp; other &s;ome &s;holde miny&s;tre vnto them te~poralitees / &amp; therfore he wold haue &s;ome &abper;&s;ones &s;ouerayns / &amp; &s;om to be &s;ubiectes. The office of y^e &s;ouerayns is to miny|&s;tre vnto y^e &s;ubiectes thy~ges te~porall. And y^e duty of y^e &s;ubiectes is to be dilige~t in y^e &s;eruyce of god / &amp; in thyn|ges &s;pu~all / as in redyng / prayeng / &s;yngy~ge &amp; co~te~pla+cion / &amp; &s;o in p&s;almes / ympnes &amp; &s;pu~al melody to &s;erue &amp; plea&s;e almighty god. And therfore the more they be di&s;charged of te~porall care &amp; be&s;ynes / y^e more ben they
<PB REF="23"> bou~de to &s;erue god in purete of lyf / it is therfore ordey+ned by our lorde / that &s;uche per&s;ones as done &s;eruyce in the chirche / &s;holde lyue by y^e goodes of the chirche. For (as he &s;ayd hym&s;elfe) the labourer is worthy his hyre or wages.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Luc.</ABBR> x.</NOTE> Wherfore yf we lyue of y^e patrimony and proui&s;yon of Chry&s;t / it is ryght &amp; iu&s;t that we la|bour in y^e &s;eruyce of Chry&s;t. And tha~ done we receyue worthely our wages / yf we fyr&s;t do well &amp; truly our labour / therfore &s;aynt Paule &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">the&s;&s;. iij.</NOTE> Who &s;o wyll not labour / let hy~ haue no mete ne wages. For yf we ete &amp; dry~ke &amp; take wages / &amp; do no labour therfore / we &s;hall &s;o moche y^e more be gylty &amp; &s;ynful / y^t we vnworthely &amp; without de&s;eruynge done receyue y^e benefytes of god. It is nece&s;&s;ary therfore we &s;erue hy~ truly of whome we ben fou~de &amp; done take our wages / yf w^tout ieoper|dy of our &s;oules we wyll receyue / y^t by our &s;ouerayne is di&s;trybuted &amp; gyuen amonge vs. And al&s;o y^t we be &s;o moche y^e more diligent in his &s;eruyce / y^t we receyue and haue w^tout grete labours that we nede. For what meruayle is it / though &s;uche &abper;&s;ones as ben occupyed in te~porall be&s;ynes / ben moche carefull of theyr lyfe / &amp; in drede of co~&s;cyence / whan by theyr thoughtes wor|des or werkes they offend god. For y^e cu&s;tome &amp; v&s;e of the worlde wyl drawe people / &amp; that &s;ometyme in ma+ner agayn&s;t theyr wyl &amp; mynde vnto &s;ynne &amp; offence. But religyous per&s;ones that haue not that be&s;ynes / ne &s;uche occa&s;yon to &s;ynne / yf they lyue not more wa|rely / and be / after theyr name / more religyous &amp; ver|tuous: &s;urely they &s;hall moche more greuou&s;ly offend god than y^e other / &amp; not w^tout grete ieopardy of theyr &s;oules &s;hall they offend in &s;mall fautes &amp; neclygences wherin y^e other worldly per&s;ones ben excu&s;able. Let
<PB N="viij" REF="23"> vs therfore depely wey and co~&s;yder wherfore &amp; vnto what entent / fode &amp; clothynge is myny&s;tred vnto vs / that is / y^t we fyr&s;t &amp; princypally &s;holde &s;eke &amp; de&s;yred y^e kyngdome of god / &amp; than ben the&s;e temporall nece&s;&s;a|ryes iu&s;tly di&s;tributed &amp; mini&s;tred vnto vs.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. v<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></NOTE> How this fode &amp; clothynge w^t other nece&s;&s;aryes &s;holde be myni|&s;tred vnto vs / foloweth in y^e lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The text</NOTE> Non equaliter <ABBR EXPAN="omnibus">oi|bus</ABBR>: <ABBR EXPAN="quia">qi</ABBR> non equaliter valetis oe~s: &s;ed potius vnicui&abque; prout cui&abque; opus fuerit. That is to &s;aye. Not equally or of lyke porcyon vnto all per&s;ones / for ye be not all of lyke myght &amp; &s;trength. But &s;o rather be it di&s;tributed &amp; diuided vnto euery per&s;one / as vnto eueryche is ne|ce&s;&s;ary or nedefull. Where before he &s;ayd y^t all nece&s;&s;a|ryes &s;holde be diuyded / &amp; delyuered vnto y^e co~pany by the &s;ouerayne. Here he &s;heweth vnder what fourme that diui&s;yon &amp; delyuerau~ce &s;hold be / that is to &s;aye / y^t neyther y^e &s;oueraynes &s;holde be parcyall to gyue after theyr affeccyon / ne yet the &s;ubiectes ony thynge to re|ceyue after theyr owne plea&s;ure or &s;uperfluous appe+tyte / but y^t the di&s;crecyon of the &s;ouerayne do perceyue what is very &amp; vnfeyned nede vnto y^e &s;ubiectes / after the naturall &s;trength of euery &abper;&s;one / &amp; therafter gyue them y^t is nece&s;&s;ary. For y^e whiche rea&s;on &s;aynt Augu+&s;tyne bryngeth auctorite of holy &s;crypture / &s;ayenge. Sic eni~ legitis in actib&abus; <ABBR EXPAN="apostolorum">aplo&abrum;</ABBR>:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. ij.</NOTE> quia era~t illis oi~a coi~a et di&s;tribuebat&abur; vnicui&abque; op&abus; erat. That is to &s;aye.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> For &s;o it is redde in y^e actes of y^e apo&s;tles / that thynges all were vnto them co~mune / and vnto eue|ryche was dy&s;trybuted as vnto eueryche was nede|full. Now foloweth vpon this la&s;t clau&s;e y^e auctour.</P>
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<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; This clau&s;e y^t vnto eueryche was gyuen that was nedefull / is not &s;o to be take~ ne vnder&s;tande / y^t vnto re+ligyous
<PB REF="24"> per&s;ones &s;holde be gyuen that is nece&s;&s;ary in &s;uche habou~dau~ce &amp; plente / that in no wy&s;e they &s;hold haue ony maner nede / but rather to co~&s;erue the body with &s;ome payne &amp; penau~ce to &s;erue the &s;oule. For all though it be wryten in the &s;ayd actes of the apo&s;tles / that amonge them was no &abper;&s;one nedy / yet we fynde wryten of y^e holy apo&s;tles / that they dyd &s;eruyce vn|to our lorde / in hongre / thur&s;t / colde / &amp; other inco~mo|dytees. wherof we may take / y^t many per&s;ones haue more nede in theyr body than in theyr &s;oule or wyll / as &s;uche per&s;ones as for y^e loue of god haue for&s;aken them&s;elfe / and with all the myght and &s;trength they can / done al&s;o deny and for&s;ake theyr owne naturall di&s;po&s;icyon for the loue of god. whiche loue (as &s;crip|ture &s;ayth) is as &s;tronge as deth / &amp; doth not all onely &s;lake and quenche vnlawfull de&s;yres / but al&s;o often|tymes the naturall di&s;po&s;icyons of y^e body / and natu|rall affeccyons.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Cant.</ABBR> viij</NOTE> For in y^e fyr&s;t begynnynge of the chir|che / chry&s;tyans were not onely content to haue &s;mall &s;ub&s;tau~ce / &amp; to lyue with a lytell / but al&s;o that (by the haboundaunce of &s;pirytuall grace) they accounted for grete&s;t ryche&s;&s;e that they had no thynge. Good lorde frendes (now I &s;peke my &s;elfe) who &s;o wold now a dayes thynke grete ryche&s;&s;e no thynge to haue?<NOTE PLACE="marg">the tra~la+tour.</NOTE> and yet in very trouth that is the moo&s;t haboundau~t ry|che&s;&s;e. For no thynge to haue is as moche to &s;aye / as no thynge to wyll / ne de&s;yre to haue in propriete / but without care / thought or be&s;ynes to lyue (as we do) by y^e proui&s;ion of charite.<NOTE PLACE="marg">ij. Co. vj.</NOTE> For as &s;cripture &s;ayth (now &s;peketh &s;aynt Hugh agayne) the holy apo&s;tles lyued as hauynge noo thynge / and po&s;&s;edynge all / that is to &s;aye / noo thynge reteynynge in propriete / and yet
<PB N="ix" REF="24"> as lordes and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yoners of all the goodes and lon|des of chry&s;tyans.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Act.</ABBR> ij.</NOTE> For (as &s;cripture recordeth) they dyuyded and dy&s;trybuted after theyr di&s;crecyon vnto euery per&s;one / &s;o that no thynge to haue is grete&s;t ry+che&s;&s;e. In the boke of Thoby is wryten.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tobie. v.</NOTE> Sufficiebat nobis paupertas no&s;tra: vt diuitie computarentur. That is. Our pouerte was &s;uffycyent and ynough for vs / to accounte for grete ryche&s;&s;e.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Textus. Pauli habet pietas .i. cult&abus; dei <ABBR>vl</ABBR> religio in q~b&abus; <ABBR>i~cludit</ABBR> pauptas. j. Tim~. vj</NOTE> And the apo&s;tle &s;aythe. Peuerte with &s;uffycyency is a grete gaynes or wynnynge. Therfore yf we haue (&s;ayth he) fode and clothynge / we ben content / but in fode and clo|thynge we &s;holde not regarde the wyll of our car|nall appetyte / but the &s;trengthe of our nature. For oftentymes the carnall appetyte de&s;yreth more than is nece&s;&s;ary. Wherfore in that is &s;ayd in the rule / that vnto euery per&s;one be gyuen that is nede / a meane mu&s;t be kepte that the body may &s;o be noury&s;&s;hed / that he may do his duty / and yet be &s;o repre&s;&s;ed and kepte vnder / that he rebell not agayn&s;t the &s;oule / let nature haue that is nece&s;&s;ary / euer auoydynge all &s;u|perfluite. There foloweth now in the rule.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The text.</NOTE> Qui ve|ro aliquid habeba~t in &s;eculo / quando ingre&s;&s;i &s;unt mo+na&s;terium: libenter velint illud e&s;&s;e commune. That is. And &s;uche per&s;ones as in the worlde whan they entred religyon had ony &s;ub&s;tau~ce of worldly goodes let them gladly wyll / and be content it be commune. That &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne &s;pake / for the opynyon and mynde of certayne per&s;ones / that wolde thynke and &s;uppo&s;e / that all though they myght haue noo pro|priete in tho&s;e goodes that they founde in the mo|na&s;tery / yet wolde they thynke as good rea&s;on / they myght enioye &amp; v&s;e at theyr owne wyll and plea&s;ure
<PB REF="25"> &s;uche goodes as they brought in w^t them / but y^t &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne wyll not in ony wy&s;e / &amp; therfore who &s;o wold &s;o do / &s;hold in very dede be &abpro;prietaryes / &amp; &s;o (af|ter &s;ome doctours) accur&s;ed. Now here y^e expo&s;icio~ of</P>
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<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; They that in y^e worlde had goodes / let them glad|ly be content they be co~mune. So dyd the chry&s;tyans in y^e begy~nynge of Chry&s;tes chirche / for it &s;emed vnto them rea&s;onable / y^t &s;yth they had grace of our lorde in co~mune / theyr worldly goodes &amp; &s;ub&s;tau~ce &s;holde al&s;o be co~mune / &amp; whyle they had one &s;piryte of god / they &s;hold haue one co~mune pur&s;e &amp; one expe~&s;es. And that terme gladly / was well put in y^t place. For almyghty god loueth a glad gyuer / a free &amp; wyllynge herte.<NOTE PLACE="marg">ij. Co. ix.</NOTE> we &s;hold therfore gladly gyue worldly goodes / to wynne therby cele&s;tyal &amp; heuenly tre&s;our. For y^e kyngdom of heuen is worth no more tha~ ye haue to gyue therfore No thynge than is better chepe to be bought / ne ony thynge &s;o dere &amp; precyous wha~ it is had. Two thyn|ges than we mu&s;t leue &amp; for&s;ake for our lorde / that is to &s;ay / y^e po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon of worldly goodes / &amp; y^e wyll / appe+tyte or de&s;yre to haue ony &s;uche po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yo~. wherof our &s;auyour &s;ayd in y^e go&s;pel.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xix.</NOTE> who &s;o for&s;aketh not al y^t he hath in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon / may not be my di&s;cyple. And this apperteyneth vnto worldly &s;ub&s;taunce. In an other place he &s;ayd al&s;o.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Lac.</ABBR> ix.</NOTE> Who &s;o wyll come after me / &amp; fo|lowe my lyf / let hym deny and for&s;ake hym&s;elfe. And this apperteyneth vnto the wyll. For it &s;uffy&s;eth not to leue the outwarde goodes &amp; worldy &s;ub&s;tau~ce / ex|cepte we al&s;o leue all co~cupy&s;cence / appetyte / and de|&s;yre therof. And therfore &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne &s;ayd fer|ther in the rule whan he had enioyned that all theyr
<PB N="x" REF="25"> &s;ub&s;tau~ce worldly &s;holde be co~mune.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The text.</NOTE> And &s;uche per&s;o|nes (&s;ayth he) as in y^e worlde had none &s;uche &s;ub&s;tau~ce let not them &s;eke ne de&s;yre in the mona&s;tery / that they had not / ne were of power to haue without in y^e world. So is the lettre. Qui aute~ non habeba~t: non ea que|rant in mona&s;terio: que nec foris habere potuerunt. Wherin ye may perceyue / that not onely &s;aynt Augu|&s;tyne doth depryue his di&s;cyples / and take from them all propriete / but al&s;o he techeth them to be content w^t that they fynde / without ferther &s;ekynge of curio&s;ite. For (doubtles) many y^t haue ben full poorely brought vp / whan they come to plenty / wyll be more curyous than the other of greter byrthe. How be it after</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>Be they neuer &s;o poore in y^e worlde without / yet haue they within the mona&s;tery / that (for our lorde) they may for&s;ake / that is / the appetyte / wyll &amp; de&s;yre / ony thynge to haue. Scripture therfore commaundeth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exo. xx. Rom~. vij. xiij.</NOTE> Non concupi&s;ces. That is / that we &s;hall no thynge coueyte ne de&s;yre. For our lorde regardeth more the af|fecte &amp; de&s;yre of the herte / than the goodes. So &s;ayth he be the wy&s;e man. Fili / da mihi cor tuum.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. xxiij.</NOTE> Chylde (&s;ayth he) gyue me onely thy herte &amp; good wyll / &amp; that &s;uffy&s;eth me. Whiche truly can not be / excepte the car+nall appetyte be fyr&s;t put awaye &amp; quenched. For the fle&s;&s;he &amp; the &s;piryte can not dwell bothe togyder in one herte. Fyr&s;t therfore we ben co~mau~ded to leue and for|&s;ake all that we haue. And &s;econde to for&s;ake al&s;o all y^t we myght haue / &amp; neyther to &s;eke ne de&s;yre ony thy~ge erthly / that &s;o we than may at more lyberty labour for tho thynges that ben heuenly. And therfore lee&s;t &s;uche per&s;ones as from y^e pouerty of the worlde / haue
<PB REF="26"> come to &s;erue god in the mona&s;tery / &s;holde be de&s;py&s;ed and yet haue that were nece&s;&s;ary / there foloweth in the rule.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The text. a. l. pau|peries.</NOTE> Sed tamen eoru~ infirmitati quod opus e&s;t tribuatur / etiam &s;i pau&abper;tas eoru~ quando foris erant: nec ip&s;a nece&s;&s;aria poterat inuenire. That is. But not with&s;tandynge / that is nece&s;&s;ary or nedefull for them let them haue / all though whan they were abrode / they were &s;o poore / that they coude not gete that was nece&s;&s;ary. Here ye may &s;e / that all though &s;aynt Au|gu&s;tyne forbade the poore comers vnto the mona&s;te|ry / to a&s;ke or de&s;yre therin ony &s;uperfluyte / yet wolde he they &s;holde haue that were nece&s;&s;ary.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Wheder they be ryche / wheder they be poore / whe|der they be of hygh lynage / or of lowe byrthe / who &s;o euer come to religyon to &s;erue our lorde / it is good rea+&s;on they lyue vpon the patrimony &amp; proui&s;yon of our lorde. For the labourer is worthy his wages. Yet for all that (&s;ayth the rule).<NOTE PLACE="marg">The text.</NOTE> Non tame~ ideo &s;e putent e&s;&s;e felices: quia inuenerunt victu~ et tegumentu~ / quale fo|ris habere non potera~t. Nec erigant ceruice~ / quia &s;o|ciantur eis / ad quos foris accedere non audebant: &s;ed &s;ur&s;um cor habea~t / et terrena vana no~ querant / ne in|cipiant e&s;&s;e mona&s;teria diuitibus vtilia / non pauperi|bus.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. bona</NOTE> Si diuites illic humiliantur / &amp; pauperes illic in|flantur. Whiche artycle we thus engly&s;&s;he / all though the poore as well as the ryche beynge in the mona&s;te|ry &s;holde haue that were nece&s;&s;ary. Yet (&s;ayth y^e rule) let not the poore thynke ne &s;uppo&s;e they be more hap|py and better at ea&s;e / <NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> bycau&s;e they haue in the mona|&s;tery fode and clothynge / that is to &s;aye / all maner of bodyly fyndyng / &s;uche as without they were not able
<PB N="xj" REF="26"> ne of power to haue.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a &abpro;uerbe</NOTE> Ne yet let them &s;tretche out the necke / holde vp the cherubyn and countenaunce / nor bere them&s;elfe the more hawte or hygh by proude and malaperte behauyour / bycau&s;e they now be accom|panyed as felowes with them / vnto who&s;e pre&s;ence whan they were without / they dur&s;t not approche / ne pre&s;ume therunto. But rather let them lyfte vp theyr herte &amp; mynde vnto &s;pirytuall thynges / and neyther &s;eke ne de&s;yre the vayne &amp; tran&s;ytory thynges of this worlde / le&s;t by that meane / mona&s;teryes and places of relygyon &s;holde more auauntage &amp; profyte the poore per&s;ones than the ryche. Yf the ryche per&s;ones were therin made poore &amp; lowe / and the poore bolne / &s;welled and reared vp by pryde. For &s;o they that before were poore / and lyued in labour &amp; penury / &s;holde by the mo|na&s;tery be ryche / and lyue at ea&s;e &amp; plea&s;ure / and con|trary / &s;uche as before had plenty with honour / &s;holde be made lowe by penury and reprofe. Take hede fren|des what &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne &s;ayth. For all though he wolde the poore &s;holde want no thynge / yet wolde he not they &s;holde put theyr felicite therin / as many do / that &s;et more by y^e &s;urety of bodyly thynges / than of y^e &s;urete of theyr &s;oules. And many y^e in pouerte were full meke and lowe / curteys / gentyl &amp; diligent / whan they come to plente &amp; &s;urete therof / wyll be hawte &amp; hygh / curry&s;&s;he &amp; crabby&s;&s;he / &amp; nought wyll do / but y^t they mu&s;t nede / &amp; that w^t an euyl wyl / &amp; &s;o where before they were as beggers / now they play y^e lordes &amp; &s;tates &amp; loke not onely to be felowes / but rather mai&s;ters &amp; &s;u&abper;iours vnto them y^t before had better &s;eruau~tes. That poynt there / is notable vnto who&s;e &abpre;&s;ence they dur&s;t not pre|&s;ume. Perceyue there frendes in how grete reuerence
<PB REF="27"> and honour relygyous per&s;ones were had in the olde tyme / &s;yth vnto theyr pre&s;ence y^t ley &amp; com~mune people dur&s;t not come. Wherfore &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne excludy~ge from them &s;uperfluous appetyte / ordreth them vnto the profyte of the &s;oule / &s;ayenge. Let them haue theyr hertes vpwarde vnto thynges &s;pirytuall / &s;o that all theyr mynde and de&s;yre be gho&s;tly. And they neyther &s;eke ne de&s;yre the vayne &s;uperfluytees &amp; plea&s;ures of the worlde / le&s;t by that meanes / that is to &s;aye / by the de&s;yre &amp; po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon of erthly thynges / the place of &s;pi|rytuall profyte &s;holde be turned vnto bodyly plea&s;ure.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; For many &abper;&s;ones done for&s;ake the worlde / or rather done &s;eme to for&s;ake the worlde &amp; come vnto relygyon / not &s;o moche for the helth of theyr &s;oules / as the nece&s;|&s;ite and nede of theyr bodyes / whiche done not honour god / ne &s;tudy to plea&s;e hy~ / but rather y^e wombe / theyr owne carnall appetyte &amp; plea&s;ure. Of whiche maner of per&s;ones the apo&s;tle &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Phil.</ABBR> iij.</NOTE> Theyr wombe is theyr god. And our &s;auyour in y^e go&s;pell &s;ayd vnto &s;uche al&s;o Ye &s;eke me &amp; folowe me / not for the tokens &amp; myracles ye &s;awe me do / but bycau&s;e ye dyd ete of my brede and were fedde at my table.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh. vj.</NOTE> The mynde &amp; entent / the &s;tu|dy &amp; de&s;yre / the felicite &amp; plea&s;ure of &s;uche per&s;ones / is how they may fare well / be well arayed / &amp; lyue at ea&s;e and plea&s;ure temporally / to chery&s;&s;he them&s;elfe &amp; care no ferther. And therfore bycau&s;e theyr mynde &amp; appe|tyte is &s;et &s;o moche vpon erthly thynges / they profyte not in &s;pirytuall thy~ges.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. vj.</NOTE> For as our lorde &s;ayth. They receyue here in this lyfe theyr wages &amp; rewarde. For they done labour &amp; &s;eruyce for temporall goodes / and therfore theyr wages &amp; mede &s;hallbe temporall. Wher|fore
<PB N="xij" REF="27"> we that ben relygyous &abper;&s;ones / &amp; done purpo&s;e &amp; tru&s;t to haue a rewarde &s;pirytuall aboue all thynges te~porall / we mu&s;t (I &s;aye) be very ware &amp; take good hede we lene not to moche vnto ony thynge temporall For we ben &s;pirytuall by our &abpro;fe&s;&s;yon / &amp; therfore we &s;holde labour princypally for &s;pu~all thynges / &amp; lytell care for thynges temporall. And yf by chaunce we be ryche / that is to &s;ay / that we haue plente w^tout want we &s;hold than be moo&s;t ware y^t we reioyce not therof / ne take plea&s;ure therin. So doth y^e p&s;almi&s;t cou~&s;eyle. Diuitie &s;i affluant nolite cor apponere.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. lxj.</NOTE> Yf ryche&s;&s;e (&s;ayth he) habou~de / do not wylfully apply your hert and mynde therunto. For we &s;hold haue all temporall thynges in v&s;e onely / &amp; for nede / but y^e &s;pu~all thynges &s;holde we haue in de&s;yre of hert. For y^e &s;wetnes &amp; &s;pi|rytuall felynge of our lorde in the herte of a &s;pirytuall &abper;&s;one / is a thynge meruaylous &amp; grete / whiche often tymes he hydeth from them that done moo&s;t hertely loue hym. He hydeth it (I &s;aye) for y^e tyme of this lyf / but after it &s;hall appere &amp; fully content y^e per&s;one. So &s;ayth y^e prophete. Satiabor cu~ apparuerit <ABBR>glia</ABBR> tua.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. xvj.</NOTE> I &s;hall (&s;ayth he) be fully &s;aty&s;fyed and co~tent / whan thy glory lorde &s;hall appere &amp; be &s;hewed vnto me. Of the whiche glory y^e apo&s;tle &s;ayth / no eye may &s;e it / no eere may here it / ne ony herte thynke it / whiche our lorde hath prepared &amp; ordeyned for his louers.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co. ij.</NOTE> That plente than / that ryche&s;&s;e / that company / and full con+tentacyon &s;holde be our felycite &amp; plea&s;ure. There fo|loweth in y^e lettre. Nec eriga~t ceruice~. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> As before / y^t is by y^e &s;trayte lettre. Nor let them lyfte vp or &s;tretche out y^e necke / whiche is a prouerbe / &amp; &s;ignifyeth pryde.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<PB REF="28">
<P>&para; To &s;tretche out y^e necke is a &s;ygne of pryde. If he|uen were not a place co~uenyent for y^e proude au~gels / how may the mona&s;tery be a place co~uenyent for ony proude per&s;one. For though y^e place of relygyous per|&s;ones be holy / the habyte holy / the werkes / exercy&s;es and maner of lyuy~ge holy / yet a lytell patche of pryde marreth all togyder / de&s;troyeth all / lo&s;eth all / and ma+keth all without &abpro;fyte or meryte / &amp; therfore note well the co~mune prouerbe / pryde hath a fall.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> wherfore the prophete prayed vnto our lord.<NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al. xxxv</NOTE> Non veniat mihi pes &s;u&abper;bie. Good lorde (&s;ayth he) let me neuer haue a fote of pryde. An euyll metall is pryde to make a fote of / &amp; therfore the prophete &s;hewed why he axed y^t peticyon le&s;t he &s;hold &s;lyppe &amp; fall.<NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al. xxxv</NOTE> Quia ibi cecideru~t: qui ope|rant&abur; iniq^itate~. For there (&s;ayth he) done they fall that done werke iniquite &amp; &s;ynne.<NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al. xxxv</NOTE> Expul&s;i &s;u~t / nec potue|ru~t &s;tare. They were euer and euer &s;hall be expelled &amp; put out of all places of plea&s;ure / bycau&s;e they had no myght nor power by theyr owne frowardnes to &s;tan+de &amp; byde in perfeccyon: from heuen the au~gell / &amp; man fro~ parady&s;e fell by pryde. Than fye on pryde fye. For therby all y^e werkes &amp; exercy&s;es of religyon ben made nought / &amp; clene w^tout profyte. And contrary the &s;ame werkes &amp; labours what &s;o euer they be / ben by meke+nes very &abpro;fytable &amp; moche merytoryous. For y^e meke per&s;ones / ben y^e &s;colers of our lorde. Scripture &s;ayth. Docebit mites vias &s;uas.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;al. xxiiij p&s;al. ciij.</NOTE> He wyll teche y^e meke per|&s;ones his wayes. And in an other place. Amittit fon+tes in co~uallibus. He &s;endeth out fou~taynes of fre&s;&s;he water in the valeys / that is to &s;aye / he gyueth grace vnto meke per&s;ones. For they lo&s;e not theyr good la|bours / bycau&s;e they put not from them the keper and
<PB N="xiij" REF="28"> noury&s;&s;hers of al vertues / that is mekenes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lu. xiiij. &abpre;&s;. lxxxiij</NOTE> And for by+cau&s;e (after y^e go&s;pell) they &s;yt in y^e lowe&s;t place / &amp; (af|ter y^e prophete) they cho&s;e to be as abiectes in y^e hous of our lorde. Therfore doth he exalte them / and make them honourable. So he promy&s;ed in y^e go&s;pell.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lu. xviij</NOTE> Oi~s qui &s;e exaltat: <ABBR>humiliabit</ABBR>. Et q^i &s;e humiliat: <ABBR>exaltabit</ABBR>. Euery per&s;one y^t exalteth hym&s;elfe / &s;hall be brought lowe. And who y^t done make them&s;elfe meke &amp; lowe / &s;hall be exalted. And in an other place.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iaco. v.</NOTE> Almyghty god doth re&s;y&s;t &amp; with&s;tande proude per&s;ones. And vnto y^e meke he gyueth his grace. And thus an ende of the fyr&s;t chapytre of the rule &amp; the expo&s;icyon therof.</P>
<CLOSER>Amen.</CLOSER>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para; The &s;econde chapytre of the rule / with the expo&s;icyon of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P>_RVr&s;um etia~ illi qui aliq^id e&s;&s;e videba~tur in <ABBR>&s;clo</ABBR>: no~ habea~t fa&s;tidio fratres &s;uos. Qui ad illa~ &s;ancta~ &s;ocietate~ ex pauper|tate veneru~t. Magis au~t &s;tudea~t / no~ de parentu~ diuitu~ dignitate: &s;ed de paupe|ru~ fratru~ &s;ocietate g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ari. In engly&s;&s;he we &s;aye thus. And agayne for them that &s;emed to be of &s;ub&s;tau~ce or wor&s;hyp in y^e worlde / let not them dy&s;|deyne theyr felowes / that fro~ pouerte came vnto that holy co~gregacyon: but rather let them &s;tudy &amp; de&s;yre to reioyce &amp; take plea&s;ure / not of the dignite &amp; e&s;tate of theyr ryche kynne &amp; noble blode / but of the co~pany of theyr poore felowes. Whan &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne had or|dred them that came poore in to religyon / now he put+teth al&s;o an ordre for them that came ryche therunto / that lyke as y^e poore &s;holde not wexe proude / bycau&s;e
<PB REF="29"> they haue now that they had not before. So the per|&s;ones ryche / or hygh degre / &s;holde neyther di&s;deyn them y^t were poore / nor yet take ony more vpon them ne loke the more to be &s;et by for theyr goodes or kynne And therfore &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn &s;ayth not / tho&s;e y^t were ought worth / y^t is to &s;aye / that were of worldly &s;ub|&s;tau~ce or of degre / but he &s;ayth / tho&s;e y^t &s;emed &s;o to be as though he ment / that y^e per&s;ones were not in dede ony thynge worth / for y^e worldly &s;ub&s;tau~ce or carnall kynrede / all though vnto worldly per&s;ones they &s;eme &s;o to be. For the per&s;one is not to be extemed / valured or pray&s;ed for ony thynge tran&s;ytory / wherof is no &s;u+rety / but the very valure &amp; goodnes of euery per&s;one &s;ta~deth in y^t thynge that is of &s;ub&s;tau~ce &amp; &s;urety / that is vertue &amp; good lyuynge. For wheder they be ryche / or wheder they be poore / yf they be of lyke vertu / they ben felowes / &amp; therby bothe ryche &amp; honourable.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Suche per&s;ones as haue come vnto the company / co~gregacyon &amp; co~mune lyuynge in y^e mona&s;tery / mu&s;t with grete dilige~ce be ware they haue not eche other in dy&s;deyne by ony compary&s;on / as bycau&s;e that one in y^t worlde was more ryche than an other / or of gre|ter byrth / more hygh in offyce / rome or dignite / more wy&s;e / more cu~nynge / or better lerned. For the apo&s;tle &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co&abrum;. j.</NOTE> Our lord god dyd cho&s;e y^e moo&s;t lowe per&s;ones of poore lynage / &amp; that were moo&s;t de&s;py&s;able / &amp; that bycau&s;e no frayle per&s;one &s;holde reioyce &amp; &s;et by them &s;elfe in his &s;yght &amp; pre&s;ence: nor ony myghty per&s;one reioyce of his power: nor the wy&s;e of theyr wy&s;dom / nor yet y^e ryche of theyr ryche&s;&s;e. For in god is no par|cialite of per&s;ones. For our lord is euer one &amp; the &s;ame
<PB N="xiiij" REF="29"> in all that duely done pray&s;e his name / and call vpon hym by meke prayer. Well than &amp; conuenyently ben we co~mau~ded by the rule / that we &s;holde not reioyce ne take pryde of y^e dignite of our ryche kynne / but ra|ther &s;holde we be glad of the company of our poore fe|lowes in the congregacyon. For he that in his owne glory was ryche / was for vs made poore &amp; bare / &amp; he dyd vouche&s;afe to accompany hym&s;elfe / not with the riche / but w^t poore &abper;&s;ones. And therfore (to rean&s;were his kyndnes after our maner as we may) we ben a|gayne made poore for hym / &amp; that al&s;o for our owne profyte.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. v.</NOTE> For vnto y^e poore &amp; meke in &s;piryte he promy+&s;ed the kyngdom of heuen. To reioyce than or bo&s;te of ryche&s;&s;e aperteyneth vnto y^e vanite of the worlde / but to reioyce &amp; be glad of pouerte / apperteyneth vnto the beatitude &amp; bly&s;&s;e of heuen. There foloweth than in y^e lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The text.</NOTE> Nec extolla~tur &s;i co~muni vite aliq^id de &s;uis fa|cultatio&abus; co~tulerint: nec de &s;uis diuitijs magis &s;uper|biant quia eas mona&s;terio parciuntur: &abquam; &s;i eis in <ABBR>&s;clo</ABBR> fruerentur. Whiche we thus engly&s;&s;he. Nor yet let them yf they gaue or brought ony goodes vnto y^e co|mynty / loke to be preferred / to haue thanke / preemy|nence / rule / gouernau~ce / offyce / rome / or dignite / or y^e more to be chery&s;&s;hed / or &s;et by therfore: nor yet be proude of theyr ryche&s;&s;e / bycau&s;e they gaue them vn|to the mona&s;tery / more than yf they had in the world enioyed &amp; v&s;ed them at theyr owne wyll &amp; plea&s;ure. Many termes haue I there &s;et forth to expre&s;&s;e this one terme extollantur. Whiche neuertheles the other tran&s;lacyon full well engly&s;&s;heth / to be enhau~ced. yet do we more expre&s;&s;e the thynge. For ofte it happeth y^t &s;uche per&s;ones as brynge goodes w^t them / wyll loke
<PB REF="30"> to be preferred in tho thynges y^t we &s;pake of / or other lyke / whiche yf they do / they lo&s;e bothe theyr goodes &amp; meryte / for of god &s;hall they haue no thanke / ne yet of theyr company but a lytell. For it mu&s;t nede than &s;eme that by theyr goodes they rather made prouy|&s;yon for them&s;elfe / than to v&s;e ony charite vnto god / or vnto theyr poore company.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Of the &s;entence y^t gothe before / wherin &s;aynt Au|gu&s;tyn forbyddeth y^e ryche to di&s;deyne the poore. And of this &s;entence y^t al&s;o wyl they take no pryde of theyr almes done vnto y^e mona&s;tery. We may &s;e &amp; perceyue two kyndes / or two maners of pryde. The one carnal the other &s;pirytuall. For to dy&s;deyne pouerte / &amp; to re|ioyce of hygh blode / apperteyneth vnto y^e fle&s;&s;he / vnto the bodyly parte / for y^t is moche v&s;ed amonge the &s;ecu+ler people of the worlde. But to reioyce &amp; take pryde of the werkes of mercy / is &s;pirytuall vaynglory &amp; pryde whiche de&s;troyeth &amp; corrupteth many religyous per|&s;ones / wherfore y^e &s;pirytuall pryde is more peryllous and more to be dredde than y^e carnall. For to reioyce &amp; take pryde of a good werke cometh of a hygh mynde and grete &s;tomacke. And y^e hygher he clymbe / y^e more ieoperdous is the fall. Our lorde therfore in y^e go&s;pell byddeth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. vj</NOTE> Whan thou do&s;t almes (&s;ayth he) let not thy lyfte hande knowe what thy ryght hande doth / &s;o y^t thyne almes be done pryuely / &amp; he y^t &s;eeth in preuyte wyll rewarde the. By the ryght hande is ment well doynge in due maner / and good purpo&s;e. By the lyfte hande / a de&s;yre of worldly thanke or pray&s;e by pryde. By the&s;e wordes than ben we mony&s;&s;hed &amp; warned / that whan we do a good dede / we haue not mynde ne
<PB N="xv" REF="30"> de&s;yre to haue it knowen / for pray&s;e &amp; elacyon of hert For yf we do / we &s;hall &s;urely haue no rewarde of god. Now foloweth how grete &amp; peryllous this &s;ynne of pryde is / where is &s;ayd.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The text.</NOTE> Alia quippe iniquitas que|cu~&abque; / in malis operib&abus; exercetur / vt fiant: &s;u&abper;bia vero: bonis operibus in&s;idiatur / vt pereant. For of a &s;urete euery other iniquite or &s;ynne what &s;o euer it be / is ex|ercy&s;ed in euyll werkes to brynge them to pa&s;&s;e / but pryde lyeth in wayte al&s;o for good werkes / to cau&s;e them to pery&s;&s;he &amp; come to nought. That is to &s;aye / that man by all other &s;ynnes is a&s;&s;ayled &amp; tempted to do euyll &amp; amy&s;&s;e / but pryde doth not onely tempte &amp; moue man to do euyll / but al&s;o to lo&s;e y^e meryte of his good dedes. As by example / yf religyous &abper;&s;ones kepe them&s;elfe from all y^e actes &amp; dedes of &s;ynne / as to pre|ferre them&s;elfe in rome or offyce / or to maligne agay~&s;t ony per&s;on / &amp; &s;o lyue pea&s;fully &amp; re&s;tfully fro~ &s;ynne / &amp; than co~trary / gyue them to mekenes / charite / fa&s;ty~ge watche and prayer / w^t &s;uche other: than this &s;ynne of pryde is be&s;y to cau&s;e &s;uche per&s;ones to reioyce &amp; take vayne glory therin / &amp; &s;o to lo&s;e all the meryte therof.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; By the &s;entence before wryten appereth y^t pryde is more euyll than ony other &s;ynne. For it blyndeth the per&s;one / &amp; rauy&s;&s;heth the ryght mynde &amp; iudgement. And it is odyous &amp; hateful bothe to god &amp; man. For as &s;cripture &s;ayth. Initiu~ oi~s peccati &s;u&abper;bia.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Eccli.</ABBR> x.</NOTE> Pryde is heed and begy~nynge of all &s;ynne. For pryde is fyr&s;t in werkyng of &s;ynne. And la&s;t remayneth in co~flycte a&s;|&s;ayle &amp; w^t&s;tandyng therof. For whan y^e deuout &s;eruau~+tes of god haue vaynquy&s;&s;hed and ouercome all other &s;ynnes / and done begyn to clymbe vnto the heyght of
<PB REF="31"> vertue / yet &s;hall they haue co~tynuall batayle w^t pryde whiche pryde / excepte they al&s;o vaynquy&s;&s;he &amp; ouer|throwe / all theyr labour in y^e other &s;ynnes is voyde &amp; without fruyte / we mu&s;t therfore whan we do good dedes outwarde / kepe well &amp; warely y^e inwarde hert from pryde. For no dede can be vnto god plea&s;aunt by pryde. The wy&s;e man therfore &s;ayth. with all cu&s;to|dy &amp; due garde kepe well thyne herte / for therof pro|cedeth &amp; cometh lyfe.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prou~. iiij</NOTE> For y^e herte in all lyuynge thyn|ges / is the fyr&s;t that hath lyfe. There foloweth than. Et quid &abpro;de&s;t di&s;&abper;ge~do dare pauperib&abus; / et paupere~ fieri:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The text. a.l. di&s;per+gere da~do</NOTE> cu~ ai~a mi&s;era &s;u&abper;bior <ABBR>efficit</ABBR> diuitias co~tempnen+do / &abquam; fuerat po&s;&s;idendo. And what auayleth it to &s;per+poyle &amp; dele goodes vnto the poore / &amp; &s;o in worldly ry|che&s;&s;e to be made bare &amp; nedy / yf the wretched &s;oule be more proude in de&s;py&s;ynge &amp; for&s;akynge of y^e ryche&s;&s;e than it was in y^e po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon &amp; v&s;ynge of them at wyll. This is a rea&s;on of per&s;ua&s;yon / whiche &s;aynt Augu|&s;tyne maketh for the rea&s;on before &s;poken / prouynge that to for&s;ake ryche&s;&s;e / &amp; than to be proude therof / is a grete foly / &amp; (as the co~mune prouerbe &s;ayth) a pryde without a &abpro;fyte. And yet we may perceyue / as well by &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne as by our owne experyence / that &s;uche per&s;ones there haue ben / that whan they had lefte &amp; for&s;aken theyr goodes / and full well be&s;towed them to come vnto religyon / yet haue they after reioy+ced &amp; &s;omtyme bo&s;ted what goodes they for&s;oke / ferre more than euer they dyd bo&s;te (whan they had po&s;&s;e&s;+&s;yon of them) what or how moche goodes they had. Wherfore after</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>It no thynge auayleth vs to for&s;ake our goodes / ex|cepte we al&s;o for&s;ake our &s;elfe. For our &s;auyour &s;ayd
<PB N="xvj" REF="31"> not / ble&s;&s;ed be they that ben poore in goodes / but they (&s;ayth he) ben ble&s;&s;ed that ben poore in &s;pirite / that is to &s;aye / poore for y^e holy gho&s;t.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. v</NOTE> For vnto them of ryght apperteyneth the kyngdome of heuen. Euery per&s;one &s;holde of rea&s;on be rather meker than prouder / of the de&s;py&s;yng &amp; for&s;akyng of worldly goodes. And better were it / they had kept them &s;tyll in y^e worlde / than af+ter in the mona&s;tery to be proude of y^e gyuynge or de|partynge of them. Lykewy&s;e therfore as y^e vertuous per&s;ones &amp; good deuout &s;oules y^t for the loue of Chry&s;t done gyue theyr goodes in almes / therby to wexe the more lowe &amp; meke in herte / ben for them the better &amp; more gracyous: &s;o ben they that ben proude &amp; enhaun+&s;ed therby moche y^e wor&s;e &amp; more my&s;erable. Vnhap|py than is he / that by y^e path &amp; maner of vertue wyll drawe &amp; go vnto vyce &amp; my&s;chefe / &amp; where he myght wynne meryte &amp; rewarde / wyll <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">enne hedlonge into payne &amp; turment. For the nature of pryde is / that the hygher he clymbeth / the lower he falleth / &amp; the more he reioyced in &s;elfe appetite &amp; vayne plea&s;ure / y^e lower he lyeth in payne &amp; woo. Now &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn after he had reproued the&s;e vyces / doth agayne returne vn+to vnite / peace &amp; concorde wherw^t he began / &s;ayenge. Omnes ergo vnanimiter et concorditer viuite / et ho|norate in vobis deu~ inuice~ / cui&abus; templa facti e&s;tis.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Textus.</NOTE> All you therfore lyue togyder re&s;tfully / of one mynde and agreably / &amp; in your &s;elfe eche vnto other amonge your &s;elfe / do you honour vnto almyghty god / who&s;e tem|ples &amp; mancyons ye now ben made &amp; ordeyned. That is to meane / that &s;yth ye by holy religyon ben the ho|ly temples of our lorde (&s;o &s;ayth &s;aynt Paule.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co. iij.</NOTE> Tem|plum dei &s;anctu~ e&s;t quod e&s;tis vos. The temple of god
<PB REF="32"> (&s;ayth he) is holy / &amp; ye chry&s;tyans ben the &s;ame tem|ple) Ordre than your lyf &s;o / that he may dwell in you that is / that ye be of one herte by loue / of one mynde / and one wyll / of one a&s;&s;ent by concorde &amp; vnite. And yf ye wyll do vnto our lorde due honour &amp; plea&s;aunt / do fyr&s;t amonge your &s;elfe due honour eche vnto other. A lyke le&s;&s;on our lorde gaue of loue / whiche loue eue|ry where is coupled to honour imparteably. In that (&s;ayth he) &s;hall ye be knowen &amp; proued my dy&s;cyples &amp; louers.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh~. xiij.</NOTE> Yf ye loue entrechaungeably / that is to &s;aye yf ye loue eche other / it mu&s;t nede than folowe / that yf we loue eche other for god / we &s;hall therin moo&s;t euydently proue / that we ryghtly and duly done loue god. Ye remembre we &s;hewed you before the mynde of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne is all to brynge the dy&s;cyples of this rule vnto the loue &amp; honour of god / by the meane due therunto / that is / the loue of the neyghbour / whi+che here now he proueth. For after he had &s;hewed the meane vnto the perfyte loue of the neyghbour / to be vnite / peace / and concorde / and the meane therto / by leuynge and for&s;akynge propriete / and to lyue all in co~mune / and yet the fourme al&s;o of the lyuynge in co~|mune / and the lettes therof. How that lyuyng is me|rytoryous / and how not / he now here returneth a|gayne vnto the remembraunce of the &s;ame vnite / as is &s;ayd in the lettre before. For the due &amp; perfyte con|tynuaunce wherof / &amp; for to enduce the dy&s;cyples vn|to the &s;econde coun&s;eyle of cha&s;tyte / he ordreth them fyr&s;t vnto prayer as foloweth / whiche ye &s;hall here after the expo&s;ycyon of this fore&s;ayd texte by</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Than done we lyue togyder agreably / and in con|corde
<PB N="xvij" REF="32">
/ whan we haue in our lorde one mynde and one wyll. For &s;o is wryten of the chirche of Chry&s;t / in the fyr&s;t begynnynge therof.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. ij.</NOTE> Erat eis cor vnum / et ani|ma vna in domino. They had one herte / and one wyll in our lorde.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> In that he &s;ayth in the lettre vnanimi|ter / that is / that we &s;holde lyue togyder / and be all of one mynde / that apperteyneth vnto the wyll. And where he &s;ayth concorditer / that is / agreably and in concorde / that apperteyneth vnto religyous maners / condicyons &amp; behauyour.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> This than is y^e ryght ordre of lyuynge / fyr&s;t that in a congregacyon there be one wyll / &amp; &s;econde lyke maners / lyke behauyour. Tho&s;e per&s;ones than y^t wyll lyue in relygyou agreably / &amp; in concorde / they mu&s;t haue one religyous mynde / that is to leue and for&s;ake all euyll maners / all frowarde condicyons / &s;o that they be not out of ordre / ne with|out di&s;cyplyne &amp; religyous behauyour / le&s;t they trou+ble theyr felowes &amp; company. Than mu&s;t they wey and con&s;ydre all theyr actes &amp; dedes / all theyr &s;peche and wordes / all theyr ge&s;ture and behauyour / &amp; gene+rally all theyr hole lyfe: &s;o that in all they agre and be lyke vnto theyr co~pany. Bycau&s;e therfore that many per&s;ones / whan they haue lefte y^e worlde / wolde lyue in relygyon after theyr owne wyll and mynde / and &s;ome al&s;o in theyr actes and dedes wolde take &s;yngu+ler wayes / and haue appetyte to &s;eme precy&s;e aboue other. Therfore &s;ayth the rule. Oe~s vnanimiter.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> as before / whiche texte with the text al&s;o before / this holy &s;aynt expowneth agayne of newe. Wherin ye may note good chry&s;tyanes the grete zele and chari|te of this holy &s;aynt / <NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> and other olde auctoures that gaue &s;uche dylygence and laboure / to haue the rule
<PB REF="33"> knowen clerely / &amp; therafter kepte. A grete dyfference bytwene them in the olde tyme that kepte the rule / &amp; them of whome I &s;pake of vnto you in our preface / y^e done hyde &amp; kepe the rule from y^e di&s;cyples of y^e &s;ame. Syth than this &s;aynt was &s;oo dylygent / it &s;hall no thynge greue vs to &s;hewe agayne his mynde / and to premytte agayne the very lettre. So it wery not you to rede it agayne / &amp; &s;tudy well y^e &s;ame.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The text.</NOTE> Nec extollan|tur / &s;i co~muni vite aliquid de &s;uis facultatibus co~tu|lerint: nec de &s;uis diuitijs magis &s;uperbia~t quia eas mona&s;terio <ABBR>parciunt</ABBR>: &abquam; &s;i eis in &s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o fruere~tur. That is (as we &s;ayd before) And yf they gaue or brought ony of theyr goodes vnto the co~mune lyuynge / let not them take y^e more vpon them therfore / ne loke to haue preemynence or rule / or y^e more to be &s;et by / nor yet to wexe proude ne &abpre;&s;ume of theyr ryche&s;&s;e / bycau&s;e they gaue them vnto y^e mona&s;tery / more tha~ yf they had in y^e worlde enioyed &amp; v&s;ed them at theyr owne plea&s;ure.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>Better were it to kepe theyr goodes &s;tyll in y^e worlde than &s;o to depart them vnto the mona&s;tery / that they pre&s;ume &amp; wexe proude of them. For yf they in theyr owne mynde be enhau~ced by pryde / they be therby in dede ouerthrowen / and haue a grete fall. For who &s;o euer in that they well do wexe proude therof / in the &s;ame waye they &s;tu~ble / wherin they &s;eme to go forth and profyte. For a good dede done w^t pryde / dothe not promote ony &abper;&s;ones towarde bly&s;&s;e / buth rather pey|&s;eth &amp; weyeth them downe vnto payne. That &s;oule than is happy &amp; gracyous / that may &s;aye w^t the pro|phete.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;al. cxxx</NOTE> Dn~e non e&s;t exaltatu~ cor meu~: ne&abque; elati &s;unt oculi mei: ne&abque; ambulaui in magnis / ne&abque; in mirabi|libus
<PB N="xviij" REF="33"> &s;u&abper; me. That is. Good lorde my herte is not ex|alted by inward pryde / nor myn eyes or lokes ben en|haunced by ony proude ge&s;ture. And I haue not al&s;o walked amonge grete per&s;ones / that is / I haue not &s;uppo&s;ed my &s;elfe felowe vnto them that ben grete in worldly power. Nor yet haue I walked in thynges meruayllous aboue my &s;elfe / that is / I haue not thought / nor iudged my &s;elfe more holy / more wy&s;e or more vertuous than I am. The expo&s;ycyon of</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Happy &s;urely ben tho&s;e per&s;ones y^t haue not pryde hydde in theyr hertes / nor yet &s;hewed outwarde in theyr bodyes / neyther in theyr habyte / clothynge / or araye / nor yet in theyr werkes / nor wordes / counte|nau~ce / ge&s;ture / nor ony other behauyour. And al&s;o yf they walke not amonge grete &abper;&s;ones / that is / yf they repute and &s;uppo&s;e not them&s;elfe felowes vnto them that ben of noble byrthe &amp; grete power / bycau&s;e they gaue theyr goodes vnto the mona&s;tery: or yet y^e more wy&s;e and polityke / bycau&s;e that in this offyce or that rome / they haue &s;aued moche / and ben very profyta|ble. And yf al&s;o they haue not walked aboue them &s;elfe in thynges meruaylous. That is / yf they haue not had ony appetyte or de&s;yre to &s;eme meruayllous and &s;ynguler / eyther in good religyon / holy lyfe / or in other vertues / gyuen of god. For fewe per&s;ones ben / that in the&s;e thynges ben not &s;omtyme moued. Not|with&s;tandynge to auoyde all &s;uche temptacyons of pryde / the &s;eruau~tes of god &s;hold euer thynke of them &s;elfe the wor&s;te / and &s;uppo&s;e them&s;elfe moo&s;t lowe &amp; moo&s;t vnworthy / and by no meanes &s;hold they exalte theyr owne my~de / but rather by all mekenes repre&s;&s;e
<PB REF="34"> it.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Eccli.</ABBR> iij.</NOTE> So is the cou~&s;eyle of y^e wy&s;e man. Quanto maior+es: humilia te in om~ibus. The more thou arte in &s;ub|&s;tau~ce &amp; reputacion / the more lowe &amp; meke make thou thy &s;elfe. For y^e &s;entence that foloweth / is moche to be fered &amp; dredde.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> Alia quippe iniq^itas quecu~&abque;: i~ malis operib&abus; exercetur / vt fiant. Su&abper;bia <ABBR>vo</ABBR> bonis operib&abus; in&s;idiatur / vt pereant. That is. Euery other iniquite or &s;ynne what &s;o euer it be / is exercy&s;ed in euyll wer|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es to brynge them to pa&s;&s;e / to bry~ge them to purpo&s;e &amp; effecte. But pryde lyeth al&s;o in wayte of good wer|kes / to cau&s;e them to pery&s;&s;he &amp; be lo&s;t. Our mynde is before.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Auaryce is not exercy&s;ed &amp; put in v&s;e / but in euyll werkes / no more is lechery / and lykewy&s;e of all other vyces. But pryde lyeth in wayte to &s;lee &amp; de&s;troye the good werkes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lu. xviij.</NOTE> The phari&s;ey therfore lo&s;t all his good dedes / bycau&s;e he w^t pryde bo&s;ted what he had done. Saynt Augu&s;tyn therof &s;ayth. There ben &s;ome per|&s;ones that of y^e contempte &amp; de&s;py&s;ynge of vayne glo|ry / done moche more vaynly reioyce therof. And lyke wy&s;e &s;ome that of the for&s;akynge &amp; de&s;py&s;ynge of ry|che&s;&s;e / ben therby enhau~ced / &amp; the more vaynly &s;tered vnto pryde.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Textus.</NOTE> Wherof it foloweth in y^e lettre. Et q^id pro+de&s;t di&s;&abper;ge~do dare pau&abper;ib&abus; &amp; paupere~ fieri: cu~ ai~a mi|&s;era &s;u&abper;bior <ABBR>efficit</ABBR> diuitas &abcon;te~pnendo: &abquam; fuerat po&s;&s;i|dendo. That is. And what auayleth it ony per&s;one to &s;perpoyle &amp; dele ryche&s;&s;e vnto y^e poore / whyle y^e wret|ched &s;oule &amp; mynde is made in de&s;py&s;ynge of ryche&s;&s;e more proude than it was in the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon of them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>As though &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne &s;holde breuely &amp; playn|ly &s;aye. what &s;holde pouerte auayle with pryde? For
<PB N="xix" REF="34"> better is a meke ryche per&s;one / than the proude poore And better is a meke &s;ynner / than a iu&s;te lyuer / and proude therof. The &s;eruauntes therfore of our lorde mu&s;t be circu~&s;pecte and ware of them&s;elfe. Fyr&s;t that they do none euyll / and than they be not neglygent of well doynge. And euer be ware that of the good they do / they take no pryde. For than ben our good dedes &s;urely &amp; truly good / whan we euer pre&s;erue and kepe them in humilite. And than al&s;o ben we veryly poore with Chry&s;t / yf we (for his loue) be meke &amp; lowe. And than &s;hall be &s;ayd of vs. Beati pau&abper;es &s;pu~:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. v.</NOTE> qm~ ip&s;o|ru~ e&s;t regnu~ celo&abrum;. Ble&s;&s;ed be the poore in &s;piryte / for the kyngdome of heuen is theyrs. There foloweth than in the lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> Omnes ergo vnanimiter et co~cor|diter viuite / et honorate in vobis deu~ inuicem: cuius te~pla facti e&s;tis. That is. All you therfore lyue togy|der one in wyll / and agreably of one concorde. And in doynge honour &amp; reuerence eche vnto other amonge your &s;elfe / do you honour vnto god / who&s;e temples &amp; dwellynge places ye now ben made by religyon.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Pouerte and mekenes done engendre and brynge forth charite. And charite doth noury&s;&s;he vnite &amp; con|corde. And vnite &amp; co~corde done make vs y^e temples &amp; dwelly~ge places of our lord. And &s;o we truly done ho|nour god / whan we lyue in vnite &amp; concorde. For than done we &s;hewe in dede that we ben the true di&s;cyples of Chry&s;t / whan we kepe y^e vnite &amp; concorde of y^e cha|rite of Chry&s;t. So he &s;ayd hym&s;elfe in y^e go&s;pell.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh~. xiij.</NOTE> In hoc cogno&s;ce~t oe~s quia di&s;cipuli mei e&s;tis: &s;i dilectione~ habueritis adinuice~. In that (&s;ayth he) all the world &s;hall knowe that ye be my di&s;cyples / yf ye haue vnite
<PB REF="35"> peace / loue &amp; concorde eche vnto other. Thus endeth the &s;econde expo&s;icyon of &s;aynt Hugh / vpon the&s;e la&s;t clau&s;es. Now foloweth y^e lettre. Orationib&abus; in&s;tate / horis et temporib&abus; co~&s;titutis. That is. At the dyuyne &s;eruyce of god be you pre&s;ent / and with con&s;tau~t dily|gence gyue hede therunto in the due houres &amp; tymes appoynted &amp; a&s;&s;igned. That terme in&s;tare ioyned vn|to the datyue / dothe &s;ignyfye a co~&s;tau~t bydynge with diligence / or violence / wherby &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne wyl|leth that we &s;hall not (without a rea&s;onable cau&s;e) be ab&s;ent from diuyne &s;eruyce / ne yet &s;tartynge therfro~ / but bydynge therby with diligent attencyon. At this fore&s;ayd texte after &s;ome bokes begy~neth a chapytre / but we done not &s;o v&s;e it / &amp; therfore I folowe not that waye. But I thynke / that where (as we &s;ayd) &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn began w^t the loue of god / &amp; of y^e neyghbour and now returnynge therunto agayne / he hath co~clu+ded the loue of the neyghbour in vnite and co~corde / he wolde al&s;o co~clude y^e loue of god in due honour &amp; reue|re~ce. For loue w^tout honour &amp; reuere~ce is childynes: &s;o done babes loue theyr faders &amp; moders. And honour w^tout loue is mockery: &s;o dyd y^e iewes honour Chry&s;t. Saynt Augu&s;tyn therfore co~cludyng the loue of god / wold he &s;hold be duly honoured / &amp; that is princypally (as in outwarde behauyour) by diuyne &s;eruyce / whi+che he wold al&s;o were done w^t all dilige~ce &amp; due meane in due tyme / and due place. whiche circu~&s;tau~ces done here after folowe / as ye &s;hall perceyue by the places. Fyr&s;t he begy~neth w^t the diligence / the pre&s;ence / in co|mynge therunto: &s;econde w^t the tyme: thyrde with the place: &amp; fourth with y^e due meane &amp; maner therof. It &s;emeth al&s;o y^t &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn doth here co~uenyently
<PB N="xx" REF="35"> ordre his di&s;ciples vnto prayer. For whan he had de|pryued them of all &abpro;prete / &amp; ordred them to lyue all in co~mune / he wold now &s;hewe them what for theyr ly|uynge they &s;hold do / wherunto they &s;hold be bou~de / that is to praye. And y^t in&s;tau~tly to care therfore / to or|dre them&s;elfe &amp; prepare them w^t all diligence therunto and byde &s;tedfa&s;tly therby / for the fyr&s;t. For y^e &s;econde to kepe the due houres &amp; tymes appoynted: whan the bell rynges / leue all y^t may be left / &amp; with ha&s;te go to y^e quere / &amp; there byde w^t contynuau~ce. Euery nece&s;&s;ite is to be con&s;ydred. For this due houres and tymes now here holy</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Before y^e due houres or tymes appoynted to praye is &abpro;uy&s;yon &amp; diligence / worthy thanke / &amp; &s;o meryto|ryous. In due tyme &amp; houres appoynted to praye / is obedience / duty / &amp; bonde. And to pa&s;&s;e y^e due houres &amp; tyme / is negligency / &amp; &s;o worthy paynes &amp; puny&s;&s;he|ment. Prayer therfore &s;holde be well &amp; often v&s;ed / by|cau&s;e it is &abpro;fytable. And the more in&s;tau~tly &amp; feruent|ly &s;holde we praye / bycau&s;e almyghty god dothe pro|my&s;e vnto vs therfore grete reward:<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co&abrum;. ij.</NOTE> &s;uche as neyther eye may &s;e / ere may here / nor yet hert can thy~ke / whi+che our lord hath ordeyned for them y^t done loue hym. Our lorde wyll not his rewarde be lytell &s;et by / nor &s;eme &s;o lytell worth / to be gyuen and had without la+bour or diligence. For a precyous &amp; plea&s;au~t rewarde requireth a diligent &amp; louynge labourer. He &s;ayd ther|fore in y^e go&s;pell. Petite / et accipietis:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. vij</NOTE> querite / et inue+nietis: pul&s;ate / et aperietur vobis. That is. Axe you with &s;tedfa&s;t fayth / &amp; ye &s;hal haue your peticyon: &s;eke you by dylygent labour with &s;tronge hope / &amp; ye &s;hall fynde that ye &s;eke fore: knocke you by per&s;euerau~ce &amp;
<PB REF="36"> contynuau~ce with charite / &amp; the gates of heuen &s;hall be open / ye &s;hall &s;e &amp; perceyue parte of his &s;wetenes. For I tell you the kyngdome of god / is not promy&s;ed vnto lu&s;kes &amp; lubbers / ydle / dull / &amp; negligent &abper;&s;ones / but (as &s;cripture recordeth) the kyngdome of heuen doth &s;uffre violence / &amp; the violent &amp; feruent per&s;ones done rauy&s;&s;he &amp; take that kyngdome. Almyghty god loueth in&s;tau~ce / reque&s;t in prayer &amp; importunite. And &s;yth the rewarde promy&s;ed is &s;o grete / the de&s;yre &amp; la+bour therfore / &s;hold not of rea&s;on be lytell or &s;mall. For the de&s;yre &amp; appetyte of y^e per&s;one &s;holde be accordy~ge vnto y^e valure of y^e rewarde. And all though almygh|ty god &s;eme not to here our prayer at y^e fyr&s;t tyme / all though we &s;ygh &amp; wepe and praye full hertely / yet &s;holde we not leue &s;o / but rather axe &s;tyll on / &s;eke &s;tyll knocke &s;tyll / for there haue we occa&s;yon of per&s;eue|rau~ce &amp; in&s;tau~t reque&s;t / and with importune clamour and crye to &s;ue &s;tyll / &amp; neuer gyue ouer tyll we haue our de&s;yre and peticyon. And yf perauenture we per|ceyue or &s;u&s;pect that our co~&s;cyence be defouled by ony vnclene or vicyous dede / worde or thought / let vs not therfore gyue ouer our &s;ute / &amp; leue our prayer / but ra+ther turne our &s;ute &amp; occa&s;yon / or mater of prayenge vnto contrycyon / and with contynuall lamentacyon / let vs humbly be&s;eche the mercy of our maker / by the interce&s;&s;yon &amp; helpe of our ble&s;&s;ed lady / and other holy &s;ayntes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xv.</NOTE> And yf we after the example of y^e woman of chanance / per&s;euer &amp; byde &s;tyll con&s;tau~tly in prayer / doubte we not / we &s;hall obteyne the mercy &amp; grace of our maker / whiche &s;hall rectyfye &amp; correcte all our er|rours / &s;anctifye &amp; clen&s;e all the fylth of our vices / and appea&s;e &amp; re&s;t all our troubles. For he is faythfull and
<PB N="xxj" REF="36"> iu&s;te / and wyll accordynge to his prome&s;&s;e remytte and forgyue all our &s;ynnes / &amp; wa&s;&s;he vs clene from all the inquinamentes and fylthes of the &s;ame / yf we with dylygent mynde and herte wyll call vpon hym by contynuall prayer. And that relygyous per&s;ones &s;holde bothe &s;ecretely and quyetly praye / there folo|weth in the lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> In oratorio / nemo aliquid agat ni&s;i ad quod factum e&s;t: vnde et nomen accepit vt &s;i forte aliqui: et preter horas con&s;titutas: &s;i eis vacat et orare voluerint: non eis &s;int impedimento / qui ibi aliquid agendum putauerint.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a.l. ager volueri~t. The ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> tra~&s;lacyo~ xlij. di&s;ti~. oratoriu~. et in ora|rio.</NOTE> In the oratory / chir|che or place of prayer / let no per&s;one do ony werke or be&s;ynes but praye. For therunto the chirche was ma+de and ordeyned / and therof hath the name of an ora|tory. And the cau&s;e therof is / that yf ony per&s;ones / be&s;yde theyr duty / and be&s;yde the houres appoynted haue ley&s;er and wold praye. The other per&s;ones that in the chirche wolde do ony labour or be&s;ynes / &s;holde not vnto them be impedyment / nor let them to praye. In this place your olde tran&s;lacyon dothe erre. For there is &s;ayd / that &s;uche per&s;ones as wolde praye in the chyrche at voyde tymes / &s;holde not lette theym that &s;holde werke there or laboure: where the myn|de of the lettre / is contrary. How be it the latyn / as for gramatycall con&s;truccyon / wolde &s;erue bothe the wayes: and that I thynke cau&s;ed your olde tran&s;la|tour to &s;et the &s;ame &s;entence indyfferent al&s;o in eng|ly&s;&s;he / and &s;o made it ferre more blynde than the la|tyn. For the rea&s;on of the proce&s;&s;e / wyll not &s;uffre the &s;entence otherwy&s;e to be / than after the mynde of our tran&s;lacyon. In the whiche &s;entence ye may perceyue y^e thyrde artycle that we put of prayer / that
<PB REF="37"> is to &s;aye / the place. For y^e very due place of prayer / is the chirche or chapell / or ony other oratory / or place ha+lowed by a by&s;&s;hop. And in defaute of &s;uche place ha|lowed / ony other place princypally deputed &amp; appoyn+ted therunto / is the co~uenyent place of prayer. I &s;aye not naye / but in euery place ye may praye / but your duty &s;holde be &s;ayd euer in the chirche / excepte cau&s;e of nece&s;&s;yte. And in y^e chirche &s;holde none other werke be done / but (as the rule &s;ayth) onely prayer. whiche for ony worldly be&s;ynes &s;holde not be letted. Therfore our &s;auyour droue out from the temple all byers and &s;ellers / &s;ayenge vnto them.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xxj.</NOTE> My hous &s;hall be called the hous of prayer. And that he dyd to teche y^e people that in the chirche &s;hold no werke be done but prayer. For euery chirche is buylded for that entent &amp; purpo&s;e onely / that people therin &s;holde praye.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Be. xxviij</NOTE> For the chirche (as &s;cripture &s;ayth) is the hous of god / &amp; the porte or gate of heuen. Therin &s;ynners ben recon&s;yled / &amp; iu&s;te per&s;ones &s;anctifyed and made holy. There diuyne &s;er+uyce is done vnto our lord. And y^e holy cele&s;tyall &s;acra+mentes ben there miny&s;tred. Of whiche place Salo|mon &s;ayd.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">. Re. viij.</NOTE> Good lorde / yf thy people be co~uerted from iniquite / and do praye &amp; make vnto y^e peticyon / at thy &s;anctuary &amp; in thy chirche / thou wylte (good lorde of thy goodnes) here gracyou&s;ly / &amp; grau~t theyr peticyon And y^u wylte al&s;o forgyue all theyr &s;ynnes. And ther|fore we &s;holde w^t moo&s;t diligence take hede / &amp; be ware that no thynge be done in y^e chirche of god / that &s;holde offende the pre&s;ence of his dyuyne mage&s;te / nor yet let ony per&s;ones that wolde therin praye. How than we &s;holde praye in the chirche / foloweth in the lettre. P&s;almis et ympnis cum oratis deum:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The text.</NOTE> hoc ver&s;etur
<PB N="xxij" REF="37"> in corde <ABBR>qd</ABBR> &abpro;fertur in ore. That is.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a.l. vore.</NOTE> And whan &s;o euer ye praye &amp; &s;erue god with p&s;almes / ympnes / or other duty / let euer the &s;ame thynge be remembred in your hertes / that is vttred / &s;poke / or &s;onge by your mouth This artycle is princypally &s;poken for them y^t vnder|&s;tande what they &s;ynge or rede. Notw^t&s;tandynge &s;o it apperteyneth vnto you y^t be vnlerned / that ye remem+bre (in as moche as ye can) that ye &s;ange or &s;ayd / this p&s;alme or this ver&s;e / &amp; that the other &s;yde or your fe|lowe &s;ange or &s;ayd the ryght ver&s;e to rean&s;were you. Here now ye may &s;e y^e fourth artycle I &s;pake of / that is / the meane and maner of prayenge / whiche &s;holde euer be w^t due attencyon &amp; hede. Not &s;o y^t your mynde &s;holde be actually euer vpon y^e mater ye &s;ynge or &s;aye For y^e pa&s;&s;eth your power / it &s;uffy&s;eth it be virtually therupon / that is that ye in y^e begynnynge purpo&s;e &amp; entende to your power to haue mynde onely vpon our lord &amp; his &s;eruyce / &amp; that ye wylfully by good remem+brau~ce chau~ge not therfrom. And yf by chaunce your mynde be alyenate &amp; from your &s;eruyce / vpon other vayne or vnlawfull maters: as &s;oone as ye perceyue the &s;ame / ye mu&s;t leue &amp; for&s;ake all tho&s;e thoughtes / what &s;o euer they be / for the tyme of your &s;eruyce / all though they were neuer &s;o good / &amp; returne agayn vn+to your fyr&s;t purpo&s;e / y^e mater (as I &s;ayd) of your &s;er|uyce. For no thynge &s;holde ye wylfully &amp; by apoynt|ment haue in mynde (for the tyme) but that alone. yet yf your mynde agayn&s;t your wyl or purpo&s;e were di|&s;tracte &amp; clene from your &s;eruyce / &s;o that ye wy&s;t not wheder ye &s;ayd or &s;onge it or no / but onely by cu&s;tom / cour&s;e / or by them ye &s;ayd with or &s;onge: yet be ye not bou~de to &s;aye it agayne / but to &s;et in agayn where ye
<PB REF="38"> fynde your &s;elfe / excepte the di&s;traccyon were notably moche / as y^e more parte or very nere. The &s;ure waye therfore is / fyr&s;t (as I &s;ayd) to begyn well w^t a hole mynde &amp; good wyll of co~tynuau~ce. And than to v&s;e of purpo&s;ed cu&s;tome to call your mynde many tymes in your &s;eruyce / vnto y^e mater of y^e &s;ame / &amp; neuer of wyll to chau~ge therfro~. And &s;omtymes by holy &amp; religious ge&s;tures to excyte &amp; &s;tere your deuocio~ / as by knockes of co~pu~ccyon vpon your bre&s;t / lyftynge y^e eyes or han|des / &amp; all as pryuely as ye can vnto our lorde alone.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The mynde of them that &s;erue god in the chirche <ABBR>&s;hold</ABBR> agre w^t the voyce or wordes / that they may &s;ay with &s;aynt Paule.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co. xiiij</NOTE> P&s;alla~ &s;pu~ p&s;alla~ et mente. That is. I wyl &s;ynge or &s;aye w^t my voyce. And I wyl ther with &s;ynge al&s;o or &s;aye w^t my herte &amp; mynde. Perty|nacy &amp; &s;tyfnes of mynde in prayer / is moche meryto|ryous &amp; fruytfull / y^t is whan we praye w^t our mouth &amp; al&s;o done reme~bre in mynde &amp; thynke in our hertes the &s;ame. For oft we praye whan our mynde is other wy&s;e occupyed / &s;o y^t we remembre not the &s;ame &s;elfe thynge we &s;ynge or &s;aye. But &s;urely our lorde hereth not theyr prayers / that of purpo&s;e careth not / ne take hede what they praye / whiche notw^t&s;tandynge hap|peth ofte by y^e temptacyon of y^e gho&s;tly enemy. For he knoweth well y^e fruyte &amp; profyte of prayer. And ther|fore by y^e enuy &amp; malyce he hath vnto vs / y^e we &s;holde obteyn of our lorde y^e grace of our peticyon / he putteth vnto our myndes many troublous cogytacyons / to y^t purpo&s;e y^t he myght drawe our mynde away from y^e prayer / and we therby lo&s;e y^e fruyte &amp; profyte therof. Agayn&s;t who&s;e malyce we mu&s;t haue grete co~&s;tancy
<PB N="xxiij" REF="38"> of mynde / &s;o y^t the more we ben a&s;&s;ayled w^t troublous thoughtes / the more myghtyly our mynde be fixed in our good purpo&s;e. For vnto y^e purite of prayer moche auayleth that we in euery place / in euery tyme flee &amp; auoyde all euyll &amp; occa&s;yon therof. And y^t we neuer be ydle / neyther in vayne co~munycacyon / in herynge or tellynge of tales / nor in vayne / wanton / or vycyous di&s;portes / but that we walke (as y^e prophete &s;ayth) &amp; go forwarde in the lawe of our lorde / and that we ac|cu&s;tome our &s;elfe to &s;erche &amp; lerne his te&s;tymonyes &amp; trouthes w^t al our hertes &amp; wylles.<NOTE PLACE="marg">&abpre;&s;. cxviij.</NOTE> For doubtles tho&s;e thynges y^t we of cu&s;tome done moo&s;t v&s;e to do / moo&s;t v&s;e to &s;peke / moo&s;t v&s;e to here / mu&s;t nede moo&s;t redyly &amp; moo&s;t often come vnto our my~de / &amp; as be&s;t acquayn+ted / lenge&s;t &amp; moo&s;t &s;urely remayne therin. There fo|loweth than in the lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Textus.</NOTE> Et nolite ca~tare / ni&s;i quod legi&s;tis e&s;&s;e cantandu~. Quod aute~ no~ ita &s;criptu~ e&s;t vt cantetur: non cantet&abur;.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The text.</NOTE> And neuer coueyte you to &s;ynge but that ye knowe by auctorite &s;holde be &s;onge. And yf ony thynge be ordeyned not to be &s;onge / let it not be &s;onge. This &s;ente~ce al&s;o apperteyneth vnto y^e maner of prayenge. For in y^e &s;eruyce of the chirche &s;ome thyn+ges ben ordeyned to be &s;onge / &s;ome to be redde / &s;ome to bothe. we may not therfore in prayer folowe our own fanta&s;y / but y^e ordynau~ce of the chirche by auctorite.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; It becometh not the &s;onge &amp; &s;eruyce of y^e chirche to be done in dyuer&s;e maners / after the mynde &amp; ymagy+nacyon of many chau~geable and newfangled per&s;o|nes / but y^t it be &s;tedfa&s;t of one generall v&s;e. And kepte accordynge vnto y^e tradycyon / co~mau~dementes / wry|tynge &amp; ordynau~ces of the prelates and holy faders of
<PB REF="39"> the chirche / that by y^e holy gho&s;t haue ordred y^e &s;ame. And lykewy&s;e of other laudable cu&s;tomes of religyon in euery mona&s;tery / whiche ben made / ordeyned and contynued by auctorite / &amp; with di&s;crecyon &amp; wy&s;dom And yf it be nece&s;&s;ary to chaunge ony &s;uche cu&s;tomes or to make ony &s;tatutes or iniunccyons of newe / that &s;hold not be done ha&s;tely ne hedely / ne of lyght brayne without delyberacyon / ne yet of wyll and plea&s;ure / ne after the iudgement or wyll of two or thre alone / but by the hole chapytre. And as the more parte of y^e &s;enyours / wy&s;e &amp; dy&s;crete per&s;ones done determyne / &s;o let the &s;tatute / decre &amp; ordynaunce be made and &s;ta|bly&s;&s;hed. And euer in all &s;uche decrees or determyna|cyons / let them folowe more the auctorite and exam|ple of y^e chirche / than theyr owne rea&s;on or wyll. For euer / what is done of auctorite / is done of obedyence and humylite. And that is done of rea&s;on and wytte / is done many tymes of pre&s;umpcyon. And therfore all that is done in religyon / &s;holde be done with gra|uite / delyberacyon / and coun&s;eyle. The holy apo&s;tle Paule &s;ayd of hym&s;elfe / vnto the example of all rely|gyous per&s;ones.<NOTE PLACE="marg">ij. Co. j.</NOTE> I neuer v&s;ed (&s;ayd he) ony lyght|nes or varyaunt myndes / to &s;aye at one tyme / thus it is / or thus I wyll do: and after at an other tyme to &s;aye contrary / thus is it not / or &s;o I wyll not do. It is than neyther good hone&s;ty / nor relygyous / lyght|ly or ha&s;tely to chau~ge ony thynge of &s;ub&s;tau~ce with|out good cou~&s;eyle / and wy&s;e delyberacyon. And thus an ende of the &s;econde chapytre of your rule / and the expo&s;icyon.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>&para; The wretche of Syon Rycharde whytford.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="xxiiij" REF="39" MS="y">
<HEAD>&para; Here begynneth the thyrde chapytre of the rule.</HEAD>
<P>_CArnem ve&s;tra~ domate ieiunijs / et ab&s;ti|ne~tia e&s;ce et potus: quantu~ valitudo per|mittit. That is. Ye &s;hall al&s;o correcte &amp; re|bate your fle&s;&s;he and body by ab&s;tynence and fa&s;tynge from mete and drynke / as moche as your helth &amp; &s;trength may &s;uffre and bere. Here &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn begynneth to ordre y^e di&s;cyples of this rule vnto y^e &s;econde e&s;&s;encyall of religyon / that is the &s;econde princypall vowe of profe&s;&s;ed per&s;ones.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expo&s;y.</NOTE> Cha&s;tite. For in the two fyr&s;t chypytres (as ye haue &s;een) he dothe entreate of wylfull pouerte. Now here he entreateth of cha&s;tite / &amp; that in the ordrynge of his di&s;cyples therunto. whiche ordre &s;tandeth chefely in the&s;e thre poyntes. Ab&s;tinence / abieccyon &amp; &s;olytude / that is auoydynge of all lyght &amp; wanton company. For comynly tho&s;e per&s;ones ben called &s;olytary / that done lyue alone w^tout company. But how alone trowe you / &amp; without what company? Truly without the company of my&s;ordred per&s;ones. For who &s;o doth ac|company them&s;elfe with a multytuoe of aungels / or aungelycall &amp; holy per&s;ones / they done lyue in moo&s;t hygh &amp; re&s;tfull &s;olytude. And therfore &s;aynt Ierom &amp; many other holy per&s;ones dyd moche de&s;yre to lyue in a holy couent. Syth than cha&s;tite &s;tandeth groundly in the&s;e thre poyntes / it mu&s;t nede folowe y^t the ruyne and vtter de&s;truccyon of cha&s;tite cometh of y^e co~trary / that is to &s;aye / fedynge of the body / vayne apparayle of the &s;ame / &amp; wanton company. For the&s;e ben y^e mor|tall enemyes of cha&s;tite. Agayn&s;t whiche thre / &s;aynt
<PB REF="40"> Augu&s;tyn doth arme (by doctryne) his di&s;cyples / en|treatyng fyr&s;t of ab&s;tynence / &amp; &s;ayenge.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> Rebate you &amp; bry~ge lowe your body / as moche as ye may bere / not hyndryng your helth. The body mu&s;t be correcked by fa&s;tyng / but not oppre&s;&s;ed. How may ye knowe what the body may bere without domage or hurt of helth? Surely frendes by many experyences. Ye mu&s;t often tymes a&s;&s;ay to fa&s;te / and to forbere &s;omwhat of your wyll &amp; plea&s;ure / &s;o y^t &s;ome payne &amp; grefe y^e body haue therby / &amp; els it is no fa&s;te / for the fa&s;te &s;tandeth not &s;o moche in takynge fewe meles: as in takynge lytell w^t moderacyon &amp; good maner / without ha&s;tynes or gre|dynes / &amp; in forberyng dyuer&s;itees of metes / drynkes / and of tho&s;e dy&s;&s;hes that ben delycate &amp; plea&s;au~t. And that may ye proue by the texte that foloweth / whi|che ye &s;hall here after the expo&s;ycyon of</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gala. v.</NOTE>&para; The fle&s;&s;he euer &s;tryueth agayn&s;t the &s;piryte. And the &s;piryte agayn&s;t the fle&s;&s;he / &amp; therfore le&s;t the con|cupy&s;cence of the fle&s;&s;he &s;holde preuayle &amp; ouercome y^e &s;piryte / holy &s;pirytuall per&s;ones by y^e vertue of y^e &s;pi|ryte / mu&s;t depre&s;&s;e and holde vnder the frayle concu|pi&s;cence of y^e body.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> But this terme / as moche as helth wyll &s;uffre / doth co~mende dy&s;crecyon / the moder and may&s;tres of all vertue. For tho&s;e thynges y^t ben good of them&s;elfe done clerely pery&s;&s;he &amp; come to nought / yf they be done w^tout di&s;crecyon. So moche than (&s;ayth the rule) &s;holde euery di&s;ciple of y^e &s;ame rule puny&s;&s;he &amp; kepe lowe the body / as y^e helth therof wyl permytte and &s;uffre / and as nature may bere.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> For who &s;o wold puny&s;&s;he y^e body aboue due me&s;ure / they done rather &s;lee than puny&s;&s;he y^e body. And contrary / yf they che|ry&s;&s;he
<PB N="xxv" REF="40"> &amp; fede the fle&s;&s;he more than nede is / they done agayn&s;t them&s;elfe noury&s;&s;he an enemy. So therfore &s;hold the body be noury&s;&s;hed / y^t it may be able to &s;erue &amp; do all dutyes. And &s;o &s;holde he be holde vnder / that he rebell not ne waxe proude. In all ab&s;tynence / this &s;holde alway be ob&s;erued / that vyce / &amp; not y^e vertue &amp; &s;trength of nature be quenched. The lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Io. ca&s;&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+nus ii.ii<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> de i~&s;titu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> renu~cian+tium. ca. xviij. Expo&s;y.</NOTE> Cu~ aute~ aliquis no~ pote&s;t ieiunare: no~ tame~ extra hora~ prandij aliq^id alimento&abrum; &s;umat / ni&s;i cu~ egrotat. That is. And yf ony of you may not fa&s;te / yet &s;hall they take no fode be&s;yde meletyme / but whan they ben &s;eke. The di&s;cy+ples of this rule mu&s;t (after &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn) kepe in theyr fedynge / that is to &s;aye / etynge and drynkynge thre pry~cypal poyntes. The fyr&s;t is / y^t they no thynge excede in qualite nor qua~tite of fode / whiche bothe ben conteyned in the texte before. where is &s;ayd they &s;hall ab&s;teyne as moche (with di&s;crecyon) as nature may bere. Than dothe folowe of rea&s;on / they may not in quantite / take ouer moche fode / &amp; al&s;o for the qualite / that they de&s;yre no delycates / more for plea&s;ure than for nede: in y^e re&s;traynynge than of the&s;e twayne / that is to &s;aye / moche fare / many dy&s;&s;hes &amp; deyntyes &s;tan+deth the kepynge lowe of the body / as for one parte / &amp; that for the moo&s;t chefe parte. The &s;econde / that is to &s;aye / the tyme of fedyng / is conteyned in this pre&s;ent text. where is &s;ayd / that no di&s;ciples of this rule &s;hall ony fode receyue out of y^e due houre / &amp; that all though they may not fa&s;t / by y^e wordes of whiche text / playn+ly appereth that &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne by this terme fa&s;te meneth rather the forberynge of mete / than of meles. For he wyll y^t &s;uche per&s;ones as may away withall / &s;holde be &s;mall feders / &amp; to be content w^t what &s;o euer
<PB REF="41"> they fynde before them. The other y^t may not bere the labours of religyon / without more large fedyng / or y^t can not away with gros fare / may (by this text) fede more largely / &amp; de&s;yre (with mekenes) that may con|forte them: &s;o alway they take it in due tyme. For the kepers of this rule / may not be lyke vnto bee&s;tly per|&s;ones / nor yet vnto worldly per&s;ones / that done ete &amp; drynke at euery houre &amp; tyme whan they wyll. But we mu&s;t kepe y^e very due tyme a&s;&s;ygned. And that is with you / whan your chapitre is done / &amp; the houre of terce: to take a lytell repa&s;te / rather to refre&s;&s;he than to &s;ede nature / &amp; therfore ye may take y^t tyme but ve|ry lytell / &amp; be co~tented w^t one ky~de &amp; maner of mete / as yf ye take browes or potage / ye may not take fle&s;&s;he. And yf ye take colde fle&s;&s;he lefte ouer euen (for hote fle&s;&s;he is neuer &s;erued that tyme / but vnto the &s;eke) ye may not take browes ne potage / &amp; yf ye take egges or butter / be co~tent with one alone / &amp; &s;o of all other. The &s;econde tyme of fedyng is at dyner from grace be &s;ayd in the couent / vnto grace be &s;ayd in the chirche / &amp; lyke wy&s;e at &s;ouper. Tymes of drynky~ge ben al&s;o / from y^e fyr&s;t &s;ygne or pele vnto euen&s;onge vnto y^e la&s;t. And fro~ the fyr&s;t pele vnto collacyo~ / vnto y^e la&s;t: at whiche two tymes no maner of mete may be take~ / but onely brede &amp; drynke / as vpon fa&s;ty~ge dayes. We haue herein ben very lo~ge / bycau&s;e we haue &s;een this poy~t of y^e rule in many places ferre ouerpa&s;&s;ed. The thyrde / y^t is to &s;ay of the place of fedynge / &s;hall folowe after ye haue here vpon herde</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The moo&s;t princypall vyce of all the .vij. princypal vyces / is glotony. For y^e temptacyon &amp; a&s;&s;ayle of this vyce / is exercy&s;ed in very &s;mall thynges / and of lytell
<PB N="xxvj" REF="41"> valure. For Adam y^e fyr&s;t man was not te~pted to ete ony precyous mete / but a poore apple. Nor yet E&s;au to ete a plouer / but a poore me&s;&s;e of potage. And our &s;auyour hym&s;elfe was not te~pted to ete fle&s;&s;he or de|licate fode / but bare brede alone. Of this vyce ben thre maners / or thre ky~des. One is / whan fode / that is to &s;aye / mete or drynke / is taken immoderately beyonde due me&s;ure. The &s;econde / whan very delycate &amp; deyn+ty fode is de&s;yred. The thyrde / whan y^e fode is taken out of due tyme. Out of due tyme I &s;uppo&s;e / ony ty|me before the houre of terce be done. For before y^t tyme becometh not ony religious per&s;ones to take ony fode excepte they ben &s;eke. The &s;eke &abper;&s;ones may take fode in ony houre. For vnto the &s;eke is no lawe appoynted but vnto them that ben not &s;eke / &amp; done not fa&s;te y^e due houre we appoynt / from y^e houre of terce vnto y^e houre of &s;exte. And for them that done fa&s;te / from y^e houre of none forth / at ony co~uenyent tyme. For &s;yth y^e apo&s;tle Paule co~mau~deth all thynges to be done hone&s;tly / &amp; after due ordre:<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co. xiiij</NOTE> relygyous per&s;ones &s;holde not onely ob&s;erue &amp; kepe in theyr fedynge due temperau~ce / but al&s;o the due tyme &amp; houres appoynted. For religyous per&s;ones mu&s;t alwaye auoyde all occa&s;yons. And no thynge it becometh them that &s;holde be vnto all other fourme &amp; example of perfeccyon / to be founde in theyr owne lyfe reprouable. The lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Io. ca&s;&s;ianus li. iiii. de <ABBR>in&s;ti+tut.</ABBR> renu~cian tiu~. ca. xvii.</NOTE> Cum acceditis ad men&s;am / donec inde &s;urgatis: quod vobis &s;ecu~du~ con+&s;uetudine~ legitur: &s;ine tumultu et co~tentionibus au|dite / ne &s;ole vobis fauces &s;uma~t cibu~:<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. nec &s;ole.</NOTE> &s;ed &amp; aures e&s;u|riant verbu~ dei. That is.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. &abper;cipiant.</NOTE> And whan ye be &s;et at y^e ta|ble / ye mu&s;t co~tynually vnto y^e tyme ye ry&s;e therfrom gyue good eere / and without noy&s;e or co~tencyon / take
<PB REF="42"> good hede what (after your cu&s;tome) is redde among you / that not onely your mouth take mete / but your eeres &amp; herynge: do al&s;o honger &amp; de&s;yre the worde of god.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expo&s;y.</NOTE> Here is the thyrde poynt I &s;pake of / required vn+to the fedynge of relygyous per&s;ones / that is to &s;aye due place / &amp; that is the table in y^e fratour. For yf they kepe the precepte before immediate / that they take no fode but at mele tyme. It mu&s;t nede folowe by this lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> Whan ye go to the table &amp; ben &s;et therat: that y^e &s;ame table is the due place of fedynge / wherby dothe playnly appere / that to ete goynge aboute (as childer done &amp; gredy labourers) is moche agayn&s;t di&s;cyplyne and the good maner of religyon / &amp; that all though it were w^tin the fratour / &amp; in due tyme al&s;o: moche more yf it were done in ony other place without y^e fratour. For at mele tyme they mu&s;t all / not onely take theyr fode &s;yttyng at y^e table / but al&s;o take good hede what is redde: &amp; none may ry&s;e from y^e table w^tout &s;pecyall lycence openly axed in the myddle of y^e fratour / &amp; that al&s;o for a nedefull cau&s;e / excepte y^e &s;eruytour: and yet may they take no fode in y^t mele tyme / except a very &amp; vnfeyned nede / and that euer by lycence / as before is &s;ayd. For the &s;eruytours may take repa&s;te euery day fa&s;tynge &amp; other dayes / after y^e houre of none / &amp; before the fratour grace / excepte they toke theyr mixtu~ / and brekefa&s;t before in the tyme therof / &amp; yet may they af|terward at the latter dyner / or otherwy&s;e (as &s;emeth conuenyent) make an ende of theyr dyner.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Tho per&s;ones done honger the worde of god / that haue de&s;yre &amp; plea&s;ure to here it. For many per&s;ones done here many holy le&s;&s;ons / &amp; yet they go away ther
<PB N="xxvij" REF="42"> from voyde &amp; without fruyte or &abpro;fyte. For they haue none affecte / no de&s;yre / ne plea&s;ure therin / they fele no &s;auour therof. For what &s;o euer they here / they &s;oone forgete / it cometh in at y^e one ere (as y^e co~mun &s;ayenge is) and gothe out at the other / &amp; therfore they ben not worthy to here that they here. Where contrary / tho&s;e that done honger and thur&s;t iu&s;tyce / ben ble&s;&s;ed of our lorde / &amp; for theyr rewarde they &s;hall (&s;ayth &s;cripture) be full fedde and &s;aty&s;fyed.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. v.</NOTE> And why &s;hall they be &s;o fedde? bycau&s;e they fyr&s;t had honger &amp; de&s;yre. That honger than &amp; de&s;yre of goodnes / cau&s;eth the per&s;one to be after fedde &amp; &s;aty&s;fyed. Fyr&s;t than mu&s;t the reli|gyous &abper;&s;ones prepare &amp; ordeyne theyr hertes &amp; myn|des to honger &amp; de&s;yre the worde of god / &amp; than wyll his grace be pre&s;ent / and vi&s;yte &amp; confort them w^t his &s;wetnes / &amp; refre&s;&s;he them with his &s;auour &amp; ta&s;te / &s;o that they &s;hall haue delectacyon &amp; plea&s;ure in his cha+rite. Wherof is &s;ayd.<NOTE PLACE="marg">&abpre;&s;. cxviij.</NOTE> Qua~ dulcia faucibus meis elo|quia tua: &s;u&abper; mel ori meo. That is. How moche more &s;wete ben thy wordes (lorde) vnto my &s;oule / than is hony vnto my mouth? and agayne.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibidem.</NOTE> Thy lawe (good lorde) &amp; doctryne is better &amp; more precyous vnto me / than ony &s;um of golde or &s;yluer. We &s;hold therfore not onely &s;yt at the bodyly table &amp; receyue the fode of y^e bo|dy / but al&s;o at y^e &s;pirytuall &amp; heuenly table of our lord / and there receyue the fode of the &s;oule. For &s;pirytuall per&s;ones &s;hold euer haue more delectacyon &amp; plea&s;ure in the fode of the &s;oule than of the body. But whan &s;o euer holy &s;cripture and &s;pirytual doctryne is redde a|monge them / they &s;holde thynke veryly that is &s;piry|tuall fode / &s;ente vnto them from our lorde to refre&s;&s;he theyr hertes / y^t they feynt not in theyr iourney of this
<PB REF="43"> lyfe / &amp; to make them al&s;o &s;tronge &amp; myghty to re&s;y&s;t y^e temptacyons of the fende / the ieoperdyes of y^e worlde and the a&s;&s;ayles of the frayle fle&s;&s;he. This fode &s;holde religyous per&s;ones alwaye honger &amp; de&s;yre without ce&s;ynge / y^t they myght &s;ay w^t the prophete. In corde meo ab&s;condi eloquia tua: vt no~ peccem tibi. That is. I haue hyd as precious trea&s;ure / &amp; locked vp thy holy worde in my hert / le&s;t I &s;holde offende thy gracyous goodnes. Who &s;o euer dothe hyde &amp; clo&s;e vp y^e worde of god in theyr hertes / &s;hall therby noury&s;&s;he and fede theyr &s;oules in vertue. For y^e worde of god is y^e quycke and lyuely fode of the &s;oule / whiche defendeth y^e &s;oule from the deth of &s;ynne / &amp; al&s;o ledeth the &s;oule vnto lyf eterne &amp; euerla&s;tynge.<NOTE PLACE="marg">&abpre;&s;. cxviij.</NOTE> The lettre. Qui infirmi &s;unt ex pri&s;tina con&s;uetudine: &s;i aliter tractantur in victu: no~ alijs mole&s;tu~ e&s;&s;e debet: nec iniu&s;tu~ videri eis / quos fecit aliqua &abcon;&s;uetudo fortiores. That is. And yf &s;uche per&s;ones as of olde cu&s;tome ben feble / weyke or di&s;ea|&s;ed / ben otherwy&s;e entreated / &amp; otherwy&s;e prouyded fore / than the other per&s;ones that ben hole / &amp; by y^e v&s;e of hardnes ben more &s;tronge in nature: let not the hole per&s;ones grudge / ne ony thynge be greued therwith / nor thynke it wronge / or contrary iu&s;tyce that they &s;o haue. Whan &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne had a&s;&s;ygned vnto the dy&s;cyples of this rule the due fourme of fa&s;tynge / as well in y^e qualite &amp; maner of metes / as in y^e quantite &amp; porcyon therof / &amp; al&s;o for y^e due tyme &amp; place / he dothe here in this lettre except &s;uche &abper;&s;ones as of good rea|&s;on may be accepted accordynge vnto y^e comune lawe / that is to &s;aye / &s;eke &amp; feble per&s;ones / vnto whome no certayne lawe of fedynge is appoynted. And yet by|cau&s;e y^t &s;ome per&s;ones may be in a co~munalte / y^t haue
<PB N="xxviij" REF="43"> not alway charitable con&s;yderacyon / &amp; therfore wyll grudge to &s;e theyr felowes be more chery&s;&s;hed than they ben: &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn doth here labour to appea&s;e &s;uche &abper;&s;ones by good rea&s;on / wyllynge y^e euery &abper;&s;one without parcialite / &s;holde be &s;erued accordynge vnto nece&s;&s;ite and nede. The rea&s;on &s;hall folowe / after</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The hole per&s;ones &s;holde by no meanes grudge ne be dy&s;content / whan they &s;e the &s;eke per&s;ones mercy|fully &amp; charitably entreated / but rather bycau&s;e they ben hole &amp; &s;tronge / they &s;holde kepe more &s;traytly the rygour of ab&s;tynence for them&s;elfe / &amp; for the &s;eke al&s;o. And &s;o &s;hold they bere charitably by co~pa&s;&s;yon &amp; pyte the imbecillite &amp; feblenes of theyr felowes. The texte. Nec illos feliciores pute~t: quia &s;umu~t quod no~ &s;umu~t ip&s;i: &s;ed &s;ibi potius gratulent&abur; / quia valent <ABBR>qd</ABBR> no~ vale~t illi. That is. Nor yet &s;holde they thynke the feble per+&s;ones more happy or better at ea&s;e / bycau&s;e they haue that they haue not / but rather &s;holde they reioyce &amp; be glad of them&s;elfe / &amp; thanke god / that they ben able to do / that they be not.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expo&s;y.</NOTE> Here doth &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn &s;hewe the rea&s;on I &s;pake of / why y^e hole per&s;ones &s;holde not grudge at the chery&s;&s;hynge of y^e &s;eke / that is / bycau&s;e they ben more happy / &amp; better at ea&s;e that ben hole &amp; &s;tronge w^t harde fare / than they ben y^t ben &s;eke &amp; feble with al delicates &amp; welfare / all though y^e gloton y^t ma+keth his bely his god / wolde &s;uffre grete payne to fa|rewell.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; For fa&s;tynge is better than fedyng / fa&s;tyng is ver|tue / &amp; fedynge is of feblenes. They therfore may re|ioyce &amp; thanke god / that of his gyft &amp; grace they haue &s;uche helth &amp; &s;trength / wherby they &abpro;fyte in vertue
<PB REF="44"> and go forth / &amp; be content with co~mune fare / without de&s;yre of delycates or plenty. For the le&s;&s;e de&s;yre &amp; ap|petyte they haue vnto plea&s;ure / the more &s;trayte and perfyte is theyr lyfe / &amp; they more happy &amp; ble&s;&s;ed. For our &s;auyour &s;ayd:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. vij.</NOTE> the harde path and &s;trayte waye / ledeth moo&s;t &s;urely vnto bly&s;&s;e. Let them than moo&s;t ioye &amp; be glad / that (for our lord) may lyue moo&s;t hard+ly. For the harde lyfe dothe &s;lee &s;ynne / and quenche all carnall plea&s;ure. Bredeth &amp; multyplyeth vertue / con|forteth the herte / &amp; maketh the &s;oule hardy and bolde agayn&s;t all enemyes / &amp; lyfteth it vp towarde heuen. The lettre. Et &s;i eis qui veneru~t ex moribus delica|tioribus ad mona&s;terium:<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. habet etia~ &s;tra|me~toru~.</NOTE> aliquid alimentoru~ / ve&s;ti|mentoru~ / operimentoru~ datur: quod alijs fortioribus et ideo felicioribus / non datur: cogitare debent quibus non datur: quantum de &s;ua &s;eculari vita / illi ad i&s;tam de&s;cenderint: &abquam;uis v&s;&abque; ad aliorum / qui &s;unt corpore firmiores:<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. fortio|res.</NOTE> frugalitatem peruenire nequiueri~t. That is. And yf vnto &s;uche per&s;ones as haue come in to the mona&s;tery from delycate educacyon and tender bryn|gynge vp / ony fode / clothynge / or other nece&s;&s;aryes be gyuen / that vnto y^e &s;tronger per&s;ones be not gyuen whiche per&s;ones / in that they be &s;tronger / ben more happy and better at ea&s;e / let not them grudge therat / but rather let them co~&s;ydre and wey / how lowe they came downe / that lefte &amp; for&s;oke theyr &s;eculer lyfe of plea&s;ure / to come vnto this lyf of hardnes / all though they be not able to attayne vnto &s;uche profyte and la|bours / as other that ben more &s;tronge in body.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expo&s;y.</NOTE> Fyr&s;t (ye may perceyue) &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn dyd excepte from the rygour of fa&s;tynge all &s;eke per&s;ones / &amp; &s;hewed the rea&s;on therof. Here he dothe al&s;o excepte tendre per&s;o|nes
<PB N="xxix" REF="44"> that haue ben brought vp in welth and plea&s;ure as ben the chylder of &s;tates / gentylmen and ryche fol+kes / whome he wolde not exclude from relygyon / all though they myght not awaye with harde fare / ne grete labours / but he wolde they &s;holde be entreated accordynge vnto theyr nede: &s;o he co~maunded in the begynnynge of this rule / that all per&s;ones &s;holde not haue lyke entreatynge / but euery per&s;one as nede re|quireth. And the rea&s;on therof foloweth in the lettre / as ye &s;hall here after your</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The rea&s;on why the delycate per&s;ones &s;holde be otherwy&s;e entreated than theyr company / is bycau&s;e they came downe &s;o lowe / and therfore &s;holde they be &s;uffred and borne / not for theyr hygh blode honoured / but for theyr nece&s;&s;yte fauoured / as foloweth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Variant&abur; verba in originali</NOTE> Nec debent velle omnes / quod paucos vident amplius ac|cipere: non quia honorantur / &s;ed quia tolerant&abur;. Qua|re? Ne contingat dete&s;tanda peruer&s;itas: vt in mo|na&s;terio: vbi (quantum po&s;&s;unt) fiunt diuites laborio|&s;i: fiant pauperes delicati. That is. Nor yet all the hole company &s;holde de&s;yre to haue / that they &s;e a fewe &abper;&s;ones haue aboue them / whiche thynge they &s;o haue / not bycau&s;e they ben had in more honour / reuerence / or fauour: but bycau&s;e they ben more &s;uf|fred and borne. And why &s;holde they not haue all in lyke? Lee&s;t therby &s;holde happe or fall a grete per|uer&s;yte and abhomynable dy&s;ordre / that in the mo|na&s;terye where (vnto theyr &s;trengthe and power) the ryche and noble per&s;ones / &s;holde be laboryous / and alwaye occupyed: the poore per&s;ones be made delycate and ydle.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expo&s;y.</NOTE> &para; This is the rea&s;on that I
<PB REF="45"> &s;pake of / why all per&s;ones &s;hold not be &s;erued in lyke / for than wolde the poore per&s;ones of harde educacyon waxe delycate and ydle. For delycate fare wyll &s;oone make y^e per&s;ones y^t were not v&s;ed therunto &s;louthful &amp; dull / &amp; the more vnable to labour &amp; do theyr duty. And co~trary / good welfare w^tout &s;uperfluite / wyll make y^e tendre per&s;ones more &s;tro~ge / w^tout whiche they were not able to perfourme theyr due labours. And &s;o this rule doth &s;uffre y^e tendre per&s;ones to haue delicates / &amp; vnto the harder per&s;ones dothe forbede them / &amp; that is / bycau&s;e they &s;hold all be labourers. For &s;aynt Au|gu&s;tyne wyll not that ony ydle per&s;one be of his rule / excepte the &s;eke / for the tyme.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; It is (doubtles) moche dete&s;table &amp; hatefull / that poore per&s;ones there be made delycate &amp; ydle / where the per&s;ones of grete byrth / &amp; large po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yons / done coueyte &amp; de&s;yre to be labourers / &amp; to kepe ab&s;tynence. And yet (more harme is) that is ofte &s;een in many mo+na&s;teryes. For many y^t in the worlde were ryght no|ble &amp; ryche / done in the mona&s;tery lyue y^e more poorely therfore / &amp; ben glad to be abiecte &amp; &s;et at nought. And contrary / many y^t in the worlde were vyle creatures / wretches / beggers &amp; of moo&s;t lowe byrth / wyll in the mona&s;tery loke to haue honoure / reuerence / preemy|nence / &amp; take more vpon them than ony other &abper;&s;ones. Whiche thynge (as is &s;ayd) is very dete&s;table / &amp; to be abhorred. For they renne by y^e brode waye vnto euer|la&s;tynge payne / where the other done go by y^e &s;trayte &amp; narowe path vnto Ioye &amp; bly&s;&s;e eterne. The lettre. Sane que~admodu~ egrotantes nece&s;&s;e habent minus accipere ne graue~tur: ita &amp; po&s;t egritudine~ &s;ic tracta~di
<PB N="xxx" REF="45"> &s;unt: vt cui&abus; re creentur / etia~ &s;i de humillima <ABBR>&s;cli</ABBR> pau|pertate veneru~t / tan&abquam; hoc illis &abcon;tulerit recentior egri|tudo: <ABBR>qd</ABBR> diuitib&abus; anterior co~&s;uetudo. That is. And yet as it is nece&s;&s;ary for the &s;eke per&s;ones to kepe dyete &amp; take y^e le&s;&s;e fode / le&s;t they be greued &amp; hurt: &s;o is it con+uenyent / that after theyr &s;ekenes they be &s;o entreated and chery&s;&s;hed / that y^e &s;ooner they may be recouered. And y^t all though wha~ they came in to religyon / they were in moo&s;t depe pouerte of the worlde / as though theyr late &s;ekenes &amp; dy&s;ea&s;e &s;holde put them in &s;uche ca&s;e of tendernes / as dyd the ryche &amp; noble per&s;ones theyr fore v&s;ed cu&s;tome.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expo&s;y.</NOTE> Here &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne dothe except from the rygour of fa&s;tynge the thyrde maner of per&s;ones. For the fyr&s;t were the &s;eke per&s;ones. Se|conde y^e per&s;ones of delycate educacyon &amp; tendre bryn|gynge vp. The thyrde here / ben tho&s;e y^t haue ben &s;eke and ben not fully recouered / whiche per&s;ones ben co|mynly tendre a good whyle after theyr &s;ekenes / and therfore had nede of the more chery&s;&s;hynge &amp; good en|treatynge / for els they myght &s;oone fall agayne in to &s;ekenes / &amp; &s;o be in wor&s;e ca&s;e tha~ before. But yet wyll not &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn / they take ony cu&s;tome therin / as after is &s;hewed in y^e lettre / whiche ye &s;hall here / after your expo&s;itour holy</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Some infirmytees &amp; dy&s;ea&s;es ben rather hyndred than cured by fedynge / &amp; than is it nece&s;&s;ary the &s;eke per&s;ones take lytel fode / le&s;t they hyndre nature / &amp; yet whan y^e &s;ekenes is cured / &amp; the per&s;ones weyke &amp; fe|ble / they mu&s;t &s;o be &s;een to / that they may the &s;ooner be recouered. And in this maner of entreaty &amp; chery&s;|&s;hynge / may be no parcialite / no difference bytwene y^e poore &amp; the ryche. For the &s;ame tendernes is cau&s;ed in
<PB REF="46"> the poore per&s;ones by &s;ekenes / whiche was in the ry+che &amp; noble per&s;ones by v&s;e &amp; cu&s;tome of theyr educa|cyon. And who &s;o be mercyfull vnto y^e nedy / almygh|ty god wyll be mercyfull vnto them. For he &s;ayd hym &s;elfe.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. v.</NOTE> Ble&s;&s;ed be the mercyfull per&s;ones / for they &s;hall gete and wynne mercy. And holy &s;aynt Ioh~n &s;ayth. Who &s;o &s;eeth &amp; perceyueth his broder in nede / &amp; dothe clo&s;e his bowelles fro~ hym / that is to &s;ay / doth with|drawe from hym compa&s;&s;yon and pyte:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioh~. iij.</NOTE> how may the charite of our lord and fader abyde and dwell in hym? as though he &s;ayd: he hath not charite. Yf we than wyll haue the charite of our lorde and fader / we mu&s;t exercy&s;e and werke charite vnto our company. And yf we &s;o do / we &s;hall (doubtles) do hym &s;eruyce / that in the la&s;t iudgement &s;hall &s;aye vnto vs.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xxv</NOTE> I was &s;eke and ye dyd vi&s;yte and conforte me / and therfore this &s;hall be your rewarde. The po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon of the realme &amp; kyngdome of bly&s;&s;e / whiche is ordeyned for you from the begynnynge of the worlde. Yf than we &s;erue our felowes for our lorde / the kyngdome of heuen &s;hall be our reward. And &s;o for temporall &amp; tran&s;ytory labour we &s;hall haue wages &amp; rewarde euerla&s;tynge. The lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">. l. recu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">eraueri~t</NOTE> Sed cu~ vires pri&s;tinas reparaueri~t: redea~t ad feliciore~ &abcon;&s;uetudine~ &s;ua~. That is. But notw^t&s;tandyng wha~ they haue recouered theyr old &s;trength &amp; myght &amp; ben hole / let them than returne vnto theyr more hap+py &amp; gracyous cu&s;tom of harde lyuynge.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expo&s;y.</NOTE> Here ye may &s;e / &s;ay~t Augu&s;tyn (as I &s;ayd) wyl not y^t the di&s;cyples of this rule haue ony cu&s;tom in delycates more tha~ is very nedefull to &s;trength them vnto theyr duty. For y^e cu&s;tom of harde lyuynge is more gracyous / &amp; of more meryte than y^e other / &s;o &s;ayth</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<PB N="xxxj" REF="46">
<P>&para; The v&s;e of ab&s;tynence / is an happy and gracyous cu&s;tom / but more happy &amp; gracyous is by y^t cu&s;tom to cha&s;ty&s;e &amp; &s;ubdue y^e body in to &s;eruytude &amp; thraldom / but yet mo&s;t happy &amp; gracyous is y^t cu&s;tom / that by y^e &s;ame &s;eruytude &amp; thraldom of y^e body doth cutte &amp; ca&s;t clene away all carnall de&s;yres &amp; plea&s;ures / whiche al way done kepe batayle &amp; open warre agayn&s;t y^e &s;oule The lettre. Que famulos dei tanto amplius decet: qua~to min&abus; indige~t / ne cibi eos teneat voluptas ia~ ve|getatos: quos nece&s;&s;itas leuarat infirmos. That is.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. nec ibi e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+teneat vol<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+tas iam ve<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+tos: quo ne<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+&s;itas leuar<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> infirmos.</NOTE> whiche cu&s;tom becometh y^e &s;eruau~tes of god &s;o moche the rather / y^t now they haue no nede of delycates / &amp; al+&s;o le&s;t by cu&s;tom y^e plea&s;ure of delycate fare / &s;holde con+tynue w^t them y^t now ben hole / whome very nece&s;&s;ite releued whan they were &s;eke.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expo&s;y.</NOTE> Here &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne doth &s;hewe two rea&s;ons why y^e per&s;ones fully recoue+red / &s;holde lyue as they dyd before w^t co~mune fode / w^t|out delycates: one cau&s;e is / bycau&s;e they haue no nede of &s;uche fode. And y^e di&s;cyples of this rule &s;hold neuer take fode for plea&s;ure / but for nede to make them able (as is &s;ayd) to do theyr duty. The &s;econde rea&s;on is / bycau&s;e the cu&s;tome of delycates &s;holde not engendre plea&s;ure. For it is a very harde thynge to remoue and breke a cu&s;tome / &amp; therfore &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn wyll his di&s;cyples &s;hall accu&s;tom &amp; v&s;e them&s;elfe to lyue with as harde fare as nature may bere. Now herke vnto</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; For the relefe and recouery of dy&s;ea&s;e and &s;ekenes / it is nece&s;&s;ary to cure and chery&s;&s;he the body. But whan the body is recouered vnto full &s;trength / than mu&s;t that cure be taken awaye and layde on parte / lee&s;t the plea&s;ure of delycate fode / &s;holde holde and
<PB REF="47"> kepe the &s;eruauntes of god in pry&s;on. And &s;oo cau&s;e them that &s;holde do &s;eruyce vnto ab&s;tynence for the welth of theyr &s;oules / to be as bonde &s;eruauntes vn|to glotony. The le&s;&s;e nede therfore they haue / the mo|re it becometh them to ordre &s;oo them &s;elfe / that they be not teyed ne holden with the plea&s;ure of delycate fare / le&s;t therby the vyce of glotony do robbe and take awaye the vertues of the &s;oule. For no per&s;one may wynne and gete the palme and vyctory of &s;pirytuall batayle / but that fyr&s;t wyll (by ab&s;tynence) &s;lee and quenche the concupy&s;cence and vayne plea&s;ure of the body. Nor yet &s;hall we be able to begyn &s;pirytuall ba+tayle / except we fyr&s;t within our &s;elfe do vaynquy&s;&s;he and ouercome the appetyte of glotony. For except we fyr&s;t ouercome our moo&s;t nere enemyes / we &s;hall but all in vayne make batayle w^t ferther enemyes. Some per&s;ones that well done purpo&s;e &amp; well entende / done lytell care for glotony / &amp; in maner done forgete it / and &s;et lytell therby / &amp; yet wyll they enforce &amp; able them &s;elfe vnto &s;pyrytuall batayle / and doo very &s;trongly therin: bere grete labours / kepe y^e quere contynually / be from none ob&s;eruaunce / watche / praye / take di&s;cy|plynes / with many other &s;trayte and hard puny&s;&s;he|mentes. But yet they wyll fare well / and therfore by+cau&s;e they knowe not the due ordre of &s;pirytuall ba|tayle / whan glotony hath rule and dominacyon / they vtterly done lo&s;e all the werkes of theyr grete &amp; be&s;y diligence. For yf the bely be not re&s;trayned by due ab|&s;tynence / all the vertues done pery&s;&s;he by negligence. We haue therof a fygure and holy &s;cripture in y^e boke of kynges / where is redde / that the prynce and capy|tayne of the cokes / dyd de&s;troye the walles of Ieru|&s;alem<NOTE PLACE="marg">ij. Re. r&abis;</NOTE>
<PB N="xxxij" REF="47">
/ that is to meane / that glotony (yf the wombe be not re&s;trayned by due ab&s;tynence) doth vtterly de|&s;troye the vertues of the &s;oule.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Num~. xj</NOTE> An other fygure of the cho&s;en people of our lorde / that after they had ben de|lyuered out of the grete captyuyte and thraldome of egypte / dyd &s;uffre penau~ce &amp; deth in wyldernes / by|cau&s;e they &s;et at nought &amp; de&s;py&s;ed the holy fode &s;ent from heuen called manna / and de&s;yred rather to fede vpon fle&s;&s;he and other co~mune metes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen~. xxv</NOTE> E&s;au al&s;o for a poore me&s;&s;e of potage (to fulfyll his carnall concupy&s;|cence) dyd &s;ell his enherytaunce / &amp; &s;o lo&s;t the honour and dignite that belonged therunto. The vyce &amp; de|faute therfore / is not in the mete / but in the frayle &amp; foli&s;the appetyte. And therfore whan we oftentymes done de&s;yre &amp; take delycates / we done offende therin / excepte we haue nede of them / and lykewy&s;e / yf we take the gro&s;&s;e metes for plea&s;ure / that afterwarde done hyndre or trouble nature. For that fode &s;hold we alwaye take / that nature hath nede of / and not that &s;holde engendre an appetyte &amp; de&s;yre of fedynge. The lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. Illi &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> extiment.</NOTE> Illos e&s;timent ditiores / q^i in &s;u&s;tinenda parci|tate fuerit fortiores. That is. And let them euer thyn|ke &amp; iudge tho&s;e per&s;ones moo&s;t ryche &amp; moo&s;t noble / that to bere &amp; &s;uffre hardnes ben moo&s;t &s;tronge &amp; her|ty.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expo&s;y.</NOTE> Ye may hereby co~&s;ydre / that &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn wyll not that religyon &s;holde make per&s;ones of lowe byrth &amp; hardnes to be delycate gentylmen / as though theyr gentry &amp; ryches &s;tode in delycate fare / but rather that all the noblenes &amp; ryches of religyous &abper;&s;ones / &s;holde &s;tande in the rygour &amp; moo&s;t &s;trayte ob&s;eruau~ce of re|ligyon / &amp; that wolde &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn they &s;holde by|leue &amp; thynke for trouth. For that byleue &s;hall herten
<PB REF="48"> and courage them to &s;uffre hardnes / and no thynge to delyte in delycates.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; By the fortytude and &s;trengthe of harde lyuynge / vices and &s;ynnes ben repre&s;&s;ed and de&s;troyed. And by the mortyfycacyon of vyces / groweth and &s;pryngeth a good begynnyng of vertue. And vertues goten and &s;hette or locked vp in the tre&s;oury of the herte / ben the very true ryche&s;&s;es of the &s;oule. And therfore doth fo|lowe in the lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte. <ABBR>Eccl.</ABBR> x. in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ine.</NOTE> Melius e&s;t enim minus egere: &abquam; plus habere. This lettre may be taken dyuer&s;ly / and &s;oo therafter dyuer&s;ly expowned. One waye it may &s;ignyfye in engly&s;&s;he this &s;entence. Better is it &s;om|what to nede and want / than to haue ony thynge to moche.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expo&s;y.</NOTE> And this expo&s;ycyon dothe moche accorde vn|to the begynnyng of this chapytre / where &s;aynt Au|gu&s;tyn wyll that generally all the dy&s;cyples of this rule / &s;holde lyue as hardly as theyr naturall &s;trength may bere / and that is euer to nede and lacke / rather than to haue ony thynge to moche. And it agreeth well with the &s;entence next before / wherby we mu&s;t thynke them moo&s;t ryche / not that haue what they nede after theyr de&s;yre / but that haue &s;trengthe to want / and to forbere that is nedefull. An other waye it may be taken after this engly&s;&s;he. Better is it / no thynge to nede / than to haue ony more than nedeth. And this expo&s;ycyon may al&s;o accorde well with the nexte lettre before. For they ben more ryche and better at ea&s;e / that haue &s;trength to be content with ynough and that dothe &s;uffy&s;e nature / than they ben that by cu&s;tome mu&s;t take &s;omwhat more than wold &s;uffy&s;e nature. For nature well accu&s;tomed / wyll be content
<PB N="xxxiij" REF="48"> with a lytell. And to this expo&s;ycyon accordeth the &s;ayenge of the holy &abpro;phete.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Prou.</ABBR> xxj</NOTE> Ne&abque; diuitias ne&abque; pau|pertates dederis mihi: &s;ed tantum victui meo tribue nece&s;&s;aria. That is. Gyue me (good lorde) neythe ry|che&s;&s;e ne pouerte / but onely that is nedefull vnto my dayly lyuynge. After this &s;entence than / the lettre &s;ayth. It is better not to nede / that is to &s;aye / to haue &s;uffycyent / and therwith to be content / than to haue ony thynge more.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> For that more / is euer occa&s;yon of &s;ynne. Your commune engly&s;&s;he prouerbe hath here good place. Better is ynough / than a fee&s;t.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE></P>
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<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; It is better to &s;uffre &s;ome nede for the loue of our lorde / than to haue ouermoche plenty and welthe. For the nede and pouerte that is &s;uffred for our lorde dothe engendre and buylde humylite and mekenes. And contrary / ouermoche welthe and plenty / bryn|geth forth pryde / the one is rote and begynnynge of all vertues / the other welle and heed of all vyces. The relygyous per&s;ones therfore / that ben y^e vowed and profe&s;&s;ed &s;eruauntes of our lorde / &s;holde (for his loue) repre&s;&s;e and re&s;trayne the voluptuous plea&s;ure and frayle appetyte of the fle&s;&s;he / and that is euer to drawe by cu&s;tome vnto &s;traytnes / and to be content with a lytell. And &s;oo to de&s;yre &s;omwhat le&s;&s;e fode / le&s;&s;e clothynge / le&s;&s;e chery&s;&s;hynge / than is nece&s;&s;ary / takynge alwaye &s;ome payne for the rewarde that &s;hall come therof.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom~. vij</NOTE> We haue (as &s;aynt Paule &s;ayth) two men / an outwarde man / and an inwarde man / that is to &s;aye / the fle&s;&s;he / and the &s;piryte / or the bo|dy / and the &s;oule / and eche mu&s;t helpe other / and euer
<PB REF="49"> rea&s;on mu&s;t be equall iudge bytwene them / that the body be kepte as a bounde &s;eruau~t &s;ubdued / and euer obedyent vnto y^e werkynge of all good werkes with|out rebellyon / and yet &s;o / that the body be not &s;o lowe brought / but that he be able to do his duty / without grudge. Thus haue you an ende of y^e thyrde chapitre.</P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para; The fourth chapytre of the rule.</HEAD>
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<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">This latyn <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">entence is in <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he orygynall <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">f &s;aynt Augu+<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">tin wryten (as <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e &s;ayd) fyr&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nto women / <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hus to &s;aye in <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ngly&s;&s;he. Let <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ot the veyles <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">r couerynges <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">f your hed be <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o fyne or thyn <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">hat your cals <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">r coife<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vnder <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ethe may ap|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ere / or be per|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">eyued and let <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ot your here <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n ony part be <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">aked or bare <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o be &s;een / ney|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">her lou&s;e ban|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ynge forth by <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">egligence / nor <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">et tru&s;&s;ed vp <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y ony diligen+<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">.</P></NOTE>_NOn &s;it notabilis habit&abus; ve&s;ter / nec affecte|tis ve&s;tib&abus; placere: &s;ed moribus. That is. Let not your habyte or araye be notable / ne euer haue you plea&s;ure in clothynge / but rather in good maners. In the chapitre nexte be|fore this / our holy fader &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn doth begyn to ordre the di&s;cyples of this rule vnto y^e &s;econde vowe cha&s;tite / whiche he contynueth here in this chapitre. And &s;yth (as I &s;ayd before) vnto the kepynge of cha|&s;tite / thre thynges ben required / that is to &s;ay / mode|rate dyete / moderate clothynge / and religyous beha|uyour. One of the whiche in y^e other chapitre &s;pedde / the other twayne he &abpro;&s;ecuteth &amp; foloweth in this pre+&s;ent chapytre / &amp; fyr&s;t of the clothynge / habyte or aray and that in fewe wordes before reher&s;ed. Let not your habyte. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> The &s;ente~ce (I &s;ay) is &s;horte / but y^e my&s;te|ry is longe. For in this worde notable / is vnder&s;tande colour / fyne&s;&s;e / cour&s;e / lengthe / brede / wyde / &s;yde / na|rowe / large / &s;happe or fa&s;hon. And in this worde plea+&s;ure / is vnder&s;tande y^e maner of y^e werynge &amp; ordry~ge of the habyte. For in the outwarde werynge &amp; &s;hewe of the clothynge or aray / is oft &s;hewed what plea&s;ure the per&s;one hath therin. Of the maner of your habyte
<PB N="xxxiiij" REF="49"> and aray / we haue &s;omwhat &s;hewed you in our fyr&s;t boke of the e&s;&s;encyall vowes. Here our mynde is but to dyuyde the lettre and texte of the rule / and to put you &s;omtyme in remembraunce of notable wordes or &s;entences / and to tran&s;late on forth the grete holy cler+ke &s;aynt Hugh / who &s;peketh.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Let not your habyte be notable. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> For we fynde wryten of our holy fader &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn / y^t his aray in all partes / was neyther to precyous or to gay / nor yet to abiecte / ne to vile / but in a meane and moderate maner / as becometh his degre &amp; perfeccyon. And al&s;o he &s;ayd of hym&s;elfe. I confe&s;&s;e (&s;ayth he) and grau~t y^t I am aba&s;&s;hed &amp; a&s;hamed of a precyous ve&s;ture &amp; no|table aray. For it becometh not this &abpro;fe&s;&s;yon / it beco|meth not this vocacyon and callynge / it becometh not this body / the&s;e membres / it becometh not this age / the&s;e hore heres. For our &s;auyour &s;ayth in y^e go&s;pell. Se / &s;uche &abper;&s;ones as ben cladde with delycate &amp; plea|&s;aunt clothynge / done dwell in kynges hou&s;es.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. xj</NOTE> The courtyours haue plea&s;ure in &s;oft plea&s;au~t &amp; precyous garmentes. And the di&s;cyples of Chry&s;t ben well con+tent &amp; plea&s;ed w^t cour&s;e / harde / &amp; vyle aray. The gar|ment of religyous &abper;&s;ones mu&s;t be w^tout newe fa&s;hons without vanite / without &s;u&abper;fluite / w^tout ony thynge that apperteyneth to pryde or vaynglory. For y^e dely|cate ve&s;ture / doth not garny&s;&s;he / ne make hone&s;t y^e re|ligyous &abper;&s;one / but good maners &amp; the clennes of con|&s;cyence. Let vs therfore that ben or &s;hold be &s;pirytuall per&s;ones / garny&s;&s;he &amp; aray our &s;elfe w^t &s;pirituall orna+mentes / with the garmentes of cha&s;tite / humylite / myldnes / obedyence / pacyence / quietude and charite.
<PB REF="50"> The&s;e ben the garmentes wherwith y^e deuoute &s;oule may plea&s;e her make &amp; &s;pou&s;e. For he y^t is the &s;pou&s;e inuy&s;yble / requireth not ne de&s;yreth &s;o moche the out|warde / as the inwarde beaute of his beloued. For the prophete &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al. xliiij</NOTE> Omnis <ABBR>glia</ABBR> ei&abus;: filie regis ab intus. That is. All his glory &amp; plea&s;ure / is y^e inward beaute of y^e ky~ges doughter / his cho&s;en &s;pou&s;e ma~nes &s;oule. Let therfore all our apparayle / all our beaute / &amp; gar|ny&s;&s;he / be good maners / religyous behauyour. For y^e &s;oule is ble&s;&s;ed &amp; happy / vnto whome y^e louy~ge &s;pou&s;e Ie&s;u &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Cant.</ABBR> iiij.</NOTE> Qua~ pulchra es amica mea: et macula non e&s;t in te. How fayre / how goodly arte thou / myne owne dere beloued: for there is no &s;potte ne blemy&s;&s;he in the. Let vs therfore &s;tudy &amp; gyue dylige~ce to plea&s;e our lord / that beholdeth all &amp; is not &s;een. And that we no thynge &s;tudy for the plea&s;ure of araye / but (as is &s;ayd) for good maners &amp; religyous behauyour / that &s;o we may in effecte folowe &amp; fulfyll the cou~&s;eyle of y^e apo&s;tle Paule.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom~. xij.</NOTE> Nolite co~formari huic <ABBR>&s;clo.</ABBR> <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> Be not you lyke / ne folowe y^e maner of this worlde / ne y^e peo|ple therof / but rather be you renewed / or made newe per&s;ones / by the newe &s;pirytuall felynge &amp; vnder&s;tan+dynge of your &s;elfe.<NOTE PLACE="marg">ij. Co. iiij.</NOTE> For all though our outward man the body be dayly corrupted &amp; pery&s;&s;hed / yet notwith+&s;tandynge our inwarde man y^e &s;oule is renewed from daye to daye / &amp; &s;o encreaceth in vertue &amp; perfeccyon.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; The texte.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">xlj. di&s;tin. clericus.</NOTE>Qua~do &abpro;ceditis / &s;imul ambulate: cu~ veneritis quo itis / &s;imul &s;tate: in ince&s;&s;u / habitu / &s;tatu / et in om~ibus motib&abus; ve&s;tris:<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. nihil fiat <ABBR>qd</ABBR> illiciat cu|iu&s;&abquam; libidine~: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR></NOTE> ve&s;tra~ bona~ co~uer&s;atione~ o&s;tendite: et nihil fiat quod cuiu&s;&abquam; offendat a&s;pectu~: &s;ed <ABBR>qd</ABBR> ve&s;tra~ deceat &s;anctitate~. That is. Whan ye go forth / go togy+der
<PB N="xxxv" REF="50">
/ &amp; whan ye come wheder ye go / &s;tande or byde to+gyder: in your pace / in your habyte / in your &s;tandy~ge and in all your mouynges / ge&s;tures and behauyour / &s;hewe euer your good &amp; godly co~uer&s;acyon / &amp; that ye no thynge do / that may offende y^e &s;yght of ony &abper;&s;one / but rather y^t may become your &abper;feccyon / your &s;ancti|te &amp; holynes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expo&s;y.</NOTE> Here &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne entreateth of the thyrde thynge we &s;ayd was nece&s;&s;ary vnto cha&s;tite / that is to &s;ay / religyous behauyour. For as &s;adde be|hauyour moueth vnto &s;adnes / &s;oo lyght behauyour moueth vnto lyghtnes / &amp; al&s;o as &s;ad behauyour doth &s;hewe a &s;ad per&s;one / &s;o doth lyght behauyour &s;hewe a lyght per&s;one. So &s;ayth the wy&s;e man <ABBR>ecclia&s;ticus</ABBR> Amict&abus; corporis / ri&s;us dentiu~ / &amp; ingre&s;&s;us hominis annunciant de eo. That is.<NOTE PLACE="marg">xix. D.</NOTE> The aray of the body / the lyght cou~tenau~ce / &amp; the pace goynge &amp; behauyour of a &abper;&s;one / done &s;hewe what he is. Dyuers other auctory+tees &amp; rea&s;ons apperteyny~ge herevnto / ye &s;hall fynde in your &s;ayd boke of our fyr&s;t monicyon. Now here ho+ly</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The holy congregacyon of perfyte per&s;ones / dothe not onely flory&s;&s;he &amp; haue auctorite by y^e honour of re|ligyon / but al&s;o dothe moche more edyfye by y^e goodly beaute of hone&s;t and religyous behauyour. Wherof &s;cripture &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>eccl.</ABBR> xxiiij</NOTE> Flores mei fruct&abus; honoris &amp; hone&s;ta+tis. My floures ben the fruytes of honour &amp; hone&s;ty. Religyous per&s;ones ben of honour / &amp; &s;o ben they take~ yf they be good &amp; vertuous. And moo&s;t hone&s;t &amp; rely|gyous is it for them / as they dwell togyder / &s;o to go togyder / &s;tande togyder / enclyne togyder.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co. xiiij</NOTE> So y^t (after the apo&s;tle) all thynge be done hone&s;tly / and after due ordre. We may al&s;o vnder&s;tande this knotte / this con|corde
<PB REF="51"> &amp; coniu~ccyon of religyous per&s;ones togyder / &s;pi+rytually. For the couent &amp; congregacyon of good reli|gyous per&s;ones / is called in &s;cripture terryble &amp; drede+full / as the front or vawarde of an ordred felde or ba|tayle.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Cant.</ABBR> vj.</NOTE> whiche gadred and ordred bothe to go / &s;tande or &s;toppe all togyder / is the more &s;tronge to with&s;tande theyr enemyes. So lykewy&s;e the co~gregacyon of ho|ly per&s;ones / beynge all of one behauyour / is the more myghty &amp; &s;tronge to w^t&s;tande the deuyll / y^t no thynge hateth more than vnite &amp; co~corde. But therfore moche is that lettre notable / where is &s;ayd. In all your mo|uynges / &s;hewe &s;o your behauyour / that no thynge be done / that &s;holde offende the &s;yght of ony per&s;one / but that may become your &abper;feccyon. So &s;holde religyous per&s;ones lyue / that iu&s;tly they myght not of ony per|&s;one be reproued. For &s;urely it is very vnco~uenyent / y^t tho&s;e per&s;ones whiche by theyr ordre ben bounden to gyue vnto other &abper;&s;ones example / fourme / &amp; maner of perfeccyon / &s;hold in them&s;elfe lyue inordynately or re|prouably. For vnto religyous &abper;&s;ones dothe moo&s;t &s;pe+cyally appertayn / that our lorde &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Leuit.</ABBR> xx</NOTE> E&s;tote &s;ancti &s;icut et ego &s;anctus &s;um. Be you perfyte &amp; holy as I am holy &amp; perfyte. Veryly we &s;hold be holy &amp; perfyte that haue receyued y^e holy habyte of religyon / the ha|byte of perfeccyon / &amp; that haue bou~de our &s;elfe vnto y^e dayly &s;eruyce of god / &amp; oftentymes to receyue his ho|ly &s;acramentes / &amp; more &s;pecially tho&s;e of vs y^t done al|&s;o mini&s;tre &amp; co~&s;ecrate his ble&s;&s;ed body. Vnto whome &s;aynt Paule &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Co. iiij.</NOTE> Sic nos exi&s;timet ho. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> Let eue+ry per&s;one (&s;ayth he) &s;uppo&s;e vs &s;o / &amp; after &s;uche ma|ner as we &s;eme to be / y^t is to &s;aye / miny&s;tres of Chry&s;t and the di&s;pen&s;ers or dyuiders vnto other / of the holy
<PB N="xxxvj" REF="51"> my&s;teryes of our lorde. Se / note here that the apo&s;tle doth not co~mau~de vs onely to be religyous / but al&s;o &s;o to &s;eme religyous / that euery &abper;&s;one may &s;o &s;uppo&s;e &amp; tru&s;t. For it &s;uffy&s;eth not vnto vs to haue good lyfe &amp; perfeccyon / but al&s;o that we haue good name &amp; fame. For good lyfe is vnto vs nece&s;&s;ary for our &s;elfe / &amp; good name &amp; fame for other per&s;ones / wherfore the &s;ame apo&s;tle &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Tim~. ii</NOTE> It behoueth vs to haue good te&s;tymo|ny &amp; wytnes of tho&s;e thynges y^t ben without vs / that is to &s;aye / of our behauyour &amp; of the people. So ther|fore mu&s;t we lyue / that our lyfe accorde w^t our name / that is to &s;aye / religyous / and that in our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erkes we holde &amp; kepe our &abpro;fe&s;&s;yon. So that yf our ordre be per+fyte / we be al&s;o perfyte / and yf we haue a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">od name we proue the &s;ame by y^e wytnes of good werkes. For than done we lyue religyou&s;ly / whan by reguler di&s;ci+plyne &amp; religyous behauyour we re&s;trayne all vnlaw+full mocyons / &amp; whan all our membres &amp; outwarde wyttes ben &s;tudyou&s;ly garded / kepte &amp; re&s;trayned fro~ all occa&s;yons of lyghtnes or dy&s;&s;olucyon. So that our &s;yght be &s;ymple / meke &amp; lowly / and neuer fyxed vpon ony thynge vnlawfully de&s;yred / &amp; our eres &amp; herynge be euer pure / clene &amp; di&s;crete / clo&s;ed &amp; &s;topped from all maner of vanite &amp; voyde co~munycacyon. Our &s;peche be euer &s;auced w^t &s;alte / that is to &s;aye / adourned &amp; gar+ny&s;&s;hed w^t wy&s;dom / that we &s;peke not moche / ne ony thynge vayne / nor &s;pecyally noyous or &s;ynfull / but y^e lytell that we &s;peke / be alway good &amp; &abpro;fytable. That al&s;o in our herte be clennes / our countenaunce be euer ba&s;&s;hefull &amp; maydenly. In our pace &amp; goynge be gra|uite. In our &s;tacyons &amp; inclynacyons reuerence / &amp; in all our mocyons or mouynges / maturite &amp; warenes / 
<PB REF="52"> that we neuer forgete our &s;elfe. Our habyte &amp; aray be euer religyous / &s;o that &abper;feccyon &amp; holynes may euer therin clerely be &s;een / &amp; good hone&s;ty playnly appere. And very true mekenes be kept &amp; pre&s;erued. And that (as is &s;ayd) in all our ge&s;tures &amp; mocyons no thynge be done that &s;holde offende the &s;yght of ony &abper;&s;one / but that may become our perfeccyon. There foloweth in the lettre. Oculi ve&s;tri et &s;i iaciuntur in aliqua~ femi|naru~: in nulla figantur: ne&abque; enim qua~do &abpro;ceditis: fe|minas videre &abpro;hibemini: &s;ed appetere vel ab ip&s;is ap+peti velle: crimino&s;um e&s;t. That is. And all though ye ca&s;t your eye or loke vpon ony frayle or lyght per&s;one / yet fyxe not your &s;yght / ne loke &s;tedfa&s;tly vpon ony &s;u+che. For whan ye go forth / it is not &abpro;hybyte ne forbo|den you to &s;e or loke vpon frayle per&s;ones / but to haue appetyte carnally to haue or my&s;v&s;e them / or yet to be had or my&s;v&s;ed of them / is euer &s;ynfull. This rule was fyr&s;t wryten vnto women / &amp; after by longe v&s;e &s;uppo&s;ed &amp; applyed vnto y^e male &s;exe / vnto men / and therfore in the latyn lettre is &s;ayd. Heminas videre. To &s;e or loke vpon women.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide Au|gu&s;tin~. in <ABBR>epla.</ABBR> cix.</NOTE> But bycau&s;e y^t now bothe men &amp; women haue receyued &amp; done profe&s;&s;e the &s;ame rule / we in y^t place to be (as we &s;ayd) indifferent vnto bothe y^e &s;exes / done tra~&s;late that terme women frayle per&s;ones / &amp; that we do bycau&s;e that in holy &s;cripture by that terme woman / is vnder&s;tande &amp; &s;ygnyfyed y^e fraylty rather of ony lyght &abper;&s;one / than y^e &s;exe or kynde of y^e woman. Here in this lettre &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn more playnly toucheth &s;uche behauyour as is moo&s;t peryl+lous vnto cha&s;tite / &amp; moo&s;t comynly doth noy y^e &s;ame / that is to &s;aye / a wanton eye / a lyght cou~tenau~ce / the redy me&s;&s;engers of &s;ynne / &amp; &s;ore a&s;&s;aylers of cha&s;tite.
<PB N="xxxvij" REF="52"> For by the &s;yght / as wynde by y^e wyndowe / doth the mocyon &amp; temptacyon of carnalite &amp; lightnes entre in to the mynde &amp; herte / &amp; therfore doth &s;aynt Augy&s;tyn declare the ieoperdy of the &s;yght &s;pecyally to be fyxed by affeccyon.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota. Texte.</NOTE> And here ye &s;hal note &amp; well perceyue by the&s;e wordes of the texte. Whan ye go forth / that all the di&s;cyples of this rule &s;holde be as enclo&s;ed / y^e men from the &s;yght of all women / &amp; the women from the &s;yght of all men / but whan they go forth. So y^t wo|men &s;holde neuer come in to the mona&s;tery of men / ne euer men come within the mona&s;tery of the women. Nece&s;&s;ite is euer excepted / as labourers that done re|pare y^e hou&s;ynge / or do &s;uche other nece&s;&s;ary labours / and therfore may men or women entre your clau&s;ure. But that women &s;hold come amonge ony relygyous men of this rule / I can not &s;e / nor men amonge wo|men / but (as is &s;ayd) for very and vnfeyned nece&s;&s;ite rea&s;on wyll ye &s;o grau~t of the &s;elfe lettre &amp; wordes of the rule.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> Whan ye go forth (&s;ayth the rule) ye be not prohybyte ne forboden to loke. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> Ergo whan ye go not forth / ye ben forboden to &s;e / or to be &s;een. For yf ye myght lawfully company w^t &s;uche per&s;ones at home / why &s;holde &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn &s;aye / whan ye go forth. It were &s;u&abper;fluous &amp; more vayne / than &s;hold become &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn to &s;peke. Now I &s;e what &s;ome per|&s;ones wyll &s;aye here vnto. Oh &s;yr ye be now to harde to &s;u&abper;&s;ticyous &amp; to precy&s;e / that were harde / that we myght neuer go forth w^tout very nede. For than doth our religyous per&s;ones erre all &amp; do amy&s;&s;e. For often tymes they go forth for recreacyon and di&s;porte. Nay frende not all / ne ony that done kepe y^e rule. For after in the &s;yxth chapytre the lettre expre&s;&s;eth nece&s;&s;ite / or
<PB REF="53"> nede / &s;ayenge. Ye &s;hall not go vnto the bayne / ne ony where els where nede &s;hall be. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> So y^t the rule wyll (without doubte) ye go forth onely for nede / &amp; I &s;aye very and vnfeyned nede. For nede fayned / is no nede. Well &s;yr &s;aye you / I praye you than / &s;yth nede alone mu&s;t co~pell vs to go forth / &s;hewe vs what nede y^t is? The lettre of y^e rule dothe &s;hewe the nede w^t grete and large lyberty / in the place before &s;ayd / where is &s;ayd. The di&s;cyples of this rule &s;hall not go vnto the bayne nor ony where els where nede requireth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Capi. vj.</NOTE> There may ye perceyue that bodyly nede is at the le&s;t required / &amp; that I &s;aye with lyberty. Syth there is not named extreme or &s;trayte nede / as in our rule here at Syon / &amp; in dyuer&s;e other religyons in englonde. Than yf bo|dyly nede do excu&s;e you to go forth / moche more dothe gho&s;tly nede of the &s;oule di&s;charge your con&s;cyence / &amp; the &s;ame nede mu&s;t ye vnder&s;tande of all &s;uche per&s;o|nes as &s;hold come amonge you / or w^tin your clau&s;ure. For els (as we &s;ayd) y^t precepte for your goynge forth &s;holde be voyde / yf ye myght receyue them in to your clau&s;ure. Now pardon me to &s;aye trouth as the very lettre &s;owneth / &amp; neuer excu&s;e you by &s;uche &abper;&s;ones of your profe&s;&s;yon as done contrary. For they do not ob|&s;erue the rule / nor theyr tran&s;gre&s;&s;yon and &s;ynne &s;hall euer defende you from payne. For ye promy&s;e the rule by your profe&s;&s;yon / &amp; that &s;urely mu&s;t ye paye / or els bere y^e payne vntollerable &amp; vnberable. Now mea cul+pa / that I haue &s;o longe ha~ged vpon this poynt / &amp; all is bycau&s;e I knowe &s;o many y^t herein done amy&s;&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>Oculi ve&s;tri. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> All though your eye or &s;yght be ca&s;t vpon ony frayle or lyght per&s;one / yet let it not be fixed
<PB N="xxxviij" REF="53"> or &s;tedfa&s;tly &s;et vpon ony &s;uche per&s;ones. For our lord &s;ayth in the go&s;pell.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. i</NOTE> Who &s;o loketh vpon ony frayle or lyght per&s;one / for the entent &amp; of concupy&s;cence &amp; vn|clene de&s;yre / euen than forthwith hath he by y^t &s;yght &amp; wyl done lechery / &amp; offended w^t that per&s;one in hert. Syth than by the vnlawfull ca&s;t &amp; &s;yght of eye / con|cupy&s;cence ary&s;eth &amp; is moued / wherby y^e integrite &amp; clennes of mynde is violate &amp; defouled. It is therfore nece&s;&s;ary that religyous &abper;&s;ones &s;acred vnto our lorde depre&s;&s;e &amp; kepe well theyr &s;yght / le&s;t by co~cupi&s;cence &amp; vnclennes of mynde they offende his grace.<NOTE PLACE="marg">ij. Re. xj.</NOTE> For holy Dauid the prophete / bycau&s;e he ca&s;t &amp; fixed his &s;yght vpon a frayle per&s;one / was by vnlawfull appetyte &amp; de&s;yre vaynqui&s;&s;hed &amp; ouercome / &amp; &s;o co~mytted bothe aduoutry &amp; homicyde / that is to &s;aye man&s;laughter. Syth than &s;uche a man &s;o holy &amp; perfyte dyd fall by the negligence of his &s;yght / what &s;hold we wretches than / ferre from his callynge / ony thynge pre&s;ume to tru&s;t our &s;elfe? We &s;holde rather moche drede / &amp; haue our &s;elfe in ryght grete awayte / how / wherevpon / &amp; whan we loke / &amp; ofte reme~bre y^e &s;ayenge of holy Iob. I haue (&s;ayth he) appoynted &amp; made couenau~t with myn eyes &amp; &s;yght / not onely that I wyll not loke / but al&s;o that I wyll not thynke vpon ony virgyn / moche more than ony other woman.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iob. xxx</NOTE> Bycau&s;e the holy Iob perceyued / that by the outwarde &s;yght / the inwarde herte and mynde myght be corrupted: therfore he ap|poynted &amp; couenau~ted w^t his &s;yght / that he &s;holde not vnwarely &s;e / that after he myght vnlawfully de&s;yre. For doubtles vyce &s;hall neuer be well &amp; perfytly vayn+quy&s;&s;hed / vnto the tyme y^e cau&s;e &amp; occa&s;yon therof be dylygently auoyded &amp; e&s;chewed. And therfore whan
<PB REF="54"> Lot fledde out of Sodom / he had in co~mau~dement he &s;holde not loke backe / ne yet tary nor byde in ony place aboute that co&s;te or compa&s;&s;e / but that he &s;hold make hym&s;elfe &s;afe in the mou~t.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen~. xix.</NOTE> So lykewy&s;e who &s;o wyll flee &amp; auoyde the occa&s;yon &amp; ieoperdy of vyce &amp; &s;ynne / mu&s;t departe &amp; flee from y^e &s;yght &amp; company therof / &amp; gete hym vnto the mou~t / clymbe y^e heyght of vertue &amp; perfeccyon / that the ferther in body / mynde &amp; vertue he is from y^e occa&s;yon of vyces / the more at lyberty / &amp; the more in &s;urety he may be from y^e dau~ger of them. And that the &s;yght is oftentymes cau&s;e &amp; occa&s;yon of carnall co~cupi&s;cence / is &s;hewed in y^e texte y^t foloweth. Nec &s;olo tacito affectu:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">xxii. q. v. iec &s;olo.</NOTE> &absed; a&s;pectu &amp; affectu quo&abque;: ap|petitur et appetit concupi&s;centia feminaru~. That is. Nor yet the concupy&s;cence &amp; carnall mocyon of frayle per&s;ones / hath appetyte to haue and to be had / by the preuy affect &amp; inward de&s;yre of mynde alone / but al&s;o bothe by the a&s;pecte &amp; outwarde lokes / &amp; by y^t affecte al&s;o. Somwhat of the&s;e lokes &amp; other countenau~ces we haue &s;hewed vnto you in your other &s;ayd boke of the thre princypall vowes. And how ieoperdous they ben / appereth in y^e lyues &amp; collacyons of y^e holy faders in many places. It is therfore ynough for vs to &s;hewe you for y^e lettre / how &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn entreatynge of cha&s;tite / dothe here &s;hewe the ieoperdyes &amp; perylles y^t belonge therunto. And as before he hath &s;hewed how cha&s;tite is had &amp; pre&s;erued / &s;o he now &s;heweth how cha&s;tite may be lo&s;t and de&s;troyed. And that fyr&s;t by the &s;yght / where he &s;ayth. Nor yet. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR></P>
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<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Nor yet the concupy&s;cence. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> as though he &s;ayd: concupy&s;cence groweth not onely w^tin forth by preuy
<PB N="xxxix" REF="54"> plea&s;ure / but al&s;o it is oft engendred &amp; multyplyed by outward &s;yght &amp; beholdy~ge.<NOTE PLACE="marg">ij. Re. xj.</NOTE> For yf &s;aynt Dauid had not fa&s;tened his &s;yght vpon the woman / he had not falled in to y^t carnall temptacyon.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hiere. ix.</NOTE> Of y^t whiche &s;yght the &abpro;phete &s;ayth. Deth hath a&s;cended in to our wyn|dowes / &amp; &s;o hath entred in to our hou&s;es. Deth is the vnclene concupy&s;cence. And our hous is our inwarde mynde / the wyndowes wherof ben our outward &s;en+&s;es &amp; wyttes / herynge / &s;eynge / &s;mellynge / ta&s;tyng / &amp; touchynge. So than dethe dothe entre by our wyn|dowes in to our hou&s;es / whan by our outward wyt|tes y^e vyce of concupy&s;cence entreth in to our inwarde myndes. Therfore y^t our wyttes be not &s;o corrupted &amp; deth &s;o entre / it is nece&s;&s;ary that with grete diligence the &s;elfe hous / that is the mynde / kepe well the wyn|dowes / that the more &s;urely we &s;hette out y^e &s;ynne of concupi&s;cence / the more lyghtly we may repre&s;&s;e that vayne appetyte. For moche is to be noted &amp; fered / that forthwith in the lettre foloweth. Nec dicatis vos ha+bere animos pudicos: &s;i habeatis oculos impudicos: quia impudicus oculus / impudici cordis e&s;t nuncius. That is. And ye can not &s;aye ye haue cha&s;tite &amp; &s;adde myndes / yf ye haue vncha&s;te &amp; lyght eyes. For the vn+cha&s;te &amp; lyght eye / is the me&s;&s;enger of y^e vncha&s;te &amp; vn+clene hert. Se how &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn here per&s;uadeth the religyous per&s;ones vnto y^e contynency &amp; kepynge of theyr &s;ight. For he not onely &s;heweth the weyght &amp; peryll of this vyce as vnto the corrupcyon of y^e &s;oule &amp; mynde / but al&s;o how it blotteth / fadeth &amp; hurteth the name or fame of y^e &abper;&s;ones / in &s;o moche y^e &s;yght gyueth occa&s;yon vnto all other to iudge theyr inward my~des and co~&s;entes / after y^e maner of theyr outwarde lokes.
<PB REF="55"> So &s;ayth</P>
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<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The outwarde membres done often &s;hewe what lyeth pryuely in y^e hert. And many tymes y^e habyte &amp; behauyour of the mynde / is knowen by the habyte &amp; behauyour of y^e body. And y^e &s;ynne is le&s;&s;e whyle it is preuy / than whan it is openly knowen. For ye mu&s;t vnder&s;tande y^t vnclennes is &s;omtyme &s;pirytuall / &s;om|tyme carnall. Spirytuall vnclennes is by y^e inwarde werky~ge of vnclene thoughtes. And carnall / whan it &abpro;cedeth &amp; cometh vnto &s;ome maner acte &amp; dede / as in herynge / &s;eynge / touchynge / &amp; &s;peky~ge w^t &s;uche other incitame~tes &amp; noury&s;&s;hers of vnclene lu&s;tes &amp; vnlaw+full plea&s;ures / wherby the &s;oule is departed fro~ god / lechery exercy&s;ed in the wyttes / &amp; cha&s;tite chaced / dry+uen out &amp; auoyded from y^e maners. So foloweth in y^e lettre. Et cu~ &s;e inuice~ (etia~ &s;ibimet tace~te lingua) co~|&s;pectu mutuo corda nu~ciant impudica / &amp; <ABBR>&s;cdm</ABBR> concu|pi&s;centia~ carnis / alterutro delectantur ardore (etia~ in|tactis ab i~mu~da violatione corporibus) fugit ca&s;titas ip&s;a de morib&abus;. That is. And whan &s;o euer &s;uche per|&s;ones / all though without &s;peche (onely lokynge eche vpon other) done &s;hewe amonge them&s;elfe theyr car|nall myndes &amp; vncha&s;te hertes / &amp; al&s;o after the concu|pi&s;cence &amp; de&s;yre of the fle&s;&s;he done eche take plea&s;ure in the carnall fauour &amp; affeccyon of other / all though there be none vnclene touchynge of the body / yet doth that vertue of cha&s;tite flee &amp; auoyde fro~ theyr maners Here &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn dothe &s;hewe of y^e &s;yght / whiche is the le&s;t offence of lechery (except thought) how gre+uous notwith&s;tandynge it may be / &s;pecyally vnto re|lygyous per&s;ones. For ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;uche thynges may be lawfull / or (at the lee&s;t) bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nyall &s;ynne in &s;eculer &amp;
<PB N="xl" REF="55"> worldly per&s;ones / whiche in religyous per&s;ones ben neuer without &s;ome &s;ynne / and oftentymes deedly &amp; dampnable. For yf y^e lyght ca&s;t of an eye be &s;o greuous as here is &s;hewed in the lettre / how greuous &s;uppo&s;e you ben the other vncha&s;te behauyours? as ky&s;&s;ynge and touchynge? moche doubtles / &amp; very moche more. For I can not &s;e that a religyous man may ky&s;&s;e ony woman / ne a religyous woman ky&s;&s;e ony man / w^tout offence &amp; &s;ynne / and yf it be for carnall plea&s;ure / w^tout deedly &s;ynne. Nor yet (after may&s;ter Ger&s;on) touche y^e hand or ony other naked place. For &s;yth y^e olde faders wolde not &s;e theyr owne naturall parentes / ne yet w^t good wyll be &s;een of them. How may now ony rely|gyous per&s;one v&s;e ony &s;uche behauyour w^tout &s;ome &s;ynner &s;pecyally &s;yth we in this tyme / ben ferre more &s;traytly bounde than they were than / it may not be / it can not be. Here now what your expo&s;ytour &s;ayth therto holy</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Cha&s;tite (doubtles) doth flee and auoyde from the maners of &s;uche per&s;ones / whan by y^e lokes &amp; behol|dy~ge of eche other / voluptuous &amp; vnclene plea&s;ure be|gynneth more and more to kendle &amp; enflambe. And all though there be none vnclene bodyly touchyng / yet is the &s;elfe vnclennes co~mytted &amp; done by that &s;yght / by that affeccyon / by that delectacyon &amp; cogitacyon. And by the&s;e degrees that done folowe / the &s;ynne doth en|creace &amp; multyply. The &s;yght and outwarde wyttes done moue the cogitacyon &amp; thought. And the cogita|cyon engendreth delectacyon. The delectacyon / co~&s;ent The co~&s;ent / the acte. The acte / cu&s;tom. And y^e cu&s;tom engendreth nece&s;&s;ite. For &s;uche per&s;ones as ben accu|&s;tomed and v&s;ed vnto a &s;ynne / wyll &s;aye they can not
<PB REF="56"> leue it / &amp; in very dede no more they lightly may. They mu&s;t nede (they &s;aye) haue it / they can not be w^tout it. It is vnto them therfore by cu&s;tom as nece&s;&s;ite. The apo&s;tle Paule &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom~. vij.</NOTE> The lawe &amp; nece&s;&s;ite of &s;ynne is in the membres / whiche lawe is that cu&s;tom that in ofte doynge of &s;ynne we haue co~ceyued &amp; brought our &s;elfe vnto. So y^t whan we wolde / we can not departe therfro~ bycau&s;e we ben reteyned &amp; holden of cu&s;tome in the bonde &amp; pry&s;on of nece&s;&s;ite. Therfore it is wy&s;|dome to re&s;trayne at the begynnynge / whan y^e &s;ynne dothe fyr&s;t appere. For yf it contynue &amp; byde / it wyll anone growe vnto the greter offence. The prophete of &s;uche mocyons. Prolongaueru~t iniq^itate~ mea~. They haue (&s;ayth he) prolonged &amp; contynued myn iniquite. So that pa&s;&s;ynge my power / our lorde mu&s;t breke &amp; de&s;troye them. The lettre foloweth. Nec putare de|bet qui in femina figit oculu~ / &amp; illius in &s;e diligit fixu~: ab alijs &s;e non videri / cu~ hoc fecerit / videtur oi~no: et a quib&abus; &s;e videri no~ arbitratur. That is. And let &s;uche &abper;&s;ones as &s;o done fa&s;ten theyr &s;yght vpon frayle &abper;&s;o|nes / &amp; that done loue al&s;o to haue agayne theyr &s;yght fixed vpon them. That is to meane / &s;uche &abper;&s;ones as haue plea&s;ure to loke wantonly vpon lyght &abper;&s;ones / &amp; &s;o to be loked vpon. Let not them (I &s;aye) thynke ne &s;uppo&s;e they be not &s;een &amp; perceyued whan they &s;o do For in dede they ben &s;een &amp; clerely perceyued. And y^t of &s;uche per&s;ones as they wene not / ne wold trowe fore or &s;uppo&s;e. Here &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn dothe an&s;were vnto the excu&s;e of many &s;uche per&s;ones as ben determyned to folowe fraylte / &amp; yet wolde be lothe to be knowen &amp; to be hyndred or hurt in theyr name or fame therby / &amp; therfore they v&s;e theyr plea&s;ure pryuely / and as they
<PB N="xlj" REF="56"> thynke in moo&s;t &s;ecrete maner. But in trouth / whan they byleue no &abper;&s;one dothe perceyue theyr behauyour all the worlde (as they &s;aye) wondreth vpon them. They ben vtterly a&s;pyed / whan they thynke they be in moo&s;t &s;urety. So &s;ayth &s;aynt Hugh.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; We &s;e this oftentymes happe of them that wolde hyde and kepe &s;ecrete theyr offences / that whan they &s;uppo&s;e &amp; thynke they do all thynges warely &amp; &s;ecret|ly: yet or they ben ware / they &s;hewe playnly them&s;elfe by theyr behauyour / &amp; &s;o the coun&s;eyle they byleue is &s;ecrete vnto them&s;elfe / is vnto other &abper;&s;ones more than openly knowen. The lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a.l. ecce la+teat. a.l. de illo &s;u&abper;no in|&s;pectore.</NOTE> Sed &amp; &s;i lateat &amp; a nemi|ne hominu~ videatur: quid faciet de illo de&s;u&abper; in&s;pecta|tore: quc~ latere nihil pote&s;t? An ideo putandus e&s;t non videre: quia tanto videt pacientius / qua~to &s;apie~tius? That is. But though in ca&s;e it were &s;ecrete / &amp; no per|&s;one &s;awe them / yet what wolde they do or thynke of hym y^t loketh from aboue / almyghty god / fro~ whome no thynge may be hyd? wolde they &s;uppo&s;e or thynke he &s;awe them not / bycau&s;e he is &s;o pacyent &amp; &s;uffreth them in that euyll / whiche he moo&s;t &s;urely &s;eeth / and wherof he hath moo&s;t certayn knowlege? as though he &s;ayd / that were a grete foly &s;o to thynke of god. By+cau&s;e that a &abper;&s;one may leue or for&s;ake &s;ynne without meryte / whan he &s;o doth rather for &s;hame of y^e worlde than for the louynge drede of god. Saynt Augu&s;tyne dothe here &s;hewe y^t the worldly drede doth no thynge excu&s;e y^e &s;ynne / bycau&s;e euery &abper;&s;one mu&s;t gyue accou~t vnto the knowlege of god / y^t can not be deceyued. So &s;ayth holy</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; In all thynges therfore that we eyther do / &s;aye or
<PB REF="57"> thynke / we mu&s;t euer drede y^e &s;yght &amp; knowlege of the moo&s;t hygh iudge our lorde god. For all though our &s;ynnes &amp; defautes done not alway apere in y^e &s;yght of man / in y^e &s;yght of god they ben open &amp; vtterly &s;een &amp; perceyued. And y^t moche &s;holde re&s;trayne vs fro~ &s;ynne bycau&s;e that in his iudgement no thynge can be vn|puny&s;&s;hed or vnrewarded. We &s;hold therfore agayn&s;t the &s;horte plea&s;ure of &s;ynne cou~tre &amp; wey y^e perpetuall payne &amp; endles &s;orowe of hell. For (doubtles) he is a very wretched fole / that for &s;o &s;horte / &s;o fylthy &amp; &s;o ab|homynable a lu&s;t / wolde lo&s;e &s;o grete Ioye / as is in heuen / &amp; take wylfully &s;o horryble paynes &amp; turmen|tes as ben in hell. The texte. Illi ergo vir &s;anct&abus; / ti|meat di&s;plicere: ne velit femine male placere. Illu~ co|gitet oi~a videre / ne velit femina~ male videre. That is. Let therfore the good relygyous per&s;one euer drede &amp; fere to dy&s;plea&s;e hym / y^t by his drede he haue no wyll ne de&s;yre vnlawfully to plea&s;e the frayle or lyght per|&s;one / let hym thynke &amp; remembre y^t god doth &s;e &amp; per|ceyue all thynges / y^t he therby haue no wyll to &s;e vn|lawfully &amp; to beholde the frayle &amp; lyght per&s;one. Here &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn doth &s;hewe why &s;ynne &s;hold be lefte / that is to &s;aye / for the drede euer of the offence of god / and not of man. And al&s;o &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn knewe well the di&s;po&s;icyons of frayle per&s;ones / whiche wyll ma+ny tymes my&s;v&s;e them&s;elfe for the plea&s;ure onely of y^e other per&s;one / more than for theyr owne plea&s;ure: ye &amp; that &s;omtyme wha~ it is vnto them&s;elfe bothe di&s;plea+&s;ure and payne. And whan al&s;o theyr con&s;cyence very moche grudgeth withall. Yet (I &s;aye) notw^t&s;tandy~ge they wyll / vaynquy&s;&s;hed by &s;en&s;ualite / folowe y^e plea+&s;ure of the frayle per&s;one / &amp; &s;o for that tyme &amp; place of
<PB N="xlij" REF="57"> the occa&s;yon &amp; oportunite / they wyll ouerpa&s;&s;e &amp; di&s;&s;y+mule y^e drede of god / whiche drede he hath put openly before all per&s;ones / as a co~mau~dement / &s;ayenge that foloweth in the lettre. Illius na~&abque; et in hac cau&s;a / co~+mendat&abus; e&s;t timor: vbi &s;criptum e&s;t. Abhominatio e&s;t dn~o / defigens oculu~. That is. For in this thynge we ben co~maunded by holy &s;cripture to fere &amp; drede god / where is &s;ayd / that god abhorreth that per&s;one that fyxeth or fa&s;teneth y^e &s;yght.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prou. x<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> If god do abhorre a lyght eye / or wanton loke / how moche &s;holde the religyous per&s;ones that haue profe&s;&s;ed theyr loue to god / auoy|de and e&s;chewe that god &s;o hateth. For as &s;ayth</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Of this texte doth playnly appere / that yf the reli|gyous per&s;ones done fyxe or fa&s;ten theyr &s;yght vpon ony frayle / lyght / or vnclene per&s;one / they ben abho|mynable vnto almyghty god / whome they &s;holde / &amp; ben bou~den to plea&s;e / &amp; &s;o where they &s;hold receyue of god eterne &amp; euerla&s;tynge glory / they &s;hall receyue in|tolerable payne. Wherfore take this for a conclu&s;yon nece&s;&s;ary / that yf the loue of god do not cau&s;e vs to de|parte from &s;ynne / &amp; to for&s;ake our euyll lyfe: or at the le&s;t / yf y^e drede of god do not re&s;trayne vs from vyce / &amp; yf al&s;o we haue no plea&s;ure ne de&s;yre of the Ioyes of heuen / ne yet ony drede of y^e paynes of hell / god (w^tout doubte) wyll for&s;ake vs / &amp; &s;o &s;hall we be lo&s;t for euer. For whan a per&s;one dredeth to dy&s;plea&s;e god his ma|ker / than begynneth he to flee and auoyde &s;ynne. Syr &s;aye you / how &s;hall we drede god? Truly who &s;o wyl drede god / he mu&s;t thynke &amp; veryly byleue y^t god &s;eeth and beholdeth all thynges. And whan the con&s;cyence is moued vnto euyll / than mu&s;t he thynke god &s;eeth
<PB REF="58"> this / &amp; what euyll &s;o euer is in me / god knoweth it. And &s;o what &s;o euer y^e good religyous per&s;one enten|deth to do / &s;aye / or thynke / let hym euer take hede vn|to the eye &amp; beholdynge of our lorde / and euer drede to di&s;plea&s;e his goodnes. This is the waye of iu&s;tyce / this is the begynneth of all &s;apyence and wy&s;dome. Initiu~ &s;apientie (&s;ayth the p&s;almi&s;t) timor domini.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. cx.</NOTE> The begynnynge of wy&s;dome (&s;ayth he) is the drede of god. The lettre. Qua~do ergo &s;imul e&s;tis in eccle&s;ia vel vbicu~&abque; vbi femine &s;unt: inuicem ve&s;tra~ pudicitia~ cu&s;todite. That is. Whan &s;o euer therfore ye ben togy+der in y^e churche / or ony where els / where &s;uche frayle and lyght per&s;ones ben pre&s;ent / take you good hede &amp; awayte eche vnto other / &amp; &s;o amonge your &s;elfe be you kepers of your owne cha&s;tite &amp; clennes. Whan &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn had &s;hewed the peryll &amp; ieoperdy of y^e light loke and wanton &s;yght as a grete enemy of cha&s;tite / here doth he for remedy there agayn&s;t enioyne &amp; com+mau~de what the di&s;cyples of this rule &s;holde do ther|vnto / that is to &s;aye / where euery &abper;&s;one of them&s;elfe is frayle / &amp; &s;o more redy vnto the wor&s;e than vnto the better / &amp; therby done oftentymes forgete them&s;elfe / he wolde theyr felowes &s;hold take hede vnto them / &amp; (whan nede is) put them in reme~brau~ce of them&s;elfe For the whiche &s;cripture &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Eccls.</ABBR> iiij</NOTE> Ve &s;oli. Woo &amp; ieo|perdy is vnto the per&s;one that is alone. For yf he fall he hath no helpe to ry&s;e / therfore he co~mau~ded before they &s;hold not go forth alone. Moche (ye may &s;e) doth &s;ay~t Augu&s;tyn &s;et by this vertue of cha&s;tite / &amp; &s;o doth</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh. For he &s;ayth</HEAD>
<P>&para; Grete is y^e vertue of cha&s;tite &amp; clennes / &amp; moche is it co~mended &amp; pray&s;ed in many &s;criptures. For it is a
<PB N="xliij" REF="58"> vertue &s;pirytuall &amp; heuenly. For it draweth &amp; lyfteth vp man from the erth vnto heuen / maketh hym com|panyon &amp; felawe vnto au~gels / &amp; ioyneth hy~ vnto god / and &s;o of an erthly per&s;one / it maketh an heuenly / &amp; of a carnall per&s;one / a &s;pirituall. So this vertue of cha|&s;tite doth in maner tran&s;cende &amp; ouerpa&s;&s;e the nature of man. For that a per&s;one is cha&s;te / is not &s;o moche y^e vertue &amp; power of man / as the helpe &amp; grace of god. For by this vertue doth our inuy&s;yble &s;pou&s;e our lord Ie&s;u loue vs / &amp; delyte in vs. For he loueth not y^t &s;oule that is not cha&s;te &amp; clene / but rather yf it be vnclene &amp; &s;ynfull / he abhorreth it. Cha&s;tite therfore &amp; clennes is acceptable bothe vnto god &amp; man. And therfore y^e de|uyll enuyeth moche this vertue / &amp; be&s;yly tempteth &amp; a&s;&s;ayleth there agayn&s;t / he euer &abper;&s;uadeth vnclennes / &amp; many doth he deceyue / many doth he corrupte / &amp; he &s;pareth no &abper;&s;one / prelates / pree&s;tes / monkes / freres / nonnes / &amp; all religyous per&s;ones. And &s;ome of them (more harme is) he bryngeth vnder fote &amp; ouerthro|weth them. It is therfore nece&s;&s;ary / &s;pecyally for re|ligyous per&s;ones / that with moo&s;t hygh &s;tudy &amp; dy|lyg~ence / they garde &amp; pre&s;erue eche other. For yf they lo&s;e cha&s;tite / they lo&s;e all / &amp; them&s;elfe al&s;o. For who &s;o lo&s;eth cha&s;tite / lo&s;eth god / lo&s;eth his owne &s;oule / &amp; al|&s;o hym&s;elfe. Religyous per&s;ones done therfore dwell togyder in one co~gregacion / bycau&s;e they &s;hold garde pre&s;erue &amp; kepe well them&s;elfe / correcte &amp; refourme them&s;elfe / teche &amp; enfourme them&s;elfe. So that by y^e helpe of theyr felowes they may do that by them&s;elfe they myght not do. And for bycau&s;e our chefe garde &amp; pre&s;eruacyon is not of our &s;elfe / but of god / there fo|loweth in the lettre. Deus eni~ qui habitat in vobis:
<PB REF="59"> etia~ i&s;to modo cu&s;todiat vos ex vobis. That is. For al|myghty god y^t dwelleth &amp; re&s;teth amonge you / wyll by this meane of your owne demeanour &amp; dylygence pre&s;erue &amp; kepe you. Here &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn doth &s;hewe what &abpro;fyte cometh by this garde &amp; charitable cu&s;to|dy / that one &abper;&s;one hath vnto an other / that is to &s;aye / the garde and helpe of god / whiche of his bounteous goodnes wyll not deny grace vnto ony &abper;&s;ones y^t wyl|lyngly done di&s;po&s;e them&s;elfe thervnto. For as &s;ayth holy</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Our garde and cu&s;tody is not &s;ufficyent for vs / ex|cepte al&s;o we haue his garde &amp; helpe.<NOTE PLACE="marg">&abpre;s. cxxvj.</NOTE> Ni&s;i dn~s cu&s;to+dierit ciuitate~ (&s;ayth the prophete) fru&s;tra vigilat qui cu&s;todit ea~. That is. Except our lorde do kepe &amp; garde the cyte of mannes &s;oule / in vayne doth he awayte y^t taketh garde &amp; cu&s;tody therof. For no &abper;&s;one may kepe cha&s;tite and clennes in hym&s;elfe / ne in ony other / but onely by the helpe of god: but &amp; yf he dwell &amp; byde in vs / we may do by hym y^t we may not do by our &s;elfe. Let vs therfore &s;tudy &amp; gyue diligence &s;o to lyue / that he may dwell in vs / &amp; we in hym / &amp; that by hym we may be cha&s;te and ryghtwy&s;e in all our werkes. The lettre. Et &s;i ha~c (de qua loquor / oculi petulantiam) in aliquo ve&s;tru~ aduerteritis: &s;tatim admonete / ne cepta progrediantur / &s;ed de proximo corriga~tur. Si aute~ e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> po&s;t admonitione~: iteru~ vel alio quocu~&abque; die idip&s;um / eu~ facere videritis: ia~ velut vulneratu~ / &abpro;da~t &s;anandu~ quicu~&abque; hoc potuerint i~uenire. That is. And yf ye per|ceyue or e&s;pye this wantonnes of the &s;yght (wherof I &s;pake) in ony of your felowes / forthwith or &s;hortly mony&s;&s;he &amp; warne them therof / that no ferther incon+uenyentes come ne growe of y^e &s;ame / but that rather
<PB N="xliiij" REF="59"> that inco~uenyency and my&s;behauyour that began to growe / may &s;hortly be corrected &amp; refourmed. But &amp; yf after y^t monycyon forthwith / or yet ony other tyme after / ye &s;e &amp; perceyue y^e &s;ame per&s;one do agayn&s;t the &s;ame / or other lyke defaute: let than who &s;o euer doth &s;o fynde &amp; e&s;pye y^e &s;ame / dy&s;couer / proclayme &amp; &s;hewe forth the my&s;behauyour / &amp; that &s;o y^e per&s;one as wou~|ded &amp; hurte / may be cured &amp; amended. Here &s;aynt Au|gu&s;tyn doth ordeyn ferther remedy agayn&s;t y^e poy&s;on and peryllous pe&s;tilence of this wantonnes / for them that wyll not be warned / ne ordred by coun&s;eyle / that is to &s;aye / correccyon &amp; re&s;traynt. To take them with the tre&s;pace / &amp; &s;o co~playne &amp; &s;hewe y^e mater vnto theyr confu&s;yon &amp; rebuke. Notw^t&s;tandy~ge / how &amp; by what ordre that mater &s;holde be &s;hewed / &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne doth &s;hewe y^e di&s;cyples of this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ule / le&s;t that perauen|ture they wolde (after y^e maner of y^e worlde) tell theyr neyghbours defaute forthwith / w^tout due maner / &amp; y^t were contrary y^e doctryne of y^e go&s;pell / where is &s;ayd. Yf thy felowe do amy&s;&s;e / fyr&s;t mony&s;&s;he hym &s;ecretly bytwene the &amp; hym alone.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. xviij.</NOTE> And yf he take no hede vn|to thy warnynge / &s;hewe y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> mater vnto &s;ome other &s;e|crete &abper;&s;ones &s;ecretly / &amp; yf than he wyll not here them &s;hewe it ferther openly in iudgement vnto his rebuke and reformacyon. So foloweth in the lettre. Prius tamen et alteri vel tercio demon&s;tra~dum e&s;t: vt po&s;&s;it duoru~ vel triu~ ore co~uinci: et co~pete~ti &s;eueritate coher|ceri. That is. Notwith&s;tandynge / fyr&s;t the mater or offence &s;hold (before ony co~playnt be made) be &s;hewed vnto an other per&s;one or twayne / that by y^e mouth &amp; informacyon of twayne or thre y^e &s;ame tre&s;pacer &s;hold be conuycte &amp; proued gylty / &amp; by &s;uche competent cor|reccyon
<PB REF="60"> &amp; rea&s;onable rebuke / &s;holde al&s;o be re&s;trayned from &s;uche iniquite &amp; &s;ynfull offence. Here &s;aynt Au|gu&s;tyn doth correcte hym&s;elfe / bycau&s;e that before he co~mau~ded that who &s;o euer e&s;pyed ony &s;uche offence in theyr felowes after warnynge / &s;holde forthw^t than &s;hewe it forth to be puny&s;&s;hed / but now he correcteth that &s;ayenge / &amp; wyll that (after the ordre of y^e go&s;pell) it be fyr&s;t &s;hewed vnto other per&s;ones that may bere wytnes of the due monicyon / and of the ob&s;tynacy of the tre&s;pacer / that wolde not by coun&s;eyle be refour|med without correccyon. Notwith&s;tandynge &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn doth here after correcte al&s;o this &s;ayenge / as in the place &s;hall appere / where he wyll the &s;oue|rayne haue fyr&s;t knowlege of the defaute. But how / we &s;hall there declare.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; This &s;entence or &s;ayenge of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn doth accorde with y^e wordes of the apo&s;tle / &amp; of the go&s;pell.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gala. vj. Math. cviij.</NOTE> The apo&s;tle &s;ayth. If ony per&s;one be fou~de w^t defaute or tre&s;pace / you that ben &s;pirituall per&s;ones / mu&s;t in|&s;tructe / teche &amp; refourme that &abper;&s;one &amp; euery lyke per|&s;one / in y^e &s;piryte of &s;oftnes &amp; &s;obrenes / &amp; in gentyll ma+ner.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. xviij.</NOTE> And our &s;auyour &s;ayth in the go&s;pell. If thy bro|der do ony offence that appereth vnto thy knowlege / chalenge hym therfore bytwene the &amp; hym alone. And yf he wyll here the &amp; be refourmed / thou ha&s;te wonne &amp; recouered thy broder. But &amp; yf he wyll not here the / ne be reuoked from his euyll / than take w^t the twayne or thre per&s;ones / that by the mouth of twayne or thre euery worde &amp; &s;entence of cou~&s;eyle may &s;tande &amp; haue more &s;trengthe of trouth to be te&s;tyfyed. The defaute or tre&s;pace of ony per&s;one / mu&s;t be &s;erched &amp; corrected with moo&s;t hygh diligence. For who &s;o in this worlde
<PB N="xlv" REF="60"> doth not amende his &s;ynne / &s;hall doubtles in y^e worlde to come be dampned or puny&s;&s;hed therfore. Wherof y^e apo&s;tle &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hebre. x.</NOTE> It is horryble &amp; dredefull for ony &abper;&s;one to fall in the dau~ger of our lorde &amp; lyuynge god. It is better therfore now to amende / than here after to pe|ry&s;&s;he &amp; be vtterly lo&s;t. That per&s;one therfore y^t loueth to be chalenged and corrected for his offence / is very wy&s;e. In the boke of &s;apyence is wryten.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prou. ix.</NOTE> Correcte &amp; chalenge a wy&s;e man / &amp; he wyll loue the. And a fole / whan he is chalenged / wyll be angry &amp; wroth. But note well what the apo&s;tle &s;ayd vnto his dy&s;cyple. Iu&s;ta (&s;ayth he) oportune / importune. That is.<NOTE PLACE="marg">ij. Ti. iiij.</NOTE> Be thou dilige~t &amp; bolde to rebuke &s;ynne / bothe by &s;oftnes &amp; ea&s;y maner / &amp; al&s;o by &s;harpnes &amp; erne&s;t maner. The one he &s;ayd for them that wyll be lyghtly refourmed &amp; gladly wyll here y^e worde of god. The other he &s;ayd for them y^t ben more &s;tyffe &s;tomacked / &amp; done not glad|ly here holy doctryne. So mu&s;t euery per&s;one y^t wyll rebuke &s;ynne / be / or &s;eme &s;omwhat &s;harpe / but euer w^tout angre / &amp; with charite / for &s;o the per&s;one y^t is re|buked / all though for the tyme he be troubled / yet at length &s;hall he be glad therof / &amp; &s;tudy to amende his defaut. The lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte. a.l. magis q^ip+pe innoce~tes non e&s;tis.</NOTE> Nec vos iudicetis e&s;&s;e maliuolos qua~do hoc iudicatis: magis q^ippe nocentes e&s;tis: &s;i fra+tres ve&s;tros / quos iudica~do corrigere pote&s;tis: tace~do perire &abper;mittitis. Si eni~ frater tuus vuln&abus; haberet in corpore / <ABBR>qd</ABBR> velit occultari du~ timet &s;ecari: no~ne crude|liter a te &s;ileretur / et mi&s;ericorditer <ABBR>iudicaret</ABBR>? Qua~to ergo magis debes manife&s;tare:<NOTE PLACE="marg">a.l. ne &abper;nicio, &s;i&abus; putre&s;cat.</NOTE> ne deterius putre&s;cat in corde? That is. And all though ye &s;o co~playne &amp; de|tecte your felowes / ye &s;hall not (for all y^t) thynke your &s;elfe euyll wylly wroth / or malicyous agayn&s;t them
<PB REF="61"> bycau&s;e ye &s;o &s;hewe theyr offence. For of a &s;urety ye be~ more noyous &amp; greter enemyes vnto them (yf ye may in &s;hewy~ge theyr offence correcte &amp; refourme your fe|lowes) whan by your &s;ylence ye &s;uffre them to pe|ry&s;&s;he &amp; be lo&s;t. For yf thy frende had a &s;ore in his bo|dy / whiche for fere of cutty~ge or payne he wold were hydde &amp; kepte preuy: were thou not cruell &amp; vnkynde to kepe that cou~&s;eyle? And contrary / to &s;hewe y^e &s;ame were thou not mercyfull / pyteous and louynge? Yes doubtles. How moche more than &s;holde y^u &s;hewe thy felowes offence &amp; defaute / le&s;t it mattre &s;piritually / &amp; rotte inward in his hert? As though &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn wolde &s;aye / &s;o moche more as the &s;oule is more pre|cyous than y^e body / &s;o moche more a true frende &s;holde rather loue y^e &s;oule than y^e body. This fore&s;ayd lettre &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn put to / bycau&s;e of &s;uche per&s;ones as ben &s;crupulous in con&s;cyence / y^t wold &s;uppo&s;e it were a grete offence for them to &s;hewe out ony per&s;ones de|faute but theyr owne. Vnto the whiche &s;aynt Augu|&s;tyn an&s;wereth / &s;ayenge it is not offence / but a good dede: no malyce / but rather mercy. For &s;o is the ordre (as is &s;ayd) of y^e go&s;pell. whiche &s;ayenge yet dothe he correcte / &amp; techeth a waye of more charite / &amp; ferther &abper;feccyon / &s;pecyally vnto religyous &abper;&s;ones as ye &s;hall here / after</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; If that &abper;&s;one be cruell &amp; vnkynde that wolde kepe preuy the bodyly wou~de of his frende vnto the ieoper+dy of his lyfe: moche more is that per&s;one cruell &amp; vn|charitable y^t wolde kepe &s;ecrete the &s;ynne &amp; &s;pirytuall wou~de of the &s;oule / vnto y^e lo&s;&s;e &amp; de&s;truccyon therof. For he is as gylty of his dampnacyon as he hym&s;elfe bycau&s;e he &s;uffreth hym (by his &s;ylence) to pery&s;&s;he &amp;
<PB N="xlvj" REF="61"> be lo&s;t. And &s;o bothe ben in the peryll of dampnacyon. The one for his doynge / the other for his &s;ylence and lacke of &s;pekynge. Syth than y^e per&s;one is cruell that doth not &s;hewe the &s;ynne / that per&s;one contrary mu&s;t nede be mercyfull &amp; pyteous / that dothe not hyde the &s;ynne. For who can &s;hewe more pyte &amp; mercy vnto ony per&s;one / than to &s;aue his lyfe that <ABBR>&s;hold</ABBR> pery&s;&s;he &amp; be lo&s;t? A grete rewarde doubtles &s;hall he haue y^t &s;o doth of our &s;auyour that &s;ayd.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. v.</NOTE> Beati mi&s;ericordes / <ABBR>qm</ABBR> <ABBR>ipi</ABBR> mi&s;ericordia~ co~&s;equentur. That is. Ble&s;&s;ed be y^e mer|cyfull / for they &s;hall wynne &amp; purcha&s;e mercy. And y^e holy apo&s;tle &s;aynt Iames &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iacob. v.</NOTE> who &s;o euer cau&s;eth ony per&s;ones to be conuerted from theyr errours &amp; to for&s;ake theyr euyll wayes / he &s;aueth his owne &s;oule and he couereth &amp; hydeth from god the multytude of &s;ynnes. How than the &s;ynne of a relygyous per&s;one &s;hold be &s;hewed in moo&s;t charitable maner / foloweth in y^e lettre. Sed ante&abquam; alijs demon&s;tret&abur; / &abper; quos con|uincendus e&s;t: &s;i negauerit / prius &abpre;po&s;ito debet o&s;ten|di: &s;i admonit&abus; ab vno neglexerit corrigi / ne forte po&s;|&s;it &s;ecretius corrept&abus;: no~ innote&s;cere ceteris. That is. But yet before the defaute or offence be &s;hewed vnto ony other &abper;&s;ones / by whome (as recordes) the tre&s;pa+cer (yf he deny it) &s;holde be co~uycted &amp; proued gylty / it &s;hold fyr&s;t be &s;hewed vnto y^e &s;ouerayne or heed / &amp; that yf he were negligent / &amp; wolde not be mony&s;&s;hed &amp; re|fourmed by that one per&s;one y^t fyr&s;t fou~de the defaute: than &s;holde (I &s;aye) his offence be &s;hewed fyr&s;t vnto the &s;ouerayne / yf peraduenture the tre&s;pacer myght &s;o more &s;ecretly be refourmed / &amp; the defaut no ferther to be open / ne knowen vnto ony other per&s;ones. Here may ye &s;e y^t I &s;ayd before / how &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn doth
<PB REF="62"> yet agayne correcte hym&s;elfe / or at the le&s;t more open|ly declare hy~&s;elfe. For where he fyr&s;t &s;ayd / that who &s;o euer dyd perceyue the defaute of his felowe / &s;holde warne hym therof / &amp; yf by that warnynge he dyd not amende / than &s;holde he &s;hewe it forth to be corrected / but y^t &s;ayenge he re&s;trayned vnto the ordre of the go&s;|pell / y^t is / that before the defaute were openly &s;hewed the fynder or perceyuer therof &s;holde call certayn per|&s;ones to e&s;py &amp; fynde the &s;ame defaute / &amp; to bere wyt|nes therof. But yet vnto the more perfeccyon of rely|gyous &abper;&s;ones / he re&s;trayneth agayne y^t &s;ayenge / and wylleth or co~muu~deth / that what &s;o euer &abper;&s;one rely|gyous do fynde ony &s;uche defaute in his felowe / &s;hold after warnynge &s;hewe it fyr&s;t vnto y^e &s;ouerayne / but not openly in iudgement &amp; place of correccyon / but ra|ther in moo&s;t &s;ecrete maner / that the &s;ouerayne <ABBR>&s;hold</ABBR> &s;o refourme y^e defaute in &s;ecretnes. If that wolde not &s;pede / than to be &s;hewed vnto the &s;ayd &s;ouerayne in y^e chapytre in open iudgement / &amp; &s;o to be corrected &amp; pu|ny&s;&s;hed as after is &s;hewed / whiche ye &s;hall here in y^e place. Now for this lettre / many &abper;&s;ones y^t ben lyght to fall and negligent in religyon / wolde laye for theyr owne excu&s;e / that in all theyr defautes &amp; offences this &s;ayd proce&s;&s;e &s;holde be ob&s;erued / and that is not &s;o / for this proce&s;&s;e onely beholdeth grete / greuous &amp; &s;claun+drous defautes / the other may be proclaymed in open chapytre w^tout ony &s;uche proce&s;&s;e / accordyng euer vn|to y^e &s;tatutes / ordynau~ces &amp; v&s;ed cu&s;tomes of y^e place. Now here</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The offence or defaute that is preuy / <ABBR>&s;hold</ABBR> fyr&s;t be &s;hewed vnto the offender / and yf he &s;o be refourmed / there re&s;t / yf not / to be &s;hewed in &s;ecrete maner vnto y^e
<PB N="xlvij" REF="62"> &s;ouerayne / that the &s;ouerayne may warne &amp; cou~&s;eyle the offender / &amp; &s;o (yf he be refourmed) the defaute no ferther to be open. If yet y^e offender wyll not &s;o be re|couered / than &s;holde wayte be layde by moo &abper;&s;ones / &amp; &s;o y^e defaute be openly &abpro;claymed in generall maner / &amp; yf than the offender wolde co~fe&s;&s;e &amp; humble hym&s;elfe to be y^e more fauoured / but yf he wolde deny or excu&s;e hym&s;elfe / than &s;holde the wytnes be brought forth / &amp; the per&s;one more greuou&s;ly puny&s;&s;hed. So foloweth in the lettre. Si aute~ negauerit: tu~c adhibe~di &s;u~t alij:<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. tu~c ne ga~ti adhi be~di&s;t&aber; <ABBR>&amp;c</ABBR></NOTE> etia~ cora~ om~ibus: vt po&s;&s;it no~ ab vno te&s;te argui: &s;ed a duobus vel tribus co~uinci / co~uictus vero: &s;ecu~du~ arbi triu~ prepo&s;iti vel pre&s;biteri (ad cuius di&s;pen&s;ationem &abper;tinet arbitriu~) debet emendatoria~ &s;ubire vindictam.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. &s;u&s;ti|nere vin|dictam.</NOTE> That is. But yf y^e tre&s;pacer wyll deny the offence pro+claymed / than let the other recordes be called forth / &amp; that before all the hole congregacion / that &s;o the &s;ame offender may / not onely of one recorde be accu&s;ed / but al&s;o of twayne or thre be co~uycted &amp; fou~de gylty. And than &s;o &abpro;ued / let hym (for his reformacyon &amp; amend|ment) haue due correccyon &amp; be puny&s;&s;hed / after the iudgement of y^e pre&s;ydent or &s;ouerayne / vnto y^e di&s;pen+&s;acyon &amp; a&s;&s;ignement of whome the &s;ame iudgement doth apperteyne &amp; belonge. Here doth &s;ay~t Augu&s;tyn for the vtterme&s;t remedy of &abper;&s;ones vnreformable / or|deyn correccyon / &amp; that in two maners / the one by pu+ny&s;&s;hement of y^e body / the other by expul&s;yon / as &s;hall folowe.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> Ye may note in this fore&s;ayd lettre / y^t no gre|uous defaute &s;holde be &abpro;claymed in open iudgement without wytnes / thre or twayne at the lee&s;t. For els the accu&s;er may be put vnto the &s;ame puny&s;&s;hement that the per&s;one accu&s;ed <ABBR>&s;hold</ABBR> haue / yf he were fou~de
<PB REF="63"> and proued gylty. In &s;mall offences / is otherwy&s;e as we &s;ayd before. Now here</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The &abper;&s;one y^t is gentylly warned / &amp; wyll not &s;o be re|fourmed / mu&s;t nedely more &s;harply be reproued. For the &s;ore that wyll not w^t &s;ofte &amp; ea&s;y play&s;ters be reba+ted / mu&s;t (by corry&s;es &amp; greter paynes) be cured. So the per&s;one that wyll not &s;ecretly by charitable war|nynge be refourmed / mu&s;t openly of the defaute be re|proued. So that the &s;pirytuall wou~de that can not be &s;ecretly heled / may openly be cured &amp; remedyed. But euer tho defautes &amp; offences that be~ open / may neuer &s;ecretly be amended. For open &s;ynne mu&s;t haue open penau~ce / that other per&s;ones whiche wolde folowe y^e example of euyll / may by that open rebuke be refour|med. Wherfore euery &abper;&s;one that in religyon wyll not by &s;ecrete maner be warned &amp; refourmed / mu&s;t open|ly (for reformacyon) be corrected and puny&s;&s;hed accor+dynge vnto the &s;tatutes / whiche correccyon yf he for|&s;ake / the ferther payne foloweth in y^e lettre. Qua~ &s;i ferre recu&s;auerit (etia~ &s;i ip&s;e no~ abce&s;&s;erit) de ve&s;tra &s;o|cietate proijciatur: no~ eni~ et hoc fit crudeliter / &s;ed mi|&s;ericorditer / ne co~tagione pe&s;tifera / plurimos perdat. That is. Whiche &s;ayd payne / correccyon &amp; puny&s;&s;he|ment / yf the tre&s;pacer wyll refu&s;e to take &amp; &s;uffre / let the &s;ame tre&s;pacer (all though he <ABBR>wold</ABBR> not departe) yet (I &s;aye) let hym be vtterly ca&s;t out &amp; put awaye from your company. And (I tell you) &s;o to do / is not cruelly / but rather mercyfully done. Le&s;t &s;uche a per|&s;one by that pe&s;tylencyous co~tagyon &amp; euyll example &s;holde infecte &amp; de&s;troy many other per&s;ones. This is the &s;econde puny&s;&s;hement y^t before I called expul&s;yon But here ye mu&s;t vnder&s;tande that this terme expul|&s;yon<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE>
<PB N="xlviij" REF="63">
/ whiche is to put a per&s;one clene &amp; vtterly away from the couent / is not taken / now / that ony profe&s;&s;ed per&s;one &s;holde be put out of y^e mona&s;tery where he is profe&s;&s;ed / excepte it were vnto a mona&s;tery of y^e &s;ame / or els of more &s;trayte rule &amp; religyon / &amp; that by y^e con|&s;ent of bothe partyes / y^t is to &s;aye / the &abper;&s;one y^t wolde departe &amp; the couent from whens he &s;hold departe / w^t the knowen grau~t of the couent where he &s;holde be re+ceyued. But the &s;ame &s;entence of the &s;ayd lettre of the rule / is to be vnder&s;tande &amp; ob&s;erued in the &s;ame mo|na&s;tery. For the rule &s;ayth not y^t &s;uche per&s;ones rebel|lyous &amp; ob&s;tynate &s;holde be put out of the mona&s;tery / but from the &s;ociete / from y^e company / from y^e couent / that is to &s;aye / to be put in holde / in pry&s;on / in warde or vnto puny&s;&s;hement &amp; correccyon / accordyng vnto y^e rule &amp; &s;tatutes of the place. And that (&s;ayth the rule) is not cruelly done / take hede now y^t after this lettre of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn / it is not cruelly / it is not malyce / ne contrary vnto charite / for one religyous per&s;one to proclayme the defaute of an other / nor yet for y^e &s;oue|rayne to correcte &amp; puny&s;&s;he y^e &s;ame / accordynge vnto the &s;tatutes / but rather it is mercy &amp; pyte / &amp; a mery|toryous dede of charite. For our lord god that is moo&s;t mercyfull &amp; al&s;o &s;elfe mercy / dothe (notw^t&s;tandynge) full &s;harply puny&s;&s;he his dere beloued people.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Apoc.</ABBR> iij</NOTE> Que~ diligo ca&s;tigo. whome I loue (&s;ayth he) I do correct / cha&s;ty&s;e &amp; puny&s;&s;he. So doubtles is it of euery &s;oue|rayne. And contrary. Qui parcit virge / odit filium.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prou. xii</NOTE> That &s;ouerayn y^t is remy&s;&s;e &amp; negligent in correccyon dothe not loue / but rather dothe hate the &s;ubiecte.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; For it is better y^t for the helth &amp; &s;aluacyon of many
<PB REF="64"> per&s;ones / one &abper;&s;one be co~dempned &amp; puny&s;&s;hed / than that many per&s;ones by y^e example of one lyght &abper;&s;one &s;holde pery&s;&s;he / or be in ieoperdy. Our lorde &s;ayth in y^e go&s;pell.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. xviij.</NOTE> If thyne eye do &s;claundre the / dygge it out &amp; ca&s;t it from the. For it is better thou lo&s;e one membre than thy hole body / &amp; &s;o of the hande or fote / by y^e whi+che is vnder&s;tande the membres of ony co~gregacyon / &s;pecyally &s;piritual per&s;ones / whiche all though they loue eche other / as theyr eye / or ryght hande / yet yf y^e hole body be &s;claundred by one per&s;one vncorrygyble / vnreformable / rather than the euyll example of y^t per|&s;one <ABBR>&s;hold</ABBR> infecte &amp; poy&s;on the hole body: let that per|&s;one be cutte from y^e body / &amp; from y^e couent. For better is it to lo&s;e the con&s;olacyon &amp; profyte of y^t one per&s;one / than the hole couent by that per&s;one &s;holde be lo&s;t and de&s;troyed. The texte.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> Et hoc quod dixi de oculo no~ fi|gendo: etia~ in ceteris inueniendis / &abpro;hibe~dis / iudican|dis / co~uincendi&s;&abque; peccatis: dilige~ter &amp; fideliter ob&s;er|uetur / cu~ dilectione hoi~m et odio vitio&abrum;.<NOTE PLACE="marg">xxxvj. di. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dio.</NOTE> That is. And this ordre &amp; proce&s;&s;e whiche here I haue a&s;&s;igned / ap+poynted &amp; declared for the garde &amp; kepynge of y^e &s;yght that it be not carnally fyxed vpon ony frayle or lyght per&s;one / I wyll al&s;o be dyligently kepte &amp; faythfully ob&s;erued / in all other defautes &amp; offences that &s;hall be fou~de / perceyued / forboden / iudged / co~uycte &amp; proued. And that euer with y^e loue of the per&s;ones / &amp; hate of y^e vyces and &s;ynnes. Here appereth the mynde of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn / that all though he put example in one de|faute / that is the lyght ca&s;t of the &s;yght / yet wyll he y^t other defautes &s;hold be corrected after the &s;ame ordre / but euer in charite / w^t the loue of the per&s;ones. For all though we hate the vyce / &amp; the per&s;one y^t doth y^e vyce
<PB N="xlix" REF="64"> as a &s;ynner &amp; for the vyce / yet done we not &s;yngulerly hate the per&s;one. And &s;o whan y^e charitable &s;ouerayn doth blame or correcte y^e &abper;&s;one for a defaute or offence / he rather doth correcte the offence &amp; vyce / than y^e per|&s;one. For &s;o to do (as is &s;ayd before) is not to hate / but rather moche to loue the per&s;one. Therfore doth this lettre conclude correccyon w^t charite / &s;ayenge. with y^e loue of y^e per&s;ones / &amp; hate of y^e vyce or &s;ynne. Here now</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Therfore &s;ayth this holy doctour &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn in an other place. So mu&s;t we loue the per&s;ones / that by no meane we loue theyr errours. For it is an other thynge / to loue the per&s;ones / in that they ben werke &amp; creatures of our lorde / &amp; to loue the &s;ynne or vyce that they do. Some per&s;ones there ben that wyll rebuke &amp; reproue y^e vyce &amp; defaute of other &abper;&s;ones / not &s;o moche for charite / as of &s;tomacke and dy&s;plea&s;ure of hatred. And not &s;o moche for the reformacyon of y^e vyce &amp; de|faute of y^e per&s;one / as to auenge theyr owne &s;tomacke &amp; hatred of herte. And that is not a godly waye. For y^e apperteyneth more vnto vengeaunce than vnto good di&s;ciplyne &amp; due reformacyon. Let therfore religyous per&s;ones beware they rebuke not theyr felowes with angre / or indignacyon / but rather w^t &s;wete &amp; gentyll wordes &amp; charitable behauyour. And al though &s;harp+nes appere &s;omtyme in y^e outwarde voyce &amp; wordes / yet let euer &s;oftnes &amp; &s;obrenes remayn &amp; re&s;t in y^e hert and mynde / accordynge vnto the precepte of y^e apo&s;tle Paule.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gala. vj</NOTE> Vos q^i &s;pirituales e&s;tis / in&s;truite huiu&s;modi in &s;pu~ lenitatis. You (&s;ayth he) that ben &s;pirituall per+&s;ones / teche you &amp; enfourme them y^t ben frayle &amp; igno+rau~t in the &s;piryte euer of &s;oftnes &amp; &s;obrenes. And full
<PB REF="65"> well foloweth in the &s;ame lettre. Le&s;t perauenture ye be tempted &amp; a&s;&s;ayled your &s;elfe. For that per&s;one that &s;holde rebuke an other per&s;one / &s;holde euer con&s;ydre y^t he is a &s;ynner / &amp; full frayle hym&s;elfe. For els he may be tempted &amp; &s;oone ouer&s;een / &amp; &s;o do by indignacyon y^t he &s;holde do by compa&s;&s;yon. Let therfore all rebuke &amp; correccyon be done w^t the loue of y^e per&s;ones / &amp; hate of the vyce. So y^t loue be kepte anen&s;t y^e per&s;one / &amp; hate agayn&s;t the &s;ynne. For y^e correccyon mu&s;t be done vnto the vyce / and compa&s;&s;yon euer vnto nature. And thus endeth the fourth chapitre of y^e rule / &amp; the trety al&s;o of the &s;econde e&s;&s;encyall of y^e &s;ame / &amp; of all religyon / that is to &s;ay / cha&s;tite cou~&s;eyled by our &s;auyour in y^e go&s;pel where is &s;ayd.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. xix.d.</NOTE> Some &abper;&s;ones ben enukes naturall / y^t is to meane / &s;ome per&s;ones of theyr naturall di&s;po&s;y|cyon ben gyuen vnto cha&s;tite. And &s;ome ben con&s;tray|ned therto agayn&s;t theyr wyll. But the very enukes &amp; true cha&s;te per&s;ones ben tho&s;e / that for the loue of our lorde done bynde them&s;elfe by vowe &amp; profe&s;&s;yon vnto cha&s;tite / as ye ben / whiche vowe with the due circu~|&s;taunce therof truly to kepe / our lorde Ie&s;u grau~t you and all profe&s;&s;ed therunto.</P>
<TRAILER>&para; Valete.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para; The fyfth chapytre of the rule.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ij. q. j. no~ <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">catis.</NOTE>_QVicu~&abque; aute~ in tantu~ &abpro;gre&s;&s;us fuerit ma|lum: vt occulte litteras / vel quodcu~&abque; mu|nus ab aliquo accipiat: &s;i hoc vltro co~fitet&abur;: parcatur ei / et oretur &abpro; eo. That is. But what &s;o euer per&s;ones religyous ben &s;o ferre ouer&s;een and &s;o ferre pa&s;&s;e in to &s;o grete my&s;chefe &amp; euyll / that pryuely they do receyue lettres or ony other gyfte / re|warde or token of ony per&s;one / yf they by theyr owne
<PB N="50" REF="65"> mynde &amp; free wyll do confe&s;&s;e theyr defaute / let them be fauourably delte with. And let al&s;o prayer be made for them. Here &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn begy~nyng to entreate of obedyence / the thyrde e&s;&s;encyall dothe more exactly &amp; more depely touche the fyr&s;t vowe of pouerty / wher+with he began / &amp; wherof he &s;pake / in two y^e fyr&s;t cha|pytres. In the other twayne ye haue herde how well he hath determyned of cha&s;tite. In the&s;e thre chapy|tres folowynge he entreateth of obedience / not &s;o to be taken / as though before he had not &s;poke~ of obedience For obedience is chefe lady &amp; may&s;tres / w^tout whiche the other no thynge or but lytell done auayle / &amp; ther|fore is obedience touched in euery chapytre / as vnder whome / &amp; by whome all the preceptes before gyuen ben gouerned &amp; ordred. But here I &s;aye he entreateth &s;pecyally of obedience / bycau&s;e he co~cludeth with obe+dience / as vnto whome all the other ben ordred &amp; &s;ub|dued. But fyr&s;t (I &s;aye) he repeteth the fyr&s;t vowe / &amp; &s;peketh agayne therof / but in an other maner / for in y^e fyr&s;t begy~nynge he dyd co~mau~de vnite / &amp; all thynges therfore to be co~mune. Now here he &s;peketh of y^e con|trary / that is propriete / wherby all y^e vowes &amp; all re|ligyon is de&s;troyed &amp; lo&s;t:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> where myne &amp; thyne done kepe y^e place / religyon is in an euyll ca&s;e. Therfore he condempneth here all propriete / &amp; a&s;&s;igneth puny&s;&s;he+ment therfore. Ye may al&s;o note here the grete grace of meke &amp; wylfull confe&s;&s;yon. wherof y^e grete Seneke &s;ayth. Qui &s;ponte fatetur facinus: accipit&abur; tan&abquam; non reus. That per&s;one y^t of his owne mynde &amp; good wyll doth knowlege his owne defaute / is taken as not gyl+ty / as though in maner he had neuer done the offence But whan confe&s;&s;yon is not made / or els made by con+&s;traynt
<PB REF="66">
/ it lytell or nought auayleth. And y^e puny&s;&s;he|ment mu&s;t (of rea&s;on) be more greuous. So &s;ayth</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Saynt Augu&s;tyn &s;ayth here that &s;uche religyous per&s;ones as done pryuely receyue ony thynge / done therin entre in to grete euyll &amp; grete &s;ynne / &amp; that is / bycau&s;e that &s;o to receyue ony thynge / is to peruerte &amp; de&s;troye the ordre &amp; very purpo&s;e &amp; entent of religyon He mu&s;t therfore do grete &s;ynne / y^t breketh his ordre and that de&s;troyeth his relygyon. The holy prophete Helize wolde neuer &s;o terrybly haue cur&s;ed / &amp; therby ca&s;t Gyezy his di&s;cyple in to y^e greuous &s;ekenes of le|prenes / excepte he had well knowen how grete &s;ynne it is &amp; di&s;plea&s;ure to god / to take ony gyfte or reward pryuely. By who&s;e example we ben taught to knowe how grete correccyon they ben worthy &amp; done de&s;erue that pryuely w^tout knowlege of theyr &s;ouerayne done receyue ony thynge. Notw^t&s;tandynge yf they of theyr mynde &amp; good wyll do knowlege the defaut / let them be y^e more ea&s;yly delte with / &amp; let them be prayed fore. For that &s;ynne euer and defaute is made more lyght / that by voluntary confe&s;&s;yon is made open &amp; playnly &s;hewed.<NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al. xxxj.</NOTE> The p&s;almi&s;t &s;ayth. Dixi confitebor aduer|&s;um me iniu&s;ticia~ mea~ dn~o: et tu remi&s;i&s;ti impietate~ peccati mei. That is. I made perfyte &abpro;me&s;&s;e that I wolde confe&s;&s;e vnto our lorde &amp; knowlege agayn&s;t my &s;elfe myne owne vnryght wy&s;nes. And y^u good lorde dyde&s;t remytte &amp; forgyue y^e wyckednes of &s;ynne. The lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. &abpre;&s;vite ri vel etia~ e&abpre;i graui+us emen|det&abur;.</NOTE> Si aute~ deprehendit&abur; at&abque; te&s;tibus co~uincitur: &s;ecu~du~ arbitriu~ &abpre;po&s;iti <ABBR>vl</ABBR> pre&s;biteri: grauius puniat&abur;. That is. But yf they be fou~de &amp; taken w^t the defaute / and thervpon accu&s;ed / co~uycted / &amp; by wytnes proued
<PB N="lj" REF="66"> gylty / let them than after the iudgement of the pre&s;y|dent or &s;ouerayne be more greuou&s;ly puny&s;&s;hed. Here ye may perceyue that the defaute that is proclaymed &s;holde more greuou&s;ly be corrected / than the defaute y^t is confe&s;&s;ed.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> Note here al&s;o how this lettre / &amp; al&s;o all that foloweth / doth layne alway &amp; is ioyned vnto obe+dience. Now &s;peketh</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The more greuous y^e defaut be / the more greuous correccyon belongeth thervnto. But of a &s;urety / tho&s;e religyous &abper;&s;ones done greuou&s;ly &amp; mortally offende / that bothe done y^t euyll to receyue ony thynge in pro|priete / &amp; al&s;o done therto hyde y^e &s;ame from theyr &s;oue+rayne. Of lettres &amp; tokens &s;aynt Ierome thus wry|teth.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Epla</ABBR> inc<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> pit pet&abis; a me nepo|tiane.</NOTE> Swete lettres &amp; &s;udaryes / &amp; &s;uche other tokens ofte &s;ent / holy loue dothe neuer admytte ne yet de&s;yre to haue. And who &s;o delyteth &amp; taketh plea&s;ure in &s;u|che tryfles / is by grete vanite &s;ore deceyued. For the more he delyteth in the&s;e lowe &amp; erthly thynges / the more is he letted &amp; put away from hygh and heuenly thynges. For of y^e delectacyon of &s;uche vanytees / ma|ny euylles &amp; inco~uenyentes be~ oftentymes engendred And who &s;o perfytly wylleth &amp; de&s;yreth to auoyde all vyce / dothe &s;tudy &amp; gyue dylygence / not onely to flee &amp; for&s;ake tho thynges that of them&s;elfe ben euyll / but al&s;o all &s;uche thynges y^t may gyue occa&s;yon of euyll. The engly&s;&s;he &abpro;uerbe is / who &s;o wyll none euyll do / wyll do thynge that longeth therto.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> It is therfore ne|ce&s;&s;ary &amp; co~uenyent for religyous per&s;ones / y^t ben not onely bou~de to do well them&s;elfe / but al&s;o to gyue vn|to all other per&s;ones good example / y^t they no thynge do / wherby &s;u&s;picyon of euyll / or occa&s;yon myght be taken. The lettre. Ve&s;tes ve&s;tras in vnu~ habeatis
<PB REF="67"> &s;ub vno cu&s;tode / vel duobus / vel quot &s;ufficere po&s;&s;int ad eas excutie~das ne a tinea ledant&abur;. Et &s;icut pa&s;cimi|ni ex vno cellario: &s;ic induamini ex vno ve&s;tiario. That is. Ye &s;hall put your clothynge in the kepynge of one offycer / or twayne / or as many as may be &s;uffycyent to kepe them clene and &s;afe that they be not corrupted ne hurte w^t mothes. And as ye ben fedde out of one cel|lary / &s;o &s;hall you be clothed out of one ve&s;tiary. Here &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn doth &s;hewe wherin propriete may be v&s;ed / that is to &s;aye / in thynges of moo&s;t nece&s;&s;ite vn|to man / w^tout whiche no per&s;one may lyue naturally that is to &s;aye / fode &amp; clothynge. The fode &s;aynt Au|gu&s;tyn doth pre&s;uppo&s;e to be co~mune in euery mona|&s;tery / as mete and drynke / accordynge vnto his ordy|nau~ce in the begy~nynge of this rule / where he co~mau~+ded all thynges to be co~mune / namynge &s;pecyally fo|de &amp; cloth. Here therfore (as I &s;ayd) he dothe exclude propriete / whiche co~munly is or may be more v&s;ed in clothynge than in fode. For the clothynge is a&s;&s;ygned by certayne and determynate garmentes vnto euery &s;ynguler per&s;one by hym&s;elfe / all though all onely vn+to v&s;e / &amp; not vnto &abpro;priete. For y^t v&s;e al&s;o is euer vncer|tayne / at the wyll &amp; di&s;crecyon of the &s;ouerayne / &amp; not of the werer / &amp; therfore he co~mau~deth they &s;hall take &amp; receyue theyr clothynge out of one place called here the ve&s;tiary / whiche in all mona&s;teryes is called the chambre or chambery. For as they ben &s;erued of fode out of one celary / &s;oo mu&s;t they be clothed out of the chambery / out of that offyce. This poynt of the rule is moche agayn&s;t the co~mune v&s;e of many mona&s;te|ryes / where they take &s;typend or wages at a &s;omme of money determyned / and therwith &amp; by theyr owne
<PB N="lij" REF="67"> propre labours / whiche al&s;o (by this rule) &s;hold be co~|mune / to prouyde for them&s;elfe in all theyr aray / or at the le&s;t in grete parte therof. And be&s;yde y^t &s;typende or porcion / they haue licence to gyue therof at theyr plea+&s;ure where they wyl / &amp; to receyue of theyr frendes vn+to theyr owne v&s;e what is gyuen them / &amp; to gyue a|gayn what they wyl / to &s;ende &amp; receyue lettres w^tout ony knowlege of the &s;ouerayne / to lende &amp; to borowe / and &s;o to be in dette / &amp; haue detters / and yet ferther to bargayne / bye &amp; &s;ell for theyr owne v&s;e &amp; auauntage / as vnto them &s;emeth be&s;t. whiche thynge &s;emeth vn+to me ferre out of ioynt &amp; all good ordre / and expre&s;ly agayn&s;t this holy rule. I wyll no thynge determyne agayn&s;t ony other lerned men in this behalf / but this I dare well &s;ay / that who &s;o euer do v&s;e them&s;elfe af+ter y^e maner before &s;ayd / they do not perfytly ob&s;erue this rule / ne be not very ob&s;eruau~tes therof. It is not all one thynge / a per&s;one to prouyde for hym&s;elfe / as for hym&s;elfe alone / &amp; to prouyde for hym&s;elfe amonge other / as for one of y^e congregacyon or couent. For vn|to this latre is euery religyous offycer bou~de by y^e &s;o|ueraynes byddynge or lycence / but the other may no &abpro;fe&s;&s;ed &abper;&s;ones do (after myn opynyon) kepyng theyr rule after theyr profe&s;&s;yon. I &s;aye after myn opinyon for in this it is lawfull to holde opinyon / alegy~ge &s;pe+cyally &s;cripture or lawe / or ony of the pryncypall ap|proued doctours. This therfore is herin myn opinion that no reguler &s;ouerayne may lawfully (kepynge y^e rule) gyue lycence / lyberty or power vnto ony &s;ubiect to haue ony &s;typende or wages at a &s;omme determy|ned or appoynted / as .x.&s;. a yere .iiij. markes .v. mar|kes. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> and w^t that wages / &s;typend or &s;omme to pro|uyde
<PB REF="68"> for theyr owne clothynge alone / &amp; to v&s;e that cer+tayne &s;omme vnto theyr owne auau~tage &amp; plea&s;ure as they wyll / w^tout ony accou~te therof or controllyng as co~munly they do in all mona&s;teryes where &s;typen+de &amp; wages is gyuen. This (I &s;ay) may no &s;ouerayn do / ne ony &s;ubiecte take. And this is my rea&s;on. The preceptes &amp; co~mau~dementes of the lawe / as well the newe as olde / ben vndi&s;pen&s;able (all though by y^e po|pes &s;anctite they may be interpretable) But the cou~|&s;eyles of y^e go&s;pell: vnto &s;uche per&s;ones as by vowe &amp; &abpro;fe&s;&s;yon done bynde them&s;elfe thervnto / ben co~mau~|dementes: ergo vnto all profe&s;&s;ed &abper;&s;ones theyr vowes whiche ben the cou~&s;eyles of y^e go&s;pell / ben vnto them vndi&s;pen&s;able. Ergo theyr &abpre;lates or &s;oueraynes may not gyue them lycence to y^e contrary / for to gyue them lycence &s;o to v&s;e ony certayne &s;omme / is contrary the &s;ayd cou~&s;eyles of the go&s;pell / as appereth by y^e &s;ame. Si vis &abper;fect&abus; e&s;&s;e / vade et vende oi~a que habes / et &s;e|quere me.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xix.</NOTE> That is. Yf thou wylte be perfyte / yf thou wylte be a very &amp; vnfeyned religyous &abper;&s;one / go forth and &s;ell all that thou ha&s;t / &amp; come &amp; folowe me.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> Note well what our &s;auyour &s;ayd. Fyr&s;t he &s;ayd yf y^u wylt / by that appereth it is no co~maundement / but onely a cou~&s;eyle vnto all chry&s;tians generall. But than yf ony &s;ynguler per&s;ones &s;o wyl / they mu&s;t do y^e foloweth / &amp; &s;pecyally yf they bynde them&s;elfe by theyr owne free wyll &amp; mynde vnco~&s;trayned thervnto / they mu&s;t nede than &abper;fourme theyr bonde / accordynge vnto y^e &s;ame. Se now what is theyr bonde / the very &s;ame cou~&s;eyle of Chry&s;t. Take hede than what he &s;ayd. Goo forth (&s;ayth he) or go thy waye / that is / that fyr&s;t all &s;uche per&s;ones mu&s;t go from the worlde / renou~ce &amp; for&s;ake
<PB N="liij" REF="68"> all that belongeth thervnto. And than next they mu&s;t &s;ell / not gyue or ca&s;t away all y^t they haue / that terme haue / mu&s;t be well taken &amp; marked. For in y^e latyn is wryten / habes / and that verbe habeo doth betoken to holde or to kepe in propriete.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xix</NOTE> So this text of y^e go&s;pell wyll y^t the perfyte &abper;&s;one / or rather y^e per&s;one that wyl+leth to be perfyte / &s;holde &s;ell all propriete / all that they may holde or kepe vnto them&s;elfe in propriete. I &s;aye agayne they mu&s;t &s;ell it / not gyue it / ne ca&s;t it away / what is to &s;ell / but to take an other thynge therfore y^t vnto the &s;eller is better or more nedefull &amp; profytable / than the thynge &s;olde. The &s;eller (ye &s;e well) is y^e per|&s;one that wolde be &abper;fyte / &amp; the ware to be &s;olde / is all propriete / the byer is he that neuer &s;hall fare y^e better for the ware. For he hath no nede / ne euer can be y^e bet+ter therby / but onely that he wyll bye it for pyte / &amp; for the nede &amp; vau~tage of y^e &s;eller. This byer &amp; marchau~t is our lorde &amp; &s;auyour Ie&s;u. And what trowe ye chry+&s;tyans he &abpro;freth &amp; wyll gyue therfore?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xix</NOTE> Quicu~&abque; re|liquerit domu~ vel agros. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> centuplu~ accipiet / et vita~ eterna~ po&s;&s;idebit. Who &s;o (&s;ayth he) for my &s;ake wyll leue &amp; for&s;ake all propriete / he &s;hall haue therfore an hondreth tymes as moche as he leueth. And al&s;o he &s;hall haue for his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon and enherytau~ce the lyfe eterne &amp; euerla&s;tynge. This is a grete gaynes / this ware is well &s;olde. For in this world he &s;hall haue for euery peny .C. pens. For he &s;hall be better co~tented w^t the waye &amp; lyfe &s;pirytuall that he taketh for god .C. fold / &amp; better &s;aty&s;fyed a .C. fold / than euer he myght be with ony goodes temporall / &amp; the re&s;ydue of y^e pay+ment is ine&s;tymable gaynes to haue for the&s;e goodes tran&s;ytorite / po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon &amp; enherytau~ce euerla&s;tynge.
<PB REF="69"> But yet mu&s;t ye knowe by whome this marchaunt our &s;auyour wyll receyue this ware &s;olde (For he (as I tolde you) hath no nede therof) The lettre of y^e go&s;|pell &s;heweth / where is &s;ayd.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xxv</NOTE> Et da pauperibus. He wyll receyue it by y^e handes of y^e poore. For in an other place he &s;ayth. What &s;o euer ye do vnto y^e lee&s;t of myn for my &s;ake / ye do that vnto me. Yet chry&s;tyans / yet there remayneth a clau&s;e &amp; a co~clu&s;yon / that maketh onely for our purpo&s;e. Et &s;equere me. And after all this (&s;ayth he) folowe me. Se now all that before is &s;ayd / no thynge / or but lytell auayleth w^tout that con|clu&s;yon / to folowe Chry&s;t. For he went before / he ful|fylled that he cou~&s;eyled. For no thynge dyd he reteyne vnto propre v&s;e / ne yet gaue lycence vnto ony that fo|lowed hym / to haue ony &s;typend or wages / or ony cer+tayne &s;omme vnto theyr owne &abpro;ui&s;yon. The apo&s;tles lyued in co~mune.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Act.</ABBR> v.</NOTE> And we rede in the actes of them / y^e two per&s;ones whiche w^tout vowe or profe&s;&s;yon made thervnto / onely entrepry&s;ynge &amp; takynge vpon them to folowe the &s;ayd cou~&s;eyle / and to lyue in co~mune / by+cau&s;e contrary theyr entrepry&s;e and apperynge / they kept parte of theyr owne goodes vnto theyr owne v&s;e they were by y^e vengeau~ce of god &s;tryken &s;odeynly to deth / &amp; theyr bodyes buryed in y^e wylde felde / &amp; theyr &s;oules in y^e pyt of perdicyon. What &s;hall than become of them that make vowe &amp; &s;olempne profe&s;&s;yon &amp; pro|me&s;&s;e / &amp; thervpon done receyue the ble&s;&s;ed body of our lord / what (I &s;ay) &s;hall become of them / yf they kepe it not? I am affrayde &s;urely to thynke what &s;hall be|come of them. For they ben bou~de to kepe y^t cou~&s;eyle of our &s;auyour / not as a cou~&s;eyle / but as a co~mau~deme~t after theyr prome&s;&s;e / &amp; that accordynge vnto the very
<PB N="liiij" REF="69"> lettre of the rule / whiche dothe gyue them no lycence to haue wages / nor yet to prouyde by ony lycence for them&s;elfe alone / as for them&s;elfe of ony thy~ges / not &s;o moche as fode or clothynge or ony other thynge moo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary vnto the lyuynge of man / as playnly appe|reth in the lettre. Of this mater &s;hal I wryte more at large in y^e &s;econde parte of our e&s;&s;encyalles / whiche ye &s;hall haue as &s;oone as I haue done w^t this rule. Now here</P>
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<P>&para; That &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn doth here co~mau~de y^e di&s;cy|ples of this rule to put theyr clothynge or aray in one place vnder co~mune officers / two cau&s;es (as &s;emeth) done moue hym. One / le&s;t by negligence they &s;hold be lo&s;t or hurte w^t mothes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note w<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> this &s;aie<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+ge of &s;ay<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Hugh.</NOTE> The other le&s;t the v&s;er of the ve&s;ture or clothynge &s;holde therby haue &abpro;prete / yf he myght kepe it where he <ABBR>wold</ABBR> / and v&s;e it whan hym ly&s;t: vnto the whiche &s;entence accordeth y^e lettre &amp; text that foloweth. Si aute~ fieri pote&s;t: ad vos no~ &abper;tineat <ABBR>qd</ABBR> vobis indumentu~ &abpro; te~poru~ congruentia &abpro;feratur: vtru~ hoc recipiat vnu&s;qui&s;&abque;: <ABBR>qd</ABBR> depo&s;uerat: an aliud <ABBR>qd</ABBR> alter habuerat / du~ tamen vnicui&abque; &abpro;ut cui&abque; opus fuerit: no~ negetur. That is. And yf it may be that the garment wyll &s;erue / care you no thynge / as belon|gynge vnto you what garment / accordynge vnto the &s;ea&s;on of the yere / be profred vnto you / ne whiche gar+ment ye receyue / wheder it be the &s;ame y^t for the tyme ye layde away / or an other garment that an other of your felowes had. So that vnto none of you y^t is ne|ce&s;&s;ary be denyed. Se now how playnly doth appere in this texte / that to haue &s;typend or wages / &amp; to pro|uyde for them&s;elfe &s;yngulerly alone / is agayn&s;t this rule. For how <ABBR>&s;hold</ABBR> tho&s;e &abper;&s;ones prouyde garmentes
<PB REF="70"> for them&s;elfe / that may not in the &s;omer haue the ke|pynge of theyr owne wynter clothynge / ne in y^e wyn|ter of the &s;omer clothynge / but to haue it all at the de|lyuerau~ce of the offycers / &amp; that as it cometh / not lo|kynge for the &s;ame he had before / but to take whiche &s;o euer is brought / better or wor&s;e / &s;o it may &s;erue the per&s;one. That is &s;ayd / bycau&s;e a lytell garment wyll not &s;erue a large body / ne a &s;hort &s;hoo a longe fote / nor a narowe ho&s;e a grete legge / &amp; &s;o lyke other thynges. That terme &s;i fieri pote&s;t / yf it may be / may be taken for the difficultie of the mynde of the per&s;one that can not be content to were the garment that an other had worne / but to haue the &s;ame he had before / &amp; &s;o by ly|cence he may haue the &s;ame / not at his owne choy&s;e &amp; wyll / but by a&s;&s;ignement.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> Notwith&s;tandyng it were more after the perfeccyon of this rule / that y^e di&s;ciples of the &s;ame &s;holde &s;et &s;o lytell by theyr owne plea&s;ure that w^tout grudge they toke what were profred / &amp; to be co~tent w^t that garment alone / that wolde &s;erue the body &amp; were nedefull therfore.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Tim~. vj</NOTE> The apo&s;tle &s;ayth. If we haue fode &amp; clothynge / we ben content therwith / he determyneth not y^e qua~tite / nor qualite therof / y^t is to &s;aye / neyther how moche / nor what maner of fode or clothynge we &s;holde haue / but onely doth he name that is nece&s;&s;ary / &amp; y^t &s;uffy&s;eth vnto nature. For &s;uche per&s;ones as want &abper;feccyon / haue alway more appe|tyte in wyll &amp; de&s;yre than is nece&s;&s;ary for nature. For as &s;aynt Ierom &s;ayth. Mannes nature is content w^t a lytell / but an euyll cu&s;tome &amp; therwith wyll &amp; plea|&s;ure / done adde &amp; multyply more than nature wolde requyre. But who &s;o loued almyghty god perfytly &amp; dyd vtterly for&s;ake the de&s;yres of y^e fle&s;&s;he / &s;holde ca&s;t
<PB N="lv" REF="70"> awaye many thynges as &s;uperfluous / whiche they holde / kepe &amp; v&s;e as nece&s;&s;ary. Let vs therfore lerne to loue our lord. And &s;o for his loue / &amp; by y^e vertue therof we may &s;tudy &amp; gyue diligence / bothe to be content w^t that is nece&s;&s;ary / &amp; al&s;o to put &amp; for&s;ake all &s;up&abper;fluyte. So whan vnto no per&s;one is denyed y^t is nece&s;&s;ary / &amp; agayne no &abper;&s;one do a&s;ke ne de&s;yre that is not nedefull Charite may be v&s;ed after her owne propriete / whi|che is neuer to &s;eke / ne labour for &s;elfe &abpro;fyte ne auayle but alway to preferre the co~mune welth. For charite cau&s;eth a &abper;&s;one to thynke them&s;elfe abiecte in y^e hous of god / an outca&s;t &amp; vnworthy ony thy~ge to haue lyke other &abper;&s;ones. And therfore who &s;o perfytly hath cha|rite / wyll &s;omtyme for&s;ake &amp; be content to lacke parte of that were nece&s;&s;ary. The lettre. Si aute~ hinc inter vos co~tentiones &amp; murmurationes oriant&abur; / et conque|ratur &s;e aliquis deterius accepi&s;&s;e &abquam; prius habuerat / et indignu~&s;e e&s;&s;e / qui non ita ve&s;tiat&abur; &s;icut alius frater eius ve&s;tiebat&abur;: hinc vos probate qua~tu~ vobis de&s;it in illo interiore &s;cto~ habitu cordis / qui &abpro; habitu corporis litigatis. That is. But yf therof / contencyon / &s;tryfe / murmure or grudge done growe &amp; ary&s;e amonge you and one complayne he hath a wor&s;e garment than he had before / &amp; that he hath not de&s;erued / nor is worthy to be clothed as his felowe is: therin may ye &abpro;ue your &s;elfe &amp; perceyue how moche ye want inwarde of the holy habyte &amp; aray of the herte and &s;oule / that &s;o done &s;tryue for the habyte &amp; clothynge of y^e body. Loo now &s;e and perceyue how &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne dothe folowe the purpo&s;e that before I &s;pake of / that is / that no per&s;one / di&s;cyple of this rule / &s;holde be in &s;urety of ony thynge / not &s;o moche as of the clothes that they
<PB REF="71"> before had worne &amp; v&s;ed. And why trowe you? The why &amp; cau&s;e is declared in the &s;elfe lettre / moche accor+dynge vnto y^e reuelacyon of our &s;auyour vnto our ho|ly moder &s;aynt Birgit in our rule. That is to &s;aye / by+cau&s;e &s;uche &s;typendes &amp; &s;ynguler prouy&s;yons done in a mona&s;tery dyuyde / departe &amp; de&s;troye the laudable vnite of religyon / whiche in y^e front &amp; begynnynge of this rule / is chefely &amp; moo&s;t &s;traytly co~mau~ded. And al&s;o they done corrupte &amp; brynge to nought y^e co~mune equite &amp; iu&s;tyce / whiche is to wey &amp; con&s;ydre what is nedefull / not what is plea&s;ure / &amp; to v&s;e al&s;o y^e nedeful / not by &s;elfe iudgeme~t / not by &s;elfe appetyte / but onely vnder obedience w^t all humilite / to be content with the wyll &amp; appoyntment of y^e rule &amp; rulers therof / that is to &s;aye / y^e &s;oueraynes. Where &s;typendes co~trary done ordeyne for theyr plea&s;ure what they wyll &amp; can de|uy&s;e / &amp; that cau&s;es in habytes &s;o moche difformyte &amp; varyau~ce / &s;o that in one quere ye &s;hall &s;e amonge reli|gyous per&s;ones dyuer&s;e colours &amp; fa&s;hons / &s;ome vio|let / &s;ome darke tawny / &amp; &s;ome blacke / &s;ome fyne / and &s;ome cour&s;e / &s;ome pynched / &amp; &s;ome playne / &s;ome gar|ded / &amp; &s;ome he~med / &amp; as they be / &s;o they &s;hewe / all va|ryaunt / where they &s;holde (after the rule) in all thyn|ges be as one per&s;one / &amp; take w^tout prouy&s;yon or &s;tu|dy theyr very nece&s;&s;aryes as they ben delyuered vnto them / neuer notynge what other per&s;ones haue / ne what before they had / &s;o they alway haue y^t is nece&s;|&s;ary. Here now holy</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Saynt Augu&s;tyn in an other place dothe de&s;crybe what is &s;tryfte / or to &s;tryue / &s;ayenge. Contencyon / or &s;tryfte is whan the one parte with ob&s;tynate mynde or &s;tomacke wyll holde &amp; defende theyr owne opinyon
<PB N="lvj" REF="71"> and not &s;erche or lene vnto rea&s;on or trouth / but rather with many or inordynate wordes done wery &amp; make dull the mynde of the other party. The habyte &amp; aray of the herte / is &s;anctifyed &amp; &s;acred by the grace of god by the inhabytacyon &amp; dwellynge of the holy ghoo&s;t / whan charite / peace / bou~te / mekenes / pacyence / vni|te / co~corde / gentyll behauyour / &amp; &s;uche other vertues done dwell in vs. The inwarde ryches &amp; ornamentes of relygyous per&s;ones / ben good maners &amp; vertues. But yf they begyn to co~tende &amp; &s;tryue / to murmure &amp; grudge amonge them&s;elfe / they &s;hall &s;oone be voyde of the&s;e vertues. For vyce &amp; vertue wyll not dwell to|gyder. A lytell poy&s;on marreth a grete dele of mete. Religyous &abper;&s;ones therfore &s;holde proue &amp; &s;erche them &s;elfe / &amp; diligently pondre &amp; wey / how moche &abper;feccyon they want inwarde in theyr hertes / &amp; al&s;o in to how grete lo&s;&s;e and domage they renne / that &s;o done &s;tryue for &s;uche tran&s;ytory thynges. For they lo&s;e y^t thynge that &s;holde make them ble&s;&s;ed vpon erthe / y^t is to &s;aye re&s;t &amp; peace. Moche therfore &s;hold religyous per&s;ones beware of &s;tryfte / co~tencyon &amp; debate. For the&s;e ben y^e werkes of our fraylty &amp; of &s;ynne.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gala. v.</NOTE> And (as the apo&s;tle &s;ayth) who &s;o dothe &s;uche werkes / &s;hall neuer haue po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon in the kyngdome of heuen. And therfore in an other place he warneth vs &s;ayenge.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Phil.</ABBR> ij.</NOTE> Do no thynge by co~tencyon / nor by vayne glory / but that eche of you &s;uppo&s;e &amp; iudge that his felowe is better than he. All you &s;yngulerly &s;tudy &amp; do as moche as ye can for the co~mune welth / but not for your owne / thynke you &amp; iudge / y^t your felowe hath more nede than you / &amp; that of ryght he &s;holde haue more than you. For the&s;e ben two &s;ynguler remedyes to put away &s;tryfe / &amp; to nou|ry&s;&s;he
<PB REF="72"> concorde / that is to &s;aye / yf ye thynke your &s;elfe inferyours vnto all other. And yf ye wey y^t is nedefull vnto other more tha~ vnto your &s;elfe. For in the&s;e tway+ne / humilite &amp; charite done appere / whiche two ver|tues done moo&s;t de&s;troye co~tencyon / and moo&s;t reduce di&s;corde vnto vnite / peace &amp; co~corde. But bycau&s;e this &s;entence before &s;ayd apperteyneth vnto &s;uche &abper;&s;ones as ben &abper;fyte / therfore &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn doth &s;omwhat ea&s;e the mater for them that ben le&s;&s;e &abper;fyte. Addynge this lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">l. in origi~ali <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ta &s;ane / vt <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ulla &s;ibi ali|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">uid operet&abur;: <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ue vnde in|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">uat&abur;: &s;iue vbi aceat: &s;iue vn+<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e <ABBR>cin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at:</ABBR> vel <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">periatur: v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> aput co~tegat ed oi~a. <ABBR>&amp;c</ABBR>. Ex Iohanne <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">a&s;&s;iano libro iii. de i~&s;titut. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">enficiantiu~. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">a. xiiii.</NOTE> Tamen &s;i ve&s;tra toleratur infirmitas: vt recipiatis <ABBR>qd</ABBR> po&s;ueritis: in vno tamen loco &s;ub co~mu|nib&abus; cu&s;todib&abus; / habete <ABBR>qd</ABBR> ponitis. Ita &s;ane: vt nullus <ABBR>aliqd</ABBR> &s;ibi operetur: &s;ed oi~a opera ve&s;tra in vnu~ fiant: maiori &s;tudio et frequentiori alacritate: &abquam; &s;i vobis &s;in|gulis faceretis &abpro;pria. Charitas eni~ de qua &s;criptu~ e&s;t &abquod; no~ querit q~ &s;ua &s;unt: &s;ic intelligit&abur;: quia co~munia pro+prijs: no~ propria co~munib&abus; anteponit. That is to &s;ay. Notw^t&s;tandynge / yf your infirmite &amp; fraylte be &s;o con+&s;ydred &amp; &s;uffred of the officers / that ye receyue y^e &s;ame garmentes / ye layde awaye for the tyme / yet &s;hall ye put all your &s;tuffe in one place / vnder the kepyng of y^e co~mune offycers.<NOTE PLACE="marg">In the origi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">all of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hus wryten. So al&s;o that none of you do werke / la|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">our / ne ma|ke ony thyn|ge for the~&s;el|fe eyther clo|thyng or bed+dynge to lye vpon or to co+uer the~ with: or ony gyr|delles / or &s;u|che other: but that all. <ABBR>&amp;c</ABBR>.</NOTE> So al&s;o that none of you do werke ne labour ony thynge for them&s;elfe / but that all your werkynge &amp; labours be done in one vnto the co~mune &abpro;fyte. And y^t with more &s;tudy / more cure / with better wyll &amp; diligence / &amp; al&s;o with more gladnes of herte &amp; chere / tha~ yf eche of you wrought &amp; laboured for them &s;elfe. For charite (wherof &s;aynt Paule wryteth) that in the charitable per&s;one / doth not &s;eke ne de&s;yre &abpro;pre auayle &amp; profyte / ne yet &s;elfe plea&s;ure (that charite I &s;aye) mu&s;t thus be vnder&s;tand &amp; taken / that euer the &s;ame charite doth put the co~mune profyte before ony
<PB N="lvij" REF="72"> propre or &s;ynguler profyte / &amp; neuer dothe &s;he put ony propre or &s;ynguler auau~tage before y^e co~mune welth. Here may ye &abper;ceyue how one &s;entence dothe declare &amp; make euermore playne that before is &s;poken. And all &s;owneth vtterly agayn&s;t the &s;typendes &amp; &s;elfe prouy|&s;yon y^t co~munly is v&s;ed. For by this lettre is no power nor lycence gyuen vnto ony per&s;one / to axe or to cho&s;e ony ve&s;ture that they before had v&s;ed: but y^t is put in the di&s;crecyon of y^e officers / &amp; &s;pecyally y^e &s;oueraynes / that where they co~&s;ydre the infirmite of ony im&abper;fyte per&s;one / they may for y^e more quietude &amp; re&s;t of mynde delyuer vnto theyr vncertayne v&s;e the &s;ame garment that they had before / but euer they mu&s;t put all in to the co~mune offyce / &amp; from thens receyue all. And y^t is after holy</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Bycau&s;e that whan all is &s;o had from the co~mune offyce / the v&s;ers therof &s;hall knowe well they haue no propriete therin / all though they haue (for y^e tyme) the propre v&s;e therof at vncertaynte.<NOTE PLACE="marg">A note of the tran&s;+latour.</NOTE> How may they &s;aye than / they kepe this rule y^t haue &s;typende / &amp; done pro|uyde for them&s;elfe? Truly I can not &s;e how / &s;pecyal|ly &s;yth (as foloweth in the lettre) they may not v&s;e theyr owne werkes nor labours for theyr owne &abpro;fyte ne after theyr plea&s;ure / but all in co~mune. Whervpon he allegeth &amp; bryngeth after</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The &s;entence &amp; auctorite of y^e apo&s;tle / &amp; expowneth the &s;ame as ye haue herde. This is than y^e cau&s;e why no &abper;&s;one di&s;cyple of this rule &s;hall werke ne labour for them&s;elf / but all in co~mune / bycau&s;e y^t charite wyll no thynge de&s;yre for &s;elfe &abpro;fyte / ne for &s;ynguler plea&s;ure but charite euer doth preferre &amp; &s;et the co~mune welth before ony propre plea&s;ure or &s;elfe &abpro;fyte. Yf than chry+&s;tyan
<PB REF="73"> charite doth not requyre / ne labour for ony &s;elfe profyte / how &s;hold a religyous &abper;&s;one labour or werke for them&s;elfe? And yf the charite of Chry&s;t / y^t is to &s;ay of euery faythful chry&s;tyan co~munly do preferre &amp; &s;et the co~mune welth before &s;elfe profyte. Religyous per+&s;ones than whiche be~ more &s;traytly bou~de / mu&s;t nede of rea&s;on do y^e co~mune labours with more diligence / &amp; with more gladde mynde / than theyr owne &s;ynguler profyte or auayle. For y^e fruyte &amp; meryte of charite / is more than of propriete. For our lorde hath prepared &amp; ordeyned for his louers / that thynge that no eye may &s;e / ne ere may here / ne ony hert may thynke. Therfore foloweth in the lettre. Et ideo quanto amplius rem co~mune~ / &abquam; propria ve&s;tra curaueritis: tanto amplius vos &abpro;ficere noueritis / vt in oi~bus q^ibus vtitur tran&s;i|toria nece&s;&s;itas: &s;u&abper;emineat que permanet charitas. That is. And therfore how moche ye do care more for the co~mune welth / than for your &s;ynguler &abpro;fyte. So moche (I wyll ye knowe) you done &abpro;fyte more vnto this ende &amp; purpo&s;e / that charite whiche for euer re|mayneth &amp; la&s;teth / be more preferred / and more &s;et by than the&s;e tra~&s;ytory thynges &amp; te~porall goodes / whi|che here we done v&s;e for our nece&s;&s;ite &amp; nede. In this &s;entence &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn doth courage &amp; conforte the di&s;cyples of this rule / to folowe his &s;ayd ordynaunce bycau&s;e of the goodnes &amp; profyte &s;pirytuall y^t cometh therof / that is to &s;aye / the encreace of charite whiche is noury&s;&s;hed &amp; multyplyed more by y^e co~mune welth than by &s;ynguler &abpro;fyte. And therfore y^e more we pro|mote &amp; cure the co~mune welth / and the le&s;&s;e we &s;et by &s;ynguler profyte / the more we done growe &amp; encreace in charite / y^e moo&s;t noble vertue &amp; moo&s;t high meryte.
<PB N="lviij" REF="73"> Here now your may&s;ter.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; This tran&s;ytory nece&s;&s;ite / mu&s;t nede v&s;e thynges tran&s;ytory / as te~porall goodes &amp; te~porall &s;tudy &amp; pro|uy&s;yon / but euer let charite haue ouer them preemy|nence &amp; &s;oueraynte. For w^tout charite / no thynge may plea&s;e god. Therfore in all thynges that we done / let euer charite (I &s;aye) haue preemynence. For charite is y^e moder of all vertues / the rote of all goodnes. Cha+rite is y^e hygh &amp; moo&s;t redy waye vnto heuen / wher|of &s;aynt Paule &s;pake / &s;ayenge.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co&abrum;. xi</NOTE> Yet wyll I teche you (&s;ayth he) a more excelle~t / a more hygh / &amp; a more per|fyte waye. In whiche charite moche done they &abpro;fyte that for y^e loue of god / done de&s;py&s;e &amp; for&s;ake all thyn|ges y^t done appertayne vnto the worlde / &amp; that haue appetyte &amp; de&s;yre no thynge to retayn vnto them&s;elfe / but to haue all thynges in co~mune. They go y^e hygh and moo&s;t excellent waye / that tredynge vnder fote &amp; &s;etty~ge at nought all erthly thynges / be~ lyft vp bothe in &s;oule &amp; body / w^t hole de&s;yre of hert / vnto &s;pirituall &amp; heuenly thynges. Charite &s;tandeth in y^e loue of god / &amp; y^e neyghbour. And y^e loue of god is expre&s;&s;ed &amp; &s;hewed in thre thynges. One is / y^t all y^t is in man / be ryghtly &s;ubdued vnto the loue of god. For we ben co~mau~ded to loue god w^t all our herte / that is to &s;ay / y^t we referre &amp; apply all our thoughtes vnto hym. We mu&s;t loue hy~ al&s;o w^t all our mynde / that is to &s;aye / that we yelde &amp; apply vnto hy~ all our rea&s;on / wherby we vnder&s;ta~de &amp; di&s;cerne or iudge ony thynge. We ferthermore <ABBR>&s;hold</ABBR> loue hym w^t our &s;oule / that is / that all y^e affeccyons of the &s;oule / all the de&s;yres of the wyll / be euer directed / ordred / applyed / &amp; appoynted vnto hym. In y^e loue of the neyghbour / two thynges mu&s;t we kepe. Fyr&s;t y^t
<PB REF="74"> we do vnto no &abper;&s;one that thynge we wolde not were done vnto vs.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iob. iiij. Mat. vij.</NOTE> The &s;econd that we &s;hold do vnto other per&s;ones / that we do wyll &amp; de&s;yre they &s;hold do vnto vs. In the&s;e two vertues of neyghbourly loue / done &s;pry~ge &amp; growe all vertues / wherby we done coueyt all thynges that we may lawfully de&s;yre / or y^t we for+&s;ake all that of ryght we &s;hold auoyde &amp; e&s;chewe. For by the&s;e two poyntes or artycles / is the neyghbour ryghtly beloued / whan he is chery&s;&s;hed w^t our kynde benefytes / &amp; no thynge hurt by our malyce or euyll de+des. In all thynges therfore whiche we done v&s;e here for our tra~&s;ytory nede / we mu&s;t euer preferre charite. For what &s;o euer we do / &s;aye or thynke / mu&s;t euer be|holde &amp; regarde the charite of god / or of y^e neyghbour. So that in all our co~uer&s;acyon &amp; lyuyng the &s;omme &amp; full poynt of our entent / mu&s;t be grou~ded &amp; &s;et in cha|rite.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xxij</NOTE> For in the&s;e two co~mau~dementes hangeth all y^e lawe of god / &amp; the &s;ayenge of y^e prophetes. The texte. Con&s;eque~s ergo e&s;t / vt etia~ cu~ <ABBR>qs</ABBR> &s;uis filijs / aut ali|qua nece&s;&s;itate &abper;tine~tibus ad &s;e in mona&s;terio co~&s;titu|tis:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Extra de &s;ta|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">u monacho&abrum; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a. cu~ ad mo|na&s;terium. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">. &abpro;hibemus <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> fine.</NOTE> vel aliqua~ &abcon;tulerit ve&s;te~ / &s;iue quodlibet aliud inter nece&s;&s;aria deputandu~: no~ occulte <ABBR>accipiat.</ABBR> &s;ed &s;it in po|te&s;tate prepo&s;iti:<NOTE PLACE="marg">xij. q. j. no~ dicatis.</NOTE> vt in rem co~mune~ redactu~: cui nece&s;&s;e fuerit / <ABBR>prebeat.</ABBR> That is. It foloweth therfore as co~ue+nyent / that whan ony outward per&s;one gyueth vnto ony inward &amp; ordred per&s;one in y^e mona&s;tery / wheder they be~ theyr chyldre / kynne / frendes or acqueyntau~ce ony garment / or ony other thynge y^t may be deputed / appoynted or a&s;&s;igned amonge y^e co~mune nece&s;&s;aryes it be not priuely receyued / but y^t it be in y^e power &amp; wyl of the &s;ouerayne / that taken &amp; accou~ted as y^e co~mune good / it be gyuen or a&s;&s;ygned vnto them y^t haue nede
<PB N="lix" REF="74"> therof. Here may ye perceyue how &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne doth put &amp; ordre all thynges vnder obedience / &s;yth he wyll all be in the power of the &s;ouerayne.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> And ferther note ye well / that yf the di&s;ciples of this rule may not take vnto theyr v&s;e &s;uche thynges as by theyr fre~des ben ordeyned for them &amp; gyuen vnto them / except the &s;ame thy~ges be fyr&s;t reputed &amp; accou~ted as y^e co~mune goodes / &amp; &s;o by the &s;ouerayne to be appoynted. How may ony ob&s;eruau~tes of this rule &abpro;uyde for them&s;elfe by ony &s;typende or other meanes? I can not &s;e how. For all is here co~mune.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; It is not lawfull y^t ony thynge in the co~mune lyfe of religyous per&s;ones / be &s;ecretly or pryuely receyued nor ony thynge be kepte in &abpro;priete / but y^t it be &s;hewed (as it was receyued) vnto the &s;ouerayne / that by the &s;ouerayne it be a&s;&s;igned and myni&s;tred vnto &s;uche as haue nede therof. For &s;o may auarice be&s;t be de&s;troyed and all &s;u&abper;fluyte be&s;t be auoyded. So al&s;o is charite noury&s;&s;hed / &amp; holy pouerty be&s;t pre&s;erued. For whan there is no lycence ne lyberty to haue / retayne / &amp; kepe worldly thynges / y^e mynde is in maner co~pelled &amp; con+&s;trayned to reme~bre &amp; thynke vpon heuenly thynges. But notw^t&s;tandyng &s;ome &abper;&s;ones religyous ben &s;ore &amp; greuou&s;ly troubled / wha~ they may not receyue &amp; kepe &s;uche thynges as by theyr frendes ben gyuen them. For they loue gyftes &amp; tokens / and to haue &s;omwhat &s;ynguler by them&s;elfe as propriete. And oftentymes they ben &s;o enflambed by y^e de&s;yre of &s;mall thynges &amp; lytell worth / y^t by the occa&s;yon therof / they often trou|ble &amp; breke the co~corde &amp; re&s;t of theyr co~pany. And that (doubtles) is the very temptacyon &amp; &s;terynge of y^e de|uyll. For y^t crafty enemy the deuyll noteth well / &amp; mar+keth
<PB REF="75"> the di&s;po&s;icyon of euery per&s;one / &amp; the affeccions of the mynde / &amp; therafter he a&s;&s;ayleth &amp; tempteth the per&s;ones in that &s;ynne wherin he may moo&s;t lyghtly preuayle. For he careth not wheder y^e &s;ynne be moche or lytell / &s;o he may preuayle &amp; breke y^e charite &amp; vnite of the per&s;ones. Religyous per&s;ones mu&s;t therfore a|gayn&s;t the crafty enemy be very ware &amp; diligent / &amp; in euery mater &s;pye &amp; auoyde his &s;nares / and &s;pecyally trede downe / &amp; holde vnder fote all erthly and &s;eculer thynges / that w^t the p&s;almi&s;t they may &s;ynge &amp; &s;aye. Laqueus co~trit&abus; e&s;t:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s. cxxiij.</NOTE> &amp; nos liberati &s;umus. That is. The grenne or &s;nare is broken / and we ben delyuered out of dau~ger. But &s;ome &abper;&s;ones &s;lyppe &amp; fayle herin / &amp; therfore doth folowe in y^e lettre. Quod &s;i <ABBR>qs</ABBR> rem &s;ibi collata~ celauerit: furti iudicio <ABBR>&abcon;demnet.</ABBR> That is. And therfore / yf ony of you hyde or kepe preuy ony thynge that is gyuen vnto them / let them by y^e iudgement of thefte be co~dempned &amp; ca&s;t as theues. An harde iudge+ment to be condempned as a thefe / for y^t is in y^e worlde moo&s;t &s;hamefull / but for a certaynty this is true / that euery &s;ynne of lyke maner and degree / is moche more greuous in a religyous &abper;&s;one / than in ony &s;eculer per+&s;one. Yf than they ben &s;ynfull as theues / that pryuely done receyue y^t frely &amp; of charite is gyuen vnto them / what &s;ynne haue they y^t done v&s;e theyr felowes thyn|ges appoynted &amp; a&s;&s;igned vnto other per&s;ones? And a dete&s;table maner is in many places of relygyon / that (vpon the boldnes of this co~mune terme / all is ours) many wyl take vnto theyr owne v&s;e w^tout ony a&s;&s;igne+ment what they fynde / &amp; whan &s;ome of theyr felowes departe this lyfe / they wyll play catche y^t catche may And &s;ome other wyll fynde thynges whan they ben
<PB N="lx" REF="75"> lo&s;t / or rather &s;omtyme before they be lo&s;t / &amp; tho&s;e thy~|ges they done apply vnto theyr owne v&s;e: truly all &s;u|che ben dampnable &amp; proprietaryes. For no per&s;one in religyon may v&s;e ony thynge but y^t is delyuered / a&s;&s;i|gned / or appoynted vnto them / excepte extreme nede / or vnfeyned chaunce: where interpretated &amp; &s;uppo&s;ed lycence doth di&s;charge co~&s;cyence for the tyme / &s;o euer they be in mynde to &s;hewe it vnto y^e &s;ouerayn as &s;oone as co~uenyently they may / &amp; to &s;ubmytte them&s;elfe ho+ly vnto the wyll &amp; di&s;crecyon of y^e &s;ouerayn. Yf than a religyous per&s;one be as a thefe / that doth pryuely re|ceyue y^t is prouyded / how may y^e religyous per&s;ones by ony rea&s;on &abpro;uyde priuately for them&s;elfe? I wote not how &s;urely. But here now</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The apo&s;tle &s;ayth / that theues and robbers &s;hall haue no po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon in y^e kyngdom of heuen.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co. vj.</NOTE> For thefte is a criminall &s;ynne / &amp; contrary vnto y^e co~mau~demen|tes of god / where is wryten.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xix</NOTE> Thou &s;halte do none ad|uoutry / thou &s;halt do no thefte. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> bycau&s;e therfore y^t thefte is amonge the grete princypall &s;ynnes / it &s;hall be iudged &amp; puny&s;&s;hed after the lawe / as aduoutry &amp; homicyde or ma~&s;laughter. The religyous <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;one ther|fore that hath appetyte to kepe and holde <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ely ony thynge y^t is gyuen / doth in holy chirche kepe the rome &amp; place of Iudas y^e traytour / that was a thefe. For he bare the pur&s;e / &amp; what was delyuered vnto hym he put therin / &amp; euer &s;tale parte for his owne propre v&s;e &amp; plea&s;ure. And &s;o moche was he therby enflambed in the vyce of couety&s;e / that by the la&s;t (as the deuyll put hym in mynde) he betrayed &amp; &s;olde his lord &amp; may&s;ter But &s;e what came therof. In &s;ekynge and de&s;yrynge lucre &amp; vnlawfull gaynes / he fou~de deth / for he han|ged
<PB REF="76"> hym&s;elfe as &s;cripture &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. xxvij. Prou. xxj</NOTE> Whyle he thur&s;ted &amp; coueyted lucre / he came vnto the rope. Suche is the fruyte of auaryce &amp; of the couety&s;e mynde. Religyous per&s;ones &s;holde moche therfore be ware they coueyte no lucre / flee &amp; auoyde the appetyte therof / le&s;t they be tempted &amp; moued to hyde or kepe ony thynge preuy / &amp; &s;o (by the per&s;ua&s;yon of the deuyll) they fall vnto that greuous &amp; dete&s;table &s;ynne of propriete. And ferther by the iu&s;tyce of our lorde god / vnto the iudgement of euerla&s;tynge dampnacyon.</P>
<TRAILER>&para; Valete.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para; The &s;yxth chapytre of the rule.</HEAD>
<P>_INdumenta ve&s;tra <ABBR>&s;cdm</ABBR> arbitriu~ prepo&s;iti lauentur / &s;iue a vobis &s;iue a fullonibus: ne interioris anime &s;ordes / contrahat munde ve&s;tis nimius appetit&abus;. That is. Let your clothes be wa&s;&s;hen at the a&s;&s;ignement &amp; wyll of your &s;ouerayne / &amp; not at your owne plea&s;ure. And y^t whe|der they ben wa&s;&s;hen by your &s;elfe / or by ony other &abper;|&s;ones. The cau&s;e why is / le&s;t ony &s;u&abper;fluous or vayne appetyte of clene &amp; fayre clothes &s;holde make foule or fylthy your inwarde &s;oules.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> Note well y^t all this ordy+nau~ce (as appereth playne by y^e &s;entence) is &s;ubdued vnto obedience. And al&s;o y^t &s;yth no per&s;one relygyous may wa&s;&s;he theyr owne clothes / ne &abpro;cure them to be wa&s;&s;hed / but at the a&s;&s;ignement &amp; appoyntment of y^e &s;ouerayne / how &s;holde y^t per&s;one w^tout &s;uche appoynt|ment prouyde them&s;elfe for ony newe clothes? And yf the appetyte of clene &amp; clenly clothes may defoule the &s;oule / what wolde you than &s;uppo&s;e of fyne clothes / pynched &amp; pre&s;&s;ed / made of y^e newe fa&s;hon / &amp; wanton|ly worne al&s;o? Ye may well &s;aye / they done not onely
<PB N="lxj" REF="76"> defoule / but al&s;o defourme / &amp; put y^e &s;ely &s;oule clene out of all godly fa&s;hon.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Wherfore dyd &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn co~maunde that the clothes of religyous per&s;ones &s;holde be wa&s;&s;hed after the arbitrement &amp; di&s;crecyon of the &s;ouerayn / &amp; not at the plea&s;ure of y^e &s;ubiecte? The cau&s;e he &s;hewed hym &s;elfe / le&s;t the religyous per&s;one &s;holde blemy&s;&s;he &amp; de|foule his &s;oule / by ouer moche appetyte &amp; de&s;yre vnto clene clothes. For the more ony religyous &abper;&s;ones ben garny&s;&s;hed &amp; apparayled outwarde vnto vaynglory / the more ben they inwarde polluted &amp; defouled. The &s;oueraynes therfore mu&s;t take hede y^t theyr &s;ubiectes do not offende by gay clothyng or pyked aray. For (I tell you) it is not gay clothynge / but good maners / y^t dothe garny&s;&s;he &amp; adourne the religyous &abper;&s;one. The apo&s;tle therof warneth vs / &s;ayenge.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom~. xij.</NOTE> Nolite &abcon;forma|ri huic &s;eculo. Be not you in wyll (&s;ayth he) to be lyke vnto worldly per&s;ones / but rather to be refourmed &amp; garny&s;&s;hed w^t the newe clenly garment of &s;pirytuall vnder&s;ta~dynge. For tho&s;e &abper;&s;ones y^t haue appetyte vn|to y^e newe fa&s;hons &amp; maners of the worlde / haue lytell care for the due fourme &amp; fa&s;hon of theyr &s;oules. For y^e more outwarde beauty is beloued / the le&s;&s;e is inward beauty de&s;yred. The beauty y^t our lord requireth of re|ligyous per&s;ones / he doth hym&s;elfe expre&s;&s;e.<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. j.</NOTE> Laua|mini / mu~di e&s;tote. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> Wa&s;&s;he your &s;elf (&s;ayth he) and be you clene / that is / put away the euyll &amp; corrupt co|gitacyons of your hertes (&s;ayth he) out of my &s;yght. For our &s;auyour &s;ayd not in y^e go&s;pell.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. v.</NOTE> Ble&s;&s;ed be they that ben clenly in theyr bodyes / but that haue a clene herte / a clene con&s;cyence. For they (&s;ayth he) &s;hall &s;e al myghty god. Notw^t&s;tandynge / le&s;t perauenture &s;ome
<PB REF="77"> &s;crupulous per&s;ones wolde thynke hereby / the body &s;holde no thynge be cured ne &s;et by / he put to more / as foloweth in y^e lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ta habet <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">iginale. Lauacrum <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ia~ corporu~ &s;u&s;&abque; balne|ru~: no~ &s;it a&s;&s;i uus: &s;ed eo uo &s;olet int&aber;|allo te~poris <ABBR>ribuat.</ABBR> hoc &s;t. &s;emel in <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">e~&s;e. Cuius ute~ infirmi|a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> nece&s;&s;itas <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ogit laua~du~ orp&abus;: no~ lon|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">uis <ABBR>differat</ABBR> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">at &s;ine mur+<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ure de co~&s;i|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">o medici <ABBR>&amp;c</ABBR>.</NOTE> Lauacru~ etia~ corporis / cu~ infir|mitatis nece&s;&s;itas cogit: minime denegetur. Fiat &s;ine murmure / de con&s;ilio medicine / ita etia~: vt &s;i nolit / iu|bente &abpre;po&s;ito: faciat <ABBR>qd</ABBR> faciendu~ e&s;t &abpro; &s;alute. Si aute~ velit / et forte no~ expedit: &s;ue cupiditati non obediatur. That is. Baynes al&s;o for y^e body whan nede is / vnto the &s;eke &abper;&s;ones &s;hall not be denyed / let it be done w^tout grudge / &amp; by the coun&s;eyle of phy&s;yke / &amp; that w^t &s;uche effecte &amp; diligence / that all though the &s;eke wolde not therof / yet &s;hall they (whan y^e &s;ouerayne co~mau~deth) do for theyr helth y^t is to be done. And yf y^e &s;eke wolde de&s;yre to be bayned / &amp; y^t bayne perauenture for y^t tyme be not expedient / let not theyr mynde &amp; wylfull de&s;yre be folowed therin. Saynt Augu&s;tyn wolde that all y^e di&s;cyples of this rule &s;hold be hone&s;t / &amp; haue all thyn|ges nedeful / &amp; therfore theyr clothes &s;hold be wa&s;&s;hed by good di&s;crecyon. And we therfore haue a &s;tatute a|monge vs / that euery per&s;one &s;hall put theyr clothes to wa&s;&s;hynge at the co~mune tyme appoynted / as be|cometh the hone&s;ty of religyon / &amp; &s;o they &s;hall not for &s;louthfulnes / ne yet for &abper;feccion be vnhone&s;t. And they &s;hall wa&s;&s;he theyr bodyes / not for plea&s;ure / but as ne|de requireth / &amp; that (as ye may &s;e in the lettre) by obe|dience / lady &amp; may&s;tres of this rule. For the &s;ubiecte hath here no wyll. For wha~ he wolde not / he &s;hall not cho&s;e / &amp; whan he wolde / he &s;hall not / all is mere obe|dience.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; This lettre before moche accordeth w^t the doctryne of &s;aynt Paule / that dothe &abpro;hibyte &amp; forbede cure of y^e body for plea&s;ure / but not for nede.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom~. xiij.</NOTE> For there is grete
<PB N="lxij" REF="77"> difference bytwene plea&s;ure &amp; nede. For nede is profy+table / &amp; plea&s;ure is vycyous. But &s;ome &abper;&s;ones ben &s;o &s;u&abper;&s;ticyous &amp; &s;o precy&s;e / y^t they &s;aye / a religyous per|&s;one &s;holde loke for no medycyne for y^e body / but all for the &s;oule. A grete &abpre;&s;umpcyon &amp; foly &s;o to attempte our lorde. For yf they loke well / they &s;hall fynde that mete drynke &amp; clothynge ben all but medycyne / &amp; &s;o ben all erthly thynges that we v&s;e for y^e nede of the body. Let it be done than w^tout grudge / &amp; by cou~&s;eyle. And that terme al&s;o is well added / that y^e &s;ubiecte not wyllyng &s;hall be con&s;trayned / &amp; wyllynge &s;hall be denyed. For nede &amp; not plea&s;ure mu&s;t be obeyed / and the cau&s;e fo|loweth in the lettre folowynge. Aliquando &s;i noceat prode&s;&s;e creditur <ABBR>qd</ABBR> delectat. That is. For &s;omtyme y^t thynge that delyteth &amp; plea&s;eth / is thought &amp; &s;uppo|&s;ed profytable / all though in dede it do moche hurte / &amp; noy the per&s;one. Whan &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn co~maunded that the &s;ubiecte not wyllynge / &s;holde folowe the co~|mau~dement of y^e &s;ouerayne / he rendred no cau&s;e why. For he wolde that obedience &s;holde onely be the cau&s;e. But whan he had co~mau~ded that y^e &s;ubiecte dy&s;ea&s;ed or &s;eke / &s;hold not haue his peticyon / he &s;hewed a cau&s;e For the &s;eke wyll ofte de&s;yre that is not expedyent / ne good for theyr &s;ekenes: &s;uche is y^e infyrmite of man.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Se / take hede / why y^e appetyte &amp; de&s;yre of the per|&s;one &s;hold not be folowed ne &s;erued. Bycau&s;e many by theyr appetyte ben deceyued / whyle they byleue that thynge wolde do them good / that wold rather moche hurte them. So doth frayle appetyte deceyue all per|&s;ones / &amp; maketh that thynge to appere good / that is euyll &amp; moche peryllous. And therfore holy &s;cripture
<PB REF="78"> prohybyteth &amp; forbedeth carnall appetytes &amp; delecta|cyons / bycau&s;e they brynge the per&s;ones to deth / er or before that they ben ware therof. An other expo&s;icyon of the &s;ame auctour.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> The &s;ame lettre. That thynge y^t delyteth / doth &s;eme &s;o &abpro;fyte / whan oftentymes it ra|ther moche noyeth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gala. v.</NOTE> We mu&s;t (after y^e holy cou~&s;eyle of &s;aynt Paule) ab&s;tayne from carnall de&s;yres / whiche done kepe open warre agayn&s;t the &s;oule. For y^e fle&s;&s;he hath euer co~trary appetyte vnto the &s;piryte. But we mu&s;t therfore by the di&s;ciplyne of the &s;piryte / repre&s;&s;e &amp; kepe vnder the co~cupy&s;cence of y^e fle&s;&s;he. Notw^t&s;tan|dynge / &s;ome &abper;&s;ones done offende on eyther parte. For &s;ome beyonde due me&s;ure done folowe the rygour of y^e &s;piryte / &s;ome other contrary / that done folowe y^e plea+&s;ure &amp; appetyte of the fle&s;&s;he / &amp; &s;o (I &s;aye) they bothe halte. For the one party of &s;pirytuall &abper;&s;ones / by y^e ap|petyte of y^e lyfe &s;pirituall / done ouer moche &amp; beyonde me&s;ure puny&s;&s;he y^e fle&s;&s;he. For yf vertue want di&s;cre|cyon &amp; due me&s;ure / it is rather vyce than vertue. The other party of carnall per&s;ones / whyle they &s;et theyr mynde / &s;tudy &amp; de&s;yre to folowe carnall plea&s;ure / they renne very depe vnto the ieoperdy / or rather vnto the vtter perdicyon &amp; lo&s;&s;e of the &s;oule. A due me&s;ure ther+fore mu&s;t be ordeyned / &s;o y^t &s;uche per&s;ones in religyon as wolde no thynge care for y^e body / &s;hall be con&s;tray|ned by obedience to do / that for theyr bodyly helth is to be done. And the other y^t haue vayne appetyte &amp; to mo+che fauour vnto the body / &s;hall be re&s;trayned. For the helth of the body mu&s;t alway be pre&s;erued vnto y^e &s;er|uyce of god / &amp; vnto y^e duty of religyon / &amp; the appetyte of y^e fle&s;&s;he mu&s;t be hold vnder &amp; que~ched. This &s;pake &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn of open &amp; knowen infirmytees / now
<PB N="lxiij" REF="78"> he &s;peketh ferther of preuy di&s;ea&s;e / &s;ayenge. Deni&abque; &s;i lateus e&s;t dolor in corpore: famulo dei dicenti <ABBR>qd</ABBR> &s;ibi doleat: &s;ine dubitatione credatur. That is. But notw^t|&s;tandynge / yf the di&s;ea&s;e be in the body preuy and vn|knowen / whan the &s;eruauntes of god done &s;aye they ben &s;eke / let them w^tout ony doubte or my&s;tru&s;t be by|leued. In the naturall body / whan the fote aketh / the hande knoweth therof / &amp; wyl helpe y^t he can / &amp; &s;o of all other membres. But in the &s;pirytuall body / one mem+bre can not knowe y^e grefe of an other / but by credence. And the relygyous &abper;&s;ones therfore &s;holde be of &s;uche perfeccyon / that y^e &s;ubiectes myght be byleued / &amp; the &s;ouerayne haue co~pa&s;&s;yon.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The &s;ouerayn mu&s;t of right byleue tho&s;e &s;ubiectes whome he knoweth of good lyf / religyous maners / &amp; holy co~uer&s;acyon. For y^e trouth or fal&s;hede of ony &abper;&s;one is not knowen by the &s;peche of y^e mouth / but by theyr werkes &amp; dedes. Ex fructibus co&abrum; cogno&s;cetis eos.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. vi</NOTE> &s;ayth our &s;auyour. Of theyr fruytes &amp; werkes / may ye knowe euery per&s;one. The very religyous &abper;&s;ones ben not deceytfull / ben not feyners / ben not double of theyr wordes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. xj.</NOTE> Nor (as the p&s;almi&s;t &s;ayth) of them y^t by theyr herte / of purpo&s;e / &amp; in theyr hertes by know|lege done &s;peke tho&s;e thynges y^t ben fal&s;e and not true But y^e &s;eruau~tes of god done &s;peke w^t the mouth / y^t is thought in y^e herte. And good lyfe doth cau&s;e credence &amp; fayth to be gyuen vnto theyr wordes. And contrary the euyll lyfe &amp; vnrelygyous behauyour / cau&s;eth the trouth to be doubted. Let them therfore w^tout doubte be byleued / that w^tout doubte ben good &amp; vertuous.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; An other expo&s;icyon of the &s;ame auctour vpon the &s;ame &s;entence.</HEAD>
<PB REF="79">
<P>&para; The very true &s;eruau~t of god is euer afrayde to of|fende god / &amp; that not onely in werke &amp; dede / but al&s;o in worde &amp; thought. The &s;eruau~t of god doth take good hede vnto all his wayes &amp; maners / &amp; &s;pecially that he neuer offende in his tongue. Religyous &abper;&s;ones &s;holde alway &s;hewe them&s;elfe &s;uche in co~uer&s;acyon / y^t they myght be byleued. For good lyfe &s;holde co~mend theyr wordes / &amp; good werkes &s;holde bere them wytnes of trouth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioha~. x.</NOTE> Our &s;auyour &s;ayd. Si mihi no~ creditis / ope|ribus credite. All though (&s;ayd he) ye byleue not me / yet byleue my werkes / for my werkes done bere me wytnes. Many per&s;ones ben not byleued / all though they &s;ay trouth. And why &s;o? For eyther they be~ euyll them &s;elfe / or at the le&s;t they ben &s;u&s;pecte of euyll / but whan the lyfe of ony &abper;&s;one is w^tout &s;u&s;picyon &s;uppo|&s;ed &amp; holden good / tho&s;e &abper;&s;ones ben forthw^t byleued w^t+out ony doubte. The le&s;&s;e vertue &amp; goodnes y^t doth ap|pere in the &abper;&s;ones / the le&s;&s;e ben they byleued. And the more religyous they ben / the more fayth &amp; byleue is gyuen vnto theyr wordes. And bycau&s;e therfore the fraylty of man is &s;uche / y^t in &s;ekenes they de&s;yre &s;om|tyme y^t is noyous / there foloweth in y^e lettre. Sed ta|men vtru~ dolori illi &s;anando <ABBR>qd</ABBR> delectat expediat: &s;i no~ e&s;t certu~ / medicus &abcon;&s;ulatur. That is. But yet / yf ye be not in certaynte wheder y^t thynge the &s;eke de&s;yreth &amp; delyteth / be for y^t di&s;ea&s;e &amp; for y^e cure therof expedyent / let cou~&s;eyle be axed of the phi&s;ycyen. By this lettre / &amp; by y^e &s;ayd expo&s;icyon of &s;aynt Hugh / ye may perceyue that euery per&s;one in religyon is not to be alway byle+ued whan they co~playne of di&s;ea&s;e. For &s;ome of &s;mall con&s;cyence / to take theyr ea&s;e &amp; plea&s;ure / wyll &s;ay (for a lytell occa&s;yon) they ben &s;eke &amp; di&s;ea&s;ed. The dayly
<PB N="lxiiij" REF="79"> co~uer&s;acyon therfore of the &abper;&s;one / in kepynge reguler ob&s;eruau~ces / &amp; all dutyes after y^e &s;tatutes / mu&s;t gyue &amp; engendre credence / &amp; not y^e co~playnt ne wordes: &amp; the phi&s;icyon mu&s;t tha~ be iudge. Here al&s;o ye may &s;e that (contrary vnto y^e opinyon of many &s;u&abper;&s;ticyous myn|des) phi&s;yke is &s;omtyme nece&s;&s;ary. For arte or crafte helpeth nature. And holy &s;cripture co~me~deth phi&s;yke Honora medicu~.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Eccli.</ABBR> xxviij.</NOTE> <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> Do you honour (&s;ayth the wy&s;e man) vnto y^e phi&s;icyon / for he may conforte you / &amp; our lorde god hym&s;elfe hath create and made medycyne / wha~ very vnfeyned nede requireth. Phi&s;yke is good / but to be curyous &amp; be&s;y therin / is no thy~ge religyous nor yet &abpro;fytable. Herken now</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; All though y^e &s;oueraynes do byleue the complaynt of the &s;eke &s;ubiectes / yet may they not anone leyne &amp; grau~t vnto theyr de&s;yres &amp; appetytes. For vnlawfull de&s;yres done oftentymes a&s;&s;ayle &amp; tempt y^e &s;eruau~tes of god. Therfore yf ye be not &s;ure / let the phi&s;ycyon be axed / let hym iudge &amp; make certayn / that before was vncertayne. And let no per&s;one meruayle y^t religyous &abper;&s;ones &s;hold axe the cou~&s;eyle of phi&s;yke / &s;yth we may take of &s;cripture y^t &s;aynt Paule v&s;ed &amp; gaue coun&s;eyle of phi&s;yke.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Tim~. v.</NOTE> Modico vino vtere / propter &s;tomachu~ <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> V&s;e (&s;ayth he vnto his di&s;ciple Timothey) a lytel wy+ne / for thy &s;tomacke / &amp; for thy many &amp; be&s;y dy&s;ea&s;es. So the di&s;crete may&s;ter tempered y^e rygour of ab&s;ty|nence / &amp; ordred his di&s;cyple y^t his di&s;ea&s;es &amp; pa&s;&s;yons &s;holde not let nor hyndre his holy prechynge &amp; better dedes. For all though it were good for his di&s;cyple to rendre of his infirmytees the fruyte of pacience / yet y^e apo&s;tle perceyued it was more &abpro;fytable to take medi|cyne / &amp; &s;o to be able to do &s;uche werkes as might pro|fyte
<PB REF="80"> other &s;oules. Let religyous &abper;&s;ones therfore co~for+ted by this auctorite take bodyly medicyne (wha~ nede is) that they therby may be y^e more able to &s;erue god &amp; do theyr duty.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">aln<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">.</NOTE> The lettre. Ne&abque; eant ad balnea / &s;iue quocu~&abque; ire nece&s;&s;e fuerit:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">minus &abquam; <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">res.</NOTE> min&abus; &abquam; duo vel tres / nec ille qui habet aliqua~ eu~di nece&s;&s;itate~: cu~ <ABBR>qbus</ABBR> ip&s;e volue|rit: &s;ed cu~ <ABBR>qbus</ABBR> prepo&s;itus iu&s;&s;erit / ire debet. That is. And whan &s;o euer they go vnto the bayne / or wheder &s;o euer they nede to go / let them be no le&s;&s;e in nombre than twayne or thre per&s;ones: nor yet tho&s;e &abper;&s;ones y^t hath nede to go forth / &s;hall go w^t whome they wolde / but they &s;hall go w^t &s;uche as the &s;ouerayne wyll com|mau~de or appoynt. Here ye may perceyue he ordreth al thynges vnto obedience. And here al&s;o doth appere that I &s;pake of before / that is to &s;ay / for what cau&s;e y^e di&s;ciples of this rule may go forth abrode out of theyr mona&s;tery. The cau&s;e is &s;et forth in y^e lettre. For very nece&s;&s;ite &amp; nede vnfeyned. And els may they neuer go forth. The nede (I &s;hewed you) is bodyly nede: ergo for nede of the &s;oule they may the rather go forth / but neuer alone / bycau&s;e of te&s;timony of theyr guydyng &amp; behauyour / whyle they ben forth / nor yet w^t whome they wyll / to exclude all &s;u&s;picyon and affeccyon / but with whome the &s;ouerayn co~mau~deth / to ordre them euer vnto obedience. Take hede now vnto your</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">ij. Co. viij</NOTE>&para; Let vs prouyde (&s;ayth the apo&s;tle Paule) that all thynges be well / not onely before god / but al&s;o before the worlde. It &s;uffy&s;eth vnto religyous per&s;ones (as for them&s;elfe) that they haue a good con&s;cience / but it is nece&s;&s;ary for y^e worlde / y^t religyous per&s;ones haue a good name &amp; fame / &amp; that in no wy&s;e theyr name be
<PB N="lxv" REF="80"> defouled ne blemy&s;&s;hed.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ierony.</NOTE> For yf ony per&s;ones tru&s;tyng vpon good con&s;cyence / be negligent of theyr name and fame / they ben cruell / moche more than religyous per+&s;ones y^t &s;holde be fourme &amp; example of good lyfe vnto all other &abper;&s;ones. So the apo&s;tle Paule wryteth vnto his di&s;ciple / &s;ayenge.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tim~. ij.</NOTE> Make thy &s;elfe &s;pecyall example of all good werkes vnto all per&s;ones / &amp; we ben (&s;ayth he agayn) vnto the worlde au~gels &amp; men / a &s;pectable vpon whome they loke &amp; beholde / &amp; vnto whome they take hede. So ben all religyous &abper;&s;ones. And therfore tho&s;e y^t done loue religyon / done &s;eke &amp; &s;pye out what thynges they pray&s;e in the per&s;ones religyous. And tho&s;e y^t hate them / done detracte / backbyte / &amp; &s;clau~dre them. Wherfore religyous &abper;&s;ones &s;holde euer behaue them&s;elfe in a due meane / &amp; &s;o kepe bothe theyr lyfe &amp; fame / that theyr backbyters may rather be aba&s;&s;hed of theyr owne euyll &s;ayenge / than theyr pray&s;ers be aba&s;&s;hed of theyr pray&s;ynge / bycau&s;e of theyr lyfe &amp; werkes. For the pray&s;er is euer aba&s;&s;hed / yf y^e thynge he &s;ayd be proued fal&s;e: &amp; &s;o is al&s;o y^e di&s;pray&s;er. They mu&s;t therfore goo twayne togyder or thre / bothe for theyr owne &s;olace &amp; conforte / &amp; al&s;o for y^e te&s;tymony &amp; wytnes of good lyfe and religyous behauyour. The wy&s;e man &s;ayth. Ve &s;oli.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Eccls.</ABBR> iii</NOTE> Woo &amp; my&s;ery is vnto the per&s;one y^t gothe alone. For yf he fall or &s;lyppe / he hath no helper. Yf than there ben twayne / they may eche helpe other. That &s;ayenge of y^e lettre is notable / whe|re is &s;ayd. The &abper;&s;one that nedeth to go forth / &s;hall not go w^t whome he wyll / but w^t whome y^e &s;ouerayne co~|mau~deth. For &s;o by the &s;ouerayne / the &s;urety of y^e per|&s;one &s;hal be prouyded fore / &amp; in the &s;ubiecte the vertue of due obedience &s;hall be ob&s;erued &amp; kepte. The lettre.
<PB REF="81"> Egrotantiu~ cura / &s;iue po&s;t egritudine~ reficiendoru~ / &s;iue aliqua imbecillitate / etia~ &s;iue febribus labora~tiu~: vni alicui debet iniu~gi. Vt ip&s;e de cellario petat / quod cui&abque; opus &abper;&s;pexerit. That is. The cure &amp; kepynge of the &s;eke &abper;&s;ones / wheder it be for theyr recouery after theyr &s;ekenes / or by ony feblenes &amp; weykenes / or al&s;o of them that ben in feuers / axes &amp; other di&s;ea&s;es / &s;hall be co~mytted &amp; a&s;&s;igned vnto one certayn per&s;one / that &s;hall axe of the celary what he perceyueth nece&s;&s;ary &amp; nedefull vnto euery &s;eke per&s;one. Here ye may &abper;ceyue that &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn in ordrynge the di&s;ciples of this rule vnto vnite &amp; peas vnder due obedience / he ordreth euery &abper;&s;one vnto other: &amp; where he had before ordey|ned for y^e cure of the &s;eke per&s;ones by batthes or medi+cynes / he now ordreth &amp; prouydeth for theyr fedyng &amp; kepynge. Now here.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The offycer of y^e firmary is called co~munly the fir|marer / or firmary&s;&s;e / whiche mu&s;t be a per&s;one y^t dre|deth god / &amp; that is charitable / &amp; that wyll w^t all dily|gence prouyde for all thynges y^t may be conforte vnto the &s;eke / &amp; &s;o myny&s;tre &amp; do &s;eruyce vnto the &s;eke / as though he myny&s;tred &amp; dyd &s;eruyce vnto our lord and &s;auyour Ie&s;u Chry&s;t. For in y^e daye of la&s;t iudgement he wyll openly &s;aye.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xxv</NOTE> I was &s;eke / &amp; you dyd vy&s;yte &amp; conforte me. For what &s;eruyce &s;o euer ye dyd vnto ony of y^e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ee&s;t of myne for my &s;ake / that &s;eruyce ye dyd vn|to me. The &s;tronge &amp; hole &abper;&s;ones &s;holde therfore bere with due pacyence y^e feblenes of y^e &s;eke per&s;ones. For &s;o is godly charite kepte and fulfylled. Saynt Paule &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gala. vj.</NOTE> Alter alterius onera portate: et &s;ic adimplebi|tis lege~ Chri&s;ti. Bere you eche the burthen of other / &amp; &s;o &s;hal ye fulfyll y^e lawe of Chry&s;t. The lawe of Chry&s;t
<PB N="lxvj" REF="81"> is loue. The lawe and offyce of loue / is one to helpe an other in all nede. And dyuers tymes / dyuers infirmy+tees done cau&s;e vs eche to bere w^t other / &amp; eche to helpe other at nede. For no thy~ge &s;o &abpro;ueth a faythful frende as doth helpe at nede. In nece&s;&s;itate <ABBR>&abpro;bat</ABBR> amicus.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Eccli.</ABBR> vj.</NOTE> A frende (&s;ayth the wy&s;e man) is proued at nede / or in nede. The &abper;&s;ones al&s;o y^t ben &s;eke / &s;holde wey &amp; remem+bre y^t &s;eruyce is done vnto them in the &abper;&s;one of Chry&s;t &amp; for his &s;ake / &amp; therfore they &s;holde haue them&s;elfe in a good awayte / that neyther by theyr owne my&s;guy|dynge they hyndre theyr helth: nor yet by theyr impa+cyence &amp; importunite they greue or be troublous vnto theyr &s;cruytours &amp; kepers. Let them therfore thanke hertely almyghty god of his vi&s;ytacyon / &amp; no thynge grudge therwith / le&s;t perauenture the &s;ekenes y^t was &s;ent them for the purgacyon &amp; clen&s;ynge of theyr &s;ou|les / be turned vnto the augment &amp; multiplycacyon of theyr &s;ynnes &amp; paynes. The lettre. Siue au~t qui cel|lario / &s;iue qui ve&s;tib&abus; / &s;iue q^i codicib&abus; preponu~tur: &s;iue murmure &s;eruiant fratribus &s;uis. That is. And who &s;o euer be officers / eyther of the celary / or of y^e chambe+ry / or els of y^e library / w^t &s;uche other offycers / let them &s;erue theyr felowes w^tout murmure or grudge. Here &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn dothe ordre y^e offycers vnto y^e couent / and &s;o euer as vnite / peace &amp; charite may be&s;t be nou|ry&s;&s;hed.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> Here ye may al&s;o note y^t the officers be not &s;o|ueraynes / ne yet may&s;ters of y^t they miny&s;tre / but &s;er+uau~tes. He is than a fole y^t grudgeth to gyue an other mannes goodes / &amp; he a more fole y^t grudgeth to paye his may&s;ters dettes of his owne may&s;ters goodes / &amp; by his wyll &amp; co~maundement. So ben the religyous officers more than foles of all foles that done grudge
<PB REF="82"> to &s;erue theyr felowes after the wyll &amp; co~mau~dement of the &s;ouerayne. Some officers wolde fayne appere good hou&s;bandes / &amp; by the pretence of &s;parynge / they wyll be &s;oueraynes them&s;elfe / &amp; in very dede to flater theyr &s;ouerayns / they wyl robbe Peter to clothe Pau+le / take fro~ one of theyr felowes for a grudge / &amp; with|drawe y^t is nedefull / &amp; gyue vnto an other for foly&s;&s;he affeccyon y^t is &s;u&abper;fluous &amp; more than ynough. Ther|fore &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn wyl they &s;erue equally without grudge.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Let the officers &s;o behaue them&s;elfe vnto theyr fe|lowes / y^t neyther they offende in grudgynge of theyr offyce / ne yet cau&s;e theyr felowes to grudge agayn&s;t them for lacke of gentyll wordes / or charytable be|hauyour. For murmure and grudge is a grete offence anen&s;t almighty god. Saynt Gregory &s;ayth. No per+&s;one that doth murmure or grudge / &s;hal euer receyue the kyngdome of heuen. And who &s;o euer haue ones receyued y^e kyngdome of heuen / &s;hall neuer after mur+mure ne grudge.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Eccli.</ABBR> xxxviij</NOTE> Salomon &s;ayth. Precordia fatui / qua&s;i rota carri. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> The &s;tomacke of y^e frowarde fole is lyke vnto y^e whele of a carte that bereth a grete lode of hey / &amp; euer murmureth &amp; whyneth or wheketh as he goth. So done &s;uche per&s;ones in religyon that ben carnall &amp; nere vnto them &s;elfe. For all though they do theyr duty / yet euer they grudge agayn&s;t &s;omwhat / &amp; ben neuer content.<NOTE PLACE="marg">ij. Co. x.</NOTE> The apo&s;tle cou~&s;eyled his di&s;cy|ples they &s;holde not grudge as y^e childer of I&s;rael dyd that were &s;layne by &s;erpentes. And why by &s;erpentes were they &s;layne? bycau&s;e that murmure &amp; grudge is a venymous &s;erpe~t. And who &s;o euer done murmure &amp; grudge / haue the venym of the deuyll vnder y^e rotes
<PB N="lxvij" REF="82"> of theyr tongues. For the holy apo&s;tle &s;aynt Iames &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iaco. iij.</NOTE> Lingua inquietu~ malu~ / plena veneno morti|fero. A grudgynge tongue (&s;ayth he) is an vnre&s;tfull my&s;chefe / full of deedly venym. Let all religyous per|&s;ones therfore beware of all murmure &amp; grudgynge that they pery&s;&s;he not by y^e deedly venym or poy&s;on of the deuyll. The lettre. Codices / certa &s;ingulis dieb&abus; <ABBR>petant</ABBR> hora: extra hora~ qui petierit / no~ accipiat. That is. Let bokes be axed euery daye at a certayne houre. For who &s;o be&s;yde the due houre dothe ony axe / &s;hall none receyue. All though &s;ay~t Augu&s;tyn dyd ordeyne the offycers to &s;erue the couent w^t all dilygence &amp; cha|rite (For y^t is w^tout grudge) Yet wold he y^t all &s;holde be done w^t good rea&s;on &amp; due maner. He begynneth fyr&s;t with the offyce of the library &amp; bokes / whiche y^t tyme were of grete pryce / &amp; therfore very &s;carce &amp; rare. Yet wolde he y^t of tho&s;e bokes y^t were to be had / none &s;hold be denyed / &s;o they were axed at the tyme appoynted / as is in dyuers libraryes in bothe the vniuer&s;ytees / &amp; al&s;o in London / y^t from .viij. of the clocke vnto .x. or .xj. or other lyke tymes / the libraryes be at lyberty open / but in other tymes not &s;o.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> Note here y^t &s;ay~t Augu&s;tyn dyd not begyn w^t the backe / ne yet with y^e bely / that is to &s;aye / neyther w^t clothynge ne fode moo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary for y^e body / but he began w^t bokes / wherin is co~teyned the fode &amp; clothyng of the &s;oule. And this clau&s;e of the rule condempneth the &s;oueraynes &amp; &s;uperyours that done kepe from y^e yongers &s;uche bokes as myght pro+fyte theyr &s;oules / &s;pecyally theyr owne rules &amp; con&s;ti|tucyons / whervnto they do &abpro;fe&s;&s;e &amp; bynde them&s;elfe: and yet &s;hall they neuer &s;e them / here them / ne knowe them of many yeres after theyr profe&s;&s;yon / and &s;ome
<PB REF="83"> neuer / alas what iu&s;tice / what rea&s;on is therin? none at all. But here</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Before in this &s;ame rule &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn co~maun+ded the di&s;cyples of this rule / they &s;holde apply them &s;elfe in&s;tau~tly vnto y^e &s;eruyce of god &amp; vnto prayer / at the due houres &amp; tymes appoynted thervnto. And ly|kewy&s;e wold he in all other &s;tudy &amp; labours. So that the tyme &s;holde rea&s;onably be dyuyded &amp; appoynted / whan they &s;ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">de &s;erue god &amp; praye / and whan they &s;holde &s;tudy / rede &amp; labour. Of the labour he &s;pake be|fore / where he co~mau~ded that no &abper;&s;one &s;holde labour for &s;ynguler profyte or plea&s;ure / but all for y^e co~mune welth. The&s;e thre thynges than dothe this holy rule co~mende / &amp; laye vnto the charge of y^e di&s;cyples therof / that is to &s;aye / &s;tudy / prayer / &amp; labour / as thre &s;yngu+ler profytes vnto y^e &s;ame di&s;cyples. For by prayer we ben clen&s;ed / by &s;tudy &amp; redynge we ben in&s;tructed and taught / &amp; by good operacyon &amp; well doynge / we ben made ble&s;&s;ed &amp; holy. So &s;ayth the holy ghoo&s;t by the mouth of the p&s;almi&s;t.<NOTE PLACE="marg">&abpre;s. cxxvij</NOTE> Labores manuu~ tuaru~ quia manducabis: beatus es / et bene tibi erit. That is. By+cau&s;e thou may&s;t be fedde with the labours of thyne owne body &amp; membres / therfore arte y^u ble&s;&s;ed / &amp; thou &s;halte be full well at ea&s;e. It is good than for all per|&s;ones to labour for theyr owne profyte / &s;yth they &s;hall be ble&s;&s;ed therfore / where the rule co~mau~deth y^t euery daye bokes &s;hold be axed &amp; de&s;yred: the v&s;e &amp; diligence of moche redynge &amp; &s;tudy / is therby moche co~mended For y^e very &s;eruau~tes of god &s;holde oftentymes rede &amp; &s;tudy. For y^e redynge &amp; &s;tudy of good werkes / &s;pecyal|ly holy &s;cripture / is moche &abpro;fytable. For by redynge &amp; &s;tudy we may lerne what we &s;holde flee and auoyde / 
<PB N="lxviij" REF="83"> what we &s;hold do / &amp; how to gouerne our &s;elfe / &amp; whe|der / or vnto what ende we &s;holde entende &amp; approche. The p&s;almi&s;t &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">&abpre;s. cxv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i</NOTE> Lucerna pedib&abus; meis <ABBR>vbu~</ABBR> tim. Good lorde thy worde / thy holy &s;cripture is lanterne &amp; lyght / the co~ducte &amp; guydynge of my fete / myne affec|cyons / &amp; of all y^e wayes &amp; ordre of my lyfe. By redynge &amp; &s;tudy / the &s;en&s;es / wyttes and vnder&s;tandynge done multiply &amp; encreace. For &s;tudy &amp; redy~ge doth in&s;tructe &amp; teche euery &abper;&s;one / bothe to praye &amp; labour / &amp; &s;o doth enfourme vs bothe vnto y^e lyfe acty&s;e &amp; co~templatyfe. That per&s;one therfore (&s;ayth the p&s;almi&s;t) is ble&s;&s;ed that bothe daye &amp; nyght hath meditacyon in the lawe of god.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. j.</NOTE> The&s;e twayn therfore / &s;tudy of bokes &amp; prayer ben y^t wepyns &amp; armure wherby y^e deuyll is a&s;&s;ayled &amp; vaynquy&s;&s;hed. And the&s;e ben y^e in&s;trume~tes &amp; mea|nes / wherby euerla&s;tynge bly&s;&s;e is obteyned &amp; goten. By the&s;e artyleres &amp; wepyns / vyce is repre&s;&s;ed / &amp; by this fode is vertue noury&s;&s;hed. And yf ony tyme reli|gyous &abper;&s;ones cea&s;e of redy~ge or prayenge / than &s;hold they werke &amp; labour. For ydelnes is the enemy of the religyous &s;oule. For the gho&s;tly enemy dothe lyghtly drawe vnto vyce &s;uche &abper;&s;ones as he fyndeth not occu|pyed in other redyng / &s;tudy / prayer / or labour. By the v&s;e of redynge &amp; &s;tudy / religyous per&s;ones may lerne how to lyue them&s;elfe / &amp; al&s;o how to teche other &abper;&s;o|nes. By y^e v&s;e of prayer they may bothe profyte them &s;elfe &amp; all other vnto whome they ben knytte &amp; ioyned by charite. And by bodyly labours they may kepe the body lowe from vyces / &amp; al&s;o gete &s;omwhat for them &s;elfe / &amp; for all y^t nedeth. The lettre. Te&s;time~ta vero et calciame~ta / qua~do fuerint indigentib&abus; nece&s;&s;aria / dare non differant: &s;ub quo&abrum; cu&s;todia &s;unt / que po&s;cuntur.
<PB REF="84"> That is. But as for clothynge / ho&s;en &amp; &s;ho&s;e / w^t &s;uche other nece&s;&s;aryes / the offycers vnder who&s;e kepynge they ben / &s;hall not (whan nede is) differre to delyuer. The bokes he wolde &s;holde be delyuered at a certayne houre / we &s;hewed you why: but as for other thynges nece&s;&s;ary / he wolde &s;holde alway be delyuered whan nede requireth / &amp; that w^tout delay / for bycau&s;e the co|uent &s;holde neyther lo&s;e theyr tyme / ne yet be wery nor aba&s;&s;hed in ofte callynge therfore.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Before &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn co~maunded the officers to &s;erue theyr co~pany w^tout grudge / &amp; yf they &s;o do / they may not delay ne dyfferre that is axed nece&s;&s;ary. For yf they do / they gyue therby occa&s;yon vnto theyr fe|lowes to thynke they &s;erue them w^t grudge / &amp; &s;o they done cau&s;e them to grudge agayne. Let the offycers therfore gyue diligence to &s;erue theyr felowes for our lorde / of all nece&s;&s;aryes in due tyme / w^tout grudge / w^t|out di&s;plea&s;ure / w^tout delay / &amp; that w^t gentyll maner / ioye &amp; gladnes of herte.<NOTE PLACE="marg">ij. Co. ix.</NOTE> For our lorde loueth a gladde gyuer &amp; a cherefull myni&s;ter / &amp; a lyberall offycer / &s;o y^t all the co~pany haue all nece&s;&s;aryes after y^e nombre of the congregacion &amp; po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yons of y^e place. And &s;o &s;hall the officers haue al&s;o more rewarde of almighty god. Notw^t&s;tandynge / let euer a due meane &amp; moderacyon be had in all the clothynge &amp; aray of religyous &abper;&s;ones that neyther they be to precyous / to fyne in clothe / to bryght in colour / ne yet to abiecte / to cour&s;e / ne to vyle And that y^e fa&s;hon be neyther courtly ne early&s;&s;he / but in a due meane religyous / &s;o y^t the &s;elfe habyte &amp; aray may (in y^e religyous &abper;&s;one) bothe co~mende religyon &amp; hone&s;te. Let therfore religyous per&s;ones beware they
<PB N="lxix" REF="84"> axe no thynge importunely / ne yet &s;u&abper;fluous. For to be importune is agayn&s;t good religyon / &amp; to haue &s;u&abper;+fluite is ieoperdy of dampnacyon. Let them wey &amp; re|membre that all they &s;pende / is the oblacyons &amp; cha|rite of the good &amp; faythful people / offred &amp; gyuen for y^e redempcyo~ of theyr &s;ynnes. And therfore let them not reioyce / ne be proude of &s;uche expen&s;es / but rather let them fere &amp; drede it be &s;ayd vnto them / that in the olde te&s;tament was &s;ayd vnto the pree&s;tes &amp; myni&s;tres of the temple.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nu. viij.</NOTE> How they &s;holde bere y^e iniqu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">te &amp; &s;ynne of y^e people. And therfore let them euer haue grete drede of them&s;elfe / &amp; hertely praye for them / who&s;e goodes they &s;pende &amp; done v&s;e. It is therfore more &s;urety for &s;oule helth vnto poore religyous &abper;&s;ones / rather &s;om|what to want and nede (as is before &s;ayd) than ony thynge to haue ouer moche and &s;u&abper;fluous. For how &s;hold religyous &abper;&s;ones be wylfully poore except they (for our lord) wyll &s;uffre pacyently &s;ome maner of pe|nury. Whan they reme~bre than / they haue done ma|ny thynges vnlawfully / they &s;hold ab&s;tayne &amp; forbere &s;omwhat / that they myght take &amp; v&s;e lawfully. For they mu&s;t co~tende &amp; &s;tryue to entre by the &s;trayte gate that &s;o they may come vnto y^e large &amp; plea&s;au~t playne of euerla&s;tyng Ioye.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. vij.</NOTE> For y^e more &s;trayte lyfe we kepe here for our lorde / y^e more glory &s;hall we haue in bly&s;&s;e The lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ita habet or<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le. anima~ fratrio facit homici|da~ ne&abque; ad &s;o|los viros &abper;ti|net <ABBR>qd</ABBR> &s;criptu~ e&s;t. Qui odit fratre~ &s;ou~ / ho|micida e&s;t. fed &s;ern ma&s;culino que~ primu~ d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&abus; fecit: etia~ feni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ceptu~ accepit.</NOTE> Lites / aut nullas habeatis / aut &abquam; celer|rime finiatis / ne ira cre&s;cat in odiu~ / et trabe~ faciat de+fe&s;tuca: et anima~ fratris faciat homicida~. Sic enim le+gitis: qui odit fratre~ &s;uu~: homida e&s;t. That is. As for &s;tryftes &amp; debates / eyther haue none amonge you / or els yf ye haue / make &s;horte ende of them / le&s;t a lytell wrathe or di&s;plea&s;ure growe vnto hatred / &amp; &s;o make
<PB REF="85"> of a &s;trawe a beame / of a mote a blocke / and cau&s;e the hert &amp; mynde of your felowe to be an homicyde &amp; man+&s;leer.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioan. 3.</NOTE> For &s;o may ye rede in &s;cripture. Qui odit fratre~ &s;uu~ / homicida e&s;t. Who &s;o hateth his broder and euen chry&s;ten / is a man&s;leer. We &s;hewed you before how this rule doth ordre the officers vnto the couent / &amp; the couent vnto the officers. Here now it doth ordre euery per&s;one of y^e couent vnto other / &s;pecyally vnto y^e effect &amp; purpo&s;e wherwith it began / that is to &s;aye / that y^e dy&s;cyples of this rule &s;holde alwaye lyue togyder in peace &amp; vnite / &amp; haue euer one herte &amp; one wyll in our lorde. And that can neuer be / except debate &amp; &s;tryfte be fyr&s;t excluded &amp; auoyded / or at the le&s;t rea&s;onably my|tygate &amp; wy&s;ely refourmed. For in this lyfe we be not au~gels / &amp; therfore he &s;ayth / eyther haue you no deba|tes / whiche apperteyneth vnto the perfyte &abper;&s;ones / or at the le&s;t / yf by chaunce ye do &s;tryue / &s;oone &amp; quyckly leue &amp; make an ende therof / that he &s;ayth for y^e frayle &abper;&s;ones &amp; vnexercy&s;ed / &amp; the cau&s;e why he doth &s;hewe forthw^t / le&s;t more euyll &s;holde growe therof.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> Here now</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Synne &amp; vyce dothe (by lytell &amp; lytell) growe &amp; en|creace vnto more greuous offence of god. For who &s;o wyl not re&s;trayne y^e tongue from vayne &s;peche &amp; ydle wordes / doth oftentymes fall in to many inco~uenyen+tes / as murmure / detraccyon / &amp; many tymes to braw+lynge / chydynge / contencyon / &s;tryuyng / &amp; debate / &amp; &s;o vnto augre and hatred.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Eccli.</ABBR> xix.</NOTE> And (as the wy&s;e man &s;ayth) who is negligent in &s;mall thynges / &s;hall &s;oone fall vn+to the more greuous offences. So whan vyce &s;pryn|geth &amp; groweth of vyce / the iniquite &amp; euyll lyfe of the per&s;one is prolonged &amp; contynued. The &abpro;phete &s;ayth.</P>
<PB N="lxx" REF="85">
<P>Te qui trahitis vanitate~. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR><NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. v.</NOTE> Woo &amp; payne be vnto you that done drawe in length &amp; done co~tynue vanite / by the cordes &amp; multiplycacyon of vanite. And y^e p&s;al|mi&s;t &s;ayth. Prolongaueru~t iniq^itate~ &s;ua~. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR><NOTE PLACE="marg">&abpre;. cxxviij</NOTE> The &s;yn+ners of the worlde haue prolonged &amp; contynued theyr iniquite / but our iu&s;t &amp; ryghtwy&s;e lorde hath broken the neckes &amp; brought downe the pryde of all &s;ynners. Fyr&s;t therfore &amp; aboue all other thynges / &s;ynne mu&s;t be e&s;chewed &amp; auoyded.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> For better is to be ware &amp; a|uoyde tre&s;pace / than to make amendes therfore. And yf by chau~ce a tre&s;pace be done / it may be &s;oone amen|ded / yf w^t lowly hert &amp; wylfull mynde it be forthwith confe&s;&s;ed &amp; knowledged. Our lorde &s;ayd vnto y^e &s;erpent in parady&s;e of the woman Eue.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gene. iij</NOTE> Ip&s;a conteret caput tuum. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> She &s;hall cru&s;&s;he &amp; bru&s;e thyne heed. The heed &amp; princypal parte of the &s;erpent of &s;ynne / is than broken / whan the &s;ynne forthwith after y^e begy~nyng is corrected &amp; amended. All chry&s;tyans therfore / &s;pe|cyally religyous &abper;&s;ones / &s;holde w^t all &s;tudy &amp; diligence whan they knowe they haue offended / labour forthw^t to make amendes. For loke how grete difference is by+twene a &s;trawe &amp; beame / &amp; &s;o moche or more difference is bytwene yre &amp; hatred. For hatred is grou~ded wrath that remayneth &amp; re&s;teth in the hert &amp; mynde / that &s;o at length encreaceth vnto &s;uche malyce / y^t well it may be called a beame or a blocke. And wrathe is a more lyght mouyng of y^e blode by di&s;plea&s;ure / whiche often tymes may be w^tout &s;ynne &amp; with charite / vnto the a|mendement / reformacyon or correccyon of a per&s;one / &amp; &s;omtyme it is veniall / &amp; than doth it trouble the eye or &s;yght of y^e &s;oule / that is to &s;ay / due &amp; rea&s;onable di&s;cre+cyon / but hatred doth put clene out y^t eye or &s;yght of y^e
<PB REF="86"> &s;oule / &amp; maketh y^e hateful per&s;one &s;tarke blynde / w^tout rea&s;on or di&s;crecyon.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Ioa~. ij.</NOTE> The apo&s;tle &s;ayth. Qui odit fra+tre~ / in tenebris e&s;t. Who &s;o euer done hate theyr euen chry&s;ten / they done dwell in darknes. And y^e per&s;ones that ben wroth / ben ofte~tymes di&s;plea&s;ed with them &s;elfe / bycau&s;e they ben wroth. All chry&s;tyans therfore &s;pecyally religyous &abper;&s;ones / &s;hold quyckly and &s;hortly auoyde all indignacyon / &amp; euer returne vnto &s;oftnes &amp; gentylnes. For a &s;tyffe &s;tomacke thorowe &amp; depely an|gred / pa&s;&s;eth lightly vnto hatred. So that he wyl not lyghtly forgyue / ne forgete / &amp; therfore en&s;eweth &amp; fo|loweth. Quicu~&abque; aute~ co~uicio vel maledicto / vel etia~ criminis obiecto / alique~ le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erit:<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. l. obie|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tu / alte&abrum;</NOTE> meminerit &s;ati&s;factio~e &abquam; citius curare <ABBR>qd</ABBR> fecit: et ille q^i le&s;us e&s;t / &s;ine decepta|tione) dimittere. That is. And who &s;o by rebuke / chy|dynge / brawlynge / cur&s;ynge / euyll wordes / or ha&s;ty &s;peche / or yet by ony vpbrayde of defaute or tre&s;pace done before / done moue &amp; greue / or hurte ony of theyr felowes / let them remembre by due &s;aty&s;faccyon to a|mende that they dyd amy&s;&s;e. And let al&s;o them y^t ben greued or hurte / w^tout ony ferther reher&s;e / argument or rea&s;onynge / clerely forgyue the offence. Saynt Au+gu&s;tyn (as we &s;hewed you) gaue before vnto y^e di&s;cy|ples of this rule two maner of doctrynes. One vnto y^e perfyte &abper;&s;ones / y^t no &s;tryfte ne debate &s;hold be amonge them. The other vnto y^e frayle &abper;&s;ones / that yf debate fortune / &s;oone they &s;hold make ende therof / the rea&s;on &amp; cau&s;e wherof &s;hewed / he now here ordreth y^e per&s;o|nes how they &s;holde make y^t &s;horte ende / &amp; be al&s;o reco~+&s;yled vnto vnite &amp; peace. And that is a redy and &s;horte meane in fewe wordes mekely &s;poken / &amp; charytably receyued. Mea culpa. two holy wordes &amp; moche me|dicynable.
<PB N="lxxi" REF="86"> Herken now</P>
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<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; They done greuou&s;ly offende / y^t by rebukes / euyll wordes / &amp; &s;clau~drous meanes done greue or hurt ony per&s;one. For the apo&s;tle &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co. vj.</NOTE> Maledici regnu~ dei no~ po&s;&s;idebunt. Reylers &amp; euyll &s;pekers &s;hall neuer haue po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon in heuen. And our lord in y^e go&s;pell.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. v.</NOTE> He that calleth his chri&s;ten broder fole / &s;hal be gylty &amp; worthy to be iudged vnto the fyre of hell. Religyous per&s;ones whan they haue greuou&s;ly offended / mu&s;t be moche &s;ory therfore / &amp; with all theyr hertes in all mekenes axe forgyuenes of them whome they haue offended. And they agayne y^t were offended &s;holde gladly w^tout reher&s;e or rea&s;onynge / clerely forgyue them. Saynt I&s;odour &s;ayth, who &s;o euer &s;lackly &amp; &s;lowly done reco~|&s;yle theyr chry&s;ten broder / &s;hall &s;lackly recon&s;yle &amp; ap|pea&s;e our lorde vnto them&s;elfe. For they done vaynly de&s;yre our lord to be mercyfull vnto them / that ben ne|gligent &amp; wyll not redyly be recon&s;yled &amp; appea&s;ed w^t theyr company. But &s;ome per&s;ones done tru&s;t moche vpon theyr owne merytes / &amp; by y^e rea&s;on therof / they make lytel to differre them that axe forgyuenes / they wyll not take theyr mea culpa / theyr mekenes / theyr penitence / as though they wolde declare them&s;elfe / &amp; make it knowen vnto the company / that the axers of forgyuenes / the &s;ayers of mea culpa / &s;hold haue offen+ded agayn&s;t them / &amp; that they were w^tout defaute / &amp; pure innocentes. But &s;urely all though they were in dede innocent and no thynge culpable / yet no thynge &s;hold&abis; auayle them that innocency anen&s;t god / yf they wolde not be euer redy to forgyue / and to take gladly mea culpa. For al though there were none other &s;ynne in them / but onely that the &s;ynne &amp; defaut of theyr fe|lowe
<PB REF="87"> &amp; broder were of them longe differed &amp; vnforgy+uen / yet were that a grete &s;ynne. And y^t we may take of y^e go&s;pel / where the &s;eruau~t y^t was in dette of .x.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. xviij.</NOTE> M. talentes / a &s;omme that pa&s;&s;ed hy~ to paye / yet as &s;oone as he axed mercy / he was forthw^t forgyuen: but after whan he wold not in lyke maner forgyue his felowe C. pens / he was co~mau~ded vnto pry&s;on / vnto all his owne dette were payed / &amp; that was for euer. For he was neuer able to pay y^e dette. Wherby we may take for a &s;ure conclu&s;yon / that yf we done not w^t hole hert forgyue them y^t done offende vs / we &s;hall not be forgy+uen y^t we offende god / but rather that we &s;uppo&s;ed &amp; byleued was before vnto vs forgyuen / &s;hall be newly layde vnto our charge / &amp; we to paye euery peny. The lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. le&s;e|runt</NOTE> Si aute~ inuice~ &s;e le&s;erint: inuice~ &s;ibi debita re|laxare debent / propter orationes ve&s;tras: quas vti&abque; quanto crebriores habebitis / tanto &s;anctiores habere debetis. That is. But yf they haue hurte or greued eche other / let them &s;o eche forgyue other. And y^t le&s;t they let or hyndre your diuine &s;eruyce &amp; prayers / whi+che diuyne prayers &amp; &s;eruyce &s;holde be &s;o moche more deuoutly done that you done v&s;e &amp; dayly exercy&s;e your &s;elfe therin. Here &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne dothe ordeyne for bothe y^e partyes tre&s;pacers. For after y^t moo&s;t co~mune maner of all people &amp; all nacyons / where &s;o euer &s;tryft or debate doth ary&s;e bytwene ony per&s;ones / bothe the partyes be~ &s;omwhat ouer&s;een / &amp; &s;omwhat done pa&s;&s;e due me&s;ure. And therfore he wolde bothe &s;holde make amendes / &amp; y^t is euer a &s;ure waye / &amp; a grete di&s;charge of con&s;cyence / &s;o it be vnfayntly done. Se now holy</P>
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<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; We dayly done &s;aye vnto our lorde Dimitte nobis
<PB N="lxxij" REF="87"> debita no&s;tra: &s;icut et nos dimittimus debitorib&abus; nr~is.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. vj.</NOTE> Forgyue vs good lorde our dettes / in lyke maner as we done forgyue our detters. Yf we than do not forgy+ue them that offend vs (for tho&s;e ben our detters) our owne prayer doth confou~de vs. And we done prouoke our lorde to wrath agayn&s;t vs / and &s;o rather we done gete y^e cur&s;e of god than his ble&s;&s;yng. And &s;o y^t prayer that &s;holde be for our &s;oule helthe / is vnto vs moche noyous. For where it &s;holde myny&s;&s;he / it dothe now multyply &amp; encreace our offences. The dayly prayer of the faythfull chry&s;tyans doth make large &s;ati&s;fac|cyon for &s;uche venyall &s;ynnes as we done dayly com|mytte / w^tout whiche we can not lightly pa&s;&s;e this lyf Vnto all &s;uche per&s;ones than doth it appertayn &amp; be|longe of co~uenyency to &s;aye Pater nr~ q^i es celis. Good lorde fader that arte in heuen: that ben bapty&s;ed / all y^t ben chry&s;ten people. For this holy prayer doth put a|waye all theyr dayly &s;ynnes / not onely venyall / but al&s;o mortall / &s;o they haue contricyon &amp; purpo&s;e at due tyme to make true co~fe&s;&s;yon / &amp; to do for them &s;ati&s;fac|cyon. And than they &s;aye truly w^t vnfeyned hert vnto our lord for them&s;elfe. dimitte nobis. forgyue vs lord. For many &s;ynnes hath euery &abper;&s;one done y^t of our lorde may &amp; mu&s;t be forgyuen / but &s;e they &s;aye as truly w^t the &s;ame hert. Sicut et nos. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> Lyke as we done for|gyue. For y^t al&s;o mu&s;t be done in dede / or els all is voy|de. For the moo&s;t princypall almes &amp; compa&s;&s;yon / is lyghtly and redyly forthwith w^tout &s;toppe to forgyue them that done axe forgyuenes / &amp; vtterly to forgete y^e offence. For many &amp; dyuer&s;e maner of alme&s;&s;es there ben / wherby &s;ynnes ben quenched &amp; forgyuen of our lorde. But none almes / no compa&s;&s;yon / no charite can
<PB REF="88"> be lyke vnto that almes / wha~ we hertely &amp; holy done forgyue them y^t haue offe~ded vs. It is but a &s;mall ma+ter to haue vnto them good wyll / or to do them good that neuer dyd vnto the hurte. But to loue thyne ene|my / to do them good that done y^e euyll: that is of excel+lent goodnes. And yet is y^t a le&s;&s;on of our &s;auyour Ie|&s;u.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. v.</NOTE> Diligite inimicos vr~os. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> Loue you (&s;ayth he) your enemyes / &amp; do you good vnto them y^t done hate you / &amp; praye you for them that done &abper;&s;ecute you. But this poynt is of hygh perfeccyon / vnto y^t whiche not|with&s;tandynge euery chry&s;tyan &s;hold&abis; labour &amp; ende|uoyre hym&s;elfe to attayne. But all though we come not vnto the full poynt of that perfeccion / yet may we come well vnto this &abpro;fytable poynt / to forgyue them that done axe of vs forgyuenes / &amp; that mu&s;t we nede|ly do / yf we forgyuen wyll be. For our &s;auyour &s;ayth in an other place.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. vj.</NOTE> Si dimi&s;eritis hoi~bus pcta~ eo&abrum; <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> Yf you (&s;ayth he) wyll forgyue all &abper;&s;ones theyr offen|ces / your fader of heuen wyll forgyue you your offen|ces. And yf contrary / ye wyll not forgyue / be you in a &s;urety / ye &s;hall not be forgyuen.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. vj.</NOTE> Dimitte et <ABBR>dimittet</ABBR> vobis. Forgyue you therfore / &amp; ye &s;hall be forgyuen. And yf ye do y^e defaut your &s;elfe / than forthw^t axe you forgyuenes. For in y^e lettre foloweth. Melior e&s;t aute~ qui &abquam;uis ira &s;epe te~tatur: tame~ impetrare fe&s;tinat / vt &s;ibi dimittat / cui &s;e feci&s;&s;e agno&s;cit iniuria~: &abquam; qui tar|dius ira&s;citur:<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. diffici+lius meli|natur.</NOTE> &amp; ad petenda~ venia~: tardius inclinatur. That <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s. And yet tho &abper;&s;ones y^t ofte ben tempted with yre &amp; &s;oone angry / &amp; yet y^t notw^t&s;tandynge wyll make ha&s;te to haue forgyuenes of them whome they had wronged / ben moche better than tho&s;e y^t more lately ben wroth / &amp; ben more lothe to be enclyned &amp; entreated
<PB N="lxxiij" REF="88"> to axe forgyuenes. Here &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn con&s;ydery~ge the dyuer&s;e di&s;po&s;icyon of frayle &amp; vnperfyte &abper;&s;ones / doth determyne &amp; &s;hewe whiche &abper;&s;ones ben more tole+rable / more to be &s;uffred. Some &abper;&s;ones wyll be &s;oone angry / &amp; in theyr hete &amp; pa&s;&s;yon they wyll &s;peke &s;hre|wedly / or out of tune / &amp; &s;omtyme in that ha&s;tynes do a di&s;plea&s;ure: but &s;oone after comynge vnto them&s;elfe they ben ryght &s;ory / &amp; ben redy w^t all mekenes &amp; hole herte to &s;aye mea culpa / to axe forgyuenes. But &s;ome other of more hygh mynde / wyl not lightly be moued but in maner di&s;&s;ymule y^e mater. But than yf they be di&s;plea&s;ed / they &s;tudy to be auenged / &amp; neuer wyl they re&s;t / tyll they brynge theyr purpo&s;e to pa&s;&s;e / by ryght or wronge. And whan they ben &s;poken to &amp; moued vn+to con&s;cience of theyr behauyour / they wyll w^t a &s;tyffe &s;tomacke defende theyr defaut / &amp; lothe by ony meanes to axe forgyuenes / or to make ony amendes. The per|&s;ones of y^e fyr&s;t di&s;po&s;icyon ben better (&s;ayth y^e lettre y^t is to &s;ay / le&s;&s;e euyl / not &s;o noyous as y^e other. Of them y^t neuer wyll amende &s;hall folowe / after ye haue herde</P>
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<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; AS vnto tho&s;e &abper;&s;ones that wyll not forgyue theyr felowes / let them (as we &s;ayd) haue no tru&s;t to haue y^e effecte &amp; profyte of theyr prayer in the Pater nr~. Yre &amp; wrath doth &s;oone moue &s;ome &abper;&s;ones / &amp; &s;oone agayne in them cea&s;eth. Other &abper;&s;ones doth it moue more late+ly / but than it holdeth them lenger / &amp; co~tynueth more &s;tyfly. But &s;ome ben of wor&s;e di&s;po&s;icyon / wel nere de+uylly&s;&s;he / that &s;oone wyll be wroth / &amp; longe &amp; lothe to be &s;ofte &amp; appea&s;ed. And &s;ome of a co~trary di&s;po&s;icyon &amp; godly / that wyll be longe &amp; lothe to be moued or di&s;|plea&s;ed / and yet yf by chau~ce they fall thervnto / they
<PB REF="89"> haue &s;oone done w^tall / &amp; ben forthw^t full &s;ory therfore. This later di&s;po&s;icyon is better than y^e fyr&s;t. And the thyrde wor&s;e than y^e &s;econd. Let therfore all religyous &abper;&s;ons wey &amp; marke how grete an offe~ce is this &s;ynne of wrath / wherby good pacyence &amp; gentyll maner is put away / &amp; y^e ymage of god in y^e &s;oule is blemy&s;&s;hed &amp; defaced. For by angre a &abper;&s;one lo&s;eth wy&s;dome &amp; di&s;cre+cyon / &s;o y^t many tymes they wote not what they do or &s;ay. And by angre y^e grace / fauour &amp; co~modite of good familiarite &amp; companyable lyuynge is lo&s;t &amp; de&s;troyed By wrathe al&s;o is iu&s;tyce lefte &amp; &s;et a&s;yde. For y^e wy&s;e man &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prou. xxij</NOTE> Noli e&s;&s;e a&s;&s;duus cu~ homine iracu~do. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> Be not (&s;ayth he) to moche familier w^t an angry &abper;&s;one and lerne not to folowe his wayes ne maners. For &s;o may ye &s;oone take occa&s;yon &amp; example of euyll / vnto y^e hurte of your &s;oule. For who &s;o euer done not tempre &amp; ordre them&s;elfe after rea&s;on / ben in theyr lyuynge lyke vnto bee&s;tes. The angry &amp; wroth &abper;&s;ones done not al|waye fyght &amp; &s;tryue w^t hand / but rather w^t &s;hrewed &amp; frowarde wordes they wyll fyght w^t the tongue / &amp; &s;o longe oftentymes they co~tynue &amp; multyply language that the &s;trawe waxeth a beme / that is to &s;ay / wrath turneth vnto hatred &amp; malyce. We ben oftentymes a|ba&s;&s;hed &amp; loth to be de&s;py&s;ed / we haue indignacyon to be rebuked / &amp; to &s;uffre a &s;harpe worde: &amp; yf we rean|&s;were lyke vnto lyke / than &s;hall we be loth fyr&s;t to &s;ay mea culpa / &amp; than &s;hal we begyn to rea&s;on why &s;hold I fyr&s;t &s;ay mea culpa. He or &s;he / fyr&s;t offe~ded / let them fyr&s;t make the amendes. For yf I &s;hold &s;ay fyr&s;t / than &s;holde I be occa&s;yon of pryde in them. Thus y^e carnall herte the proude mynde / de&s;yrynge &amp; coueytynge the glory &amp; vayne pray&s;e of y^e worlde / for&s;aketh humilite.
<PB N="lxxiiij" REF="89"> And all though he wolde fayne be at one &amp; recon&s;iled / yet is he a&s;hamed to make fyr&s;t &s;aty&s;faccyon / to &s;aye fyr&s;t mea culpa. Ah good lorde / &amp; we wolde loke well vpon his actes / we &s;hold &s;oone be a&s;hamed of our &s;elfe For fyr&s;t we done offende hym / &amp; yet doth he fyr&s;t &s;ue for y^e peace &amp; reco~&s;iliacyon. We &s;holde therfore be a&s;ha|med of our proude herte &amp; &s;tyffe &s;tomacke / &amp; vtterly be confou~ded / yf we y^t done offende / do not fyr&s;t make the amendes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Originale<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> habet. Que no~ vuli<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> mittere &s;or|no~ &s;peret a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">+pere oratio<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> effect&s;i: que nun&abquam; vult<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &para; The oryg<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">+nall wryt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> we &s;ayd) fy<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> vnto wonie<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> hath thus. And &s;he th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> hath not w<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> to forgyue<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;y&s;ter / let h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> not tru&s;t to l<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">+ue the effec<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of ony pray<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> but &s;he that wyll neuer s<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters"> forgyuenes</NOTE> Syth he y^t neuer dothe offende / but alway is offe~ded / is &s;o redy to be reco~&s;yled. The lettre. Qui aute~ nun&abquam; vult petere venia~ / aut non ex animo petit: &s;ine cau&s;a e&s;t in mona&s;terio / etia~ &s;i inde no~ proijciatur. That is. And who &s;o wyll neuer axe forgyuenes / or y^t done not axe it w^t hole herte &amp; mynde / w^tout rea&s;on or cau&s;e byde they in the mona&s;tery / all though they be not ca&s;t out / or put away therfro~. And hard iudgement For after the mynde of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne &s;uche harde herted &abper;&s;ones as can not fynde in theyr hertes to &s;aye mea culpa mekely / be not metely to be in religyon / &amp; yf they ben therin / they ben worthy to be excluded &amp; put out therfrom.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Our &s;auyour Ie&s;u co~mau~ded / that yf we were re|dy to do &s;acrefyce / or to make oblacion vnto our lord / &amp; than we dyd reme~bre that we had offended our euen chry&s;ten / we &s;holde leue y^t &s;acrefyce &amp; go fyr&s;t vnto the greued &abper;&s;one / &amp; &s;o be reco~&s;yled / &amp; than go vnto y^e borde of our lord.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~.<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> And here is notable / that the go&s;pell &s;ayd not / yf thou haue ony grudge in thy hert agayn&s;t thy neyghbour (For &s;o may no per&s;one approche vnto the borde &amp; pre&s;ence of our lorde / hangynge ony malyce or grudge of herte) but y^e lettre &s;ayth / all though y^u haue no di&s;plea&s;ure in thy mynde agayn&s;t ony &abper;&s;one / yet yf
<PB REF="90"> thou remembre ony other hath grudge agayn&s;t the / leue thy &s;acrefyce / &amp; labour fyr&s;t to be recon&s;yled vnto thy broder. Se how moche our lorde &s;etteth by our re+co~&s;iliacyon / by our agrement / our vnite &amp; peace / more than by &s;acrefyce done vnto hym. How moche than may tho&s;e &abper;&s;ones be a&s;hamed y^t wyll &s;uffre di&s;corde to go forth / &amp; malyce to encreace &amp; multyply? Our lorde dothe not onely puny&s;&s;he them that ben wroth &amp; done kepe it longe in mynde / but al&s;o them y^t ben negligent to be recon&s;yled / &amp; that done de&s;py&s;e &amp; &s;et lytell by the wrath &amp; di&s;plea&s;ure of theyr felowes. The per&s;ones y^t haue &amp; that done &s;uffre wronge / haue cau&s;e to be trou+bled &amp; di&s;plea&s;ed / but &s;o haue not they y^t haue done the wronge / &amp; therfore the le&s;&s;on of our lorde in the go&s;pel doth &s;end them y^t haue done di&s;plea&s;ure / or that haue gyuen occa&s;yon vnto them y^t ben vnre&s;ted. Shewy~ge therby that y^e greter offence is alwaye in them y^t done fyr&s;t gyue y^e occa&s;yon. But many ben &s;o high mynded &s;o &s;tyffe &s;tomacked / y^t they wyll not in ony wy&s;e bowe &s;o lowe to &s;aye mea culpa / but rather byde &s;tyfly by y^t they haue &s;aid or done / &amp; that for tryfles / &amp; as though they had no thynge offended / they &s;et lytell therby / &amp; forgete the mater / &amp; &s;o ouerpa&s;&s;e &amp; di&s;&s;imule it a longe tyme / but lytell knowe they / and le&s;&s;e done they wey how longe payn they &s;hal abyde therfore. Where true loue &amp; &abpro;fyte vnite is permanent &amp; abydynge / there is no crede~ce gyuen / no thyngelyghtly herde &amp; receyued that myght in ony wy&s;e make di&s;corde. But &amp; yf ha|tred haue ones y^e rome &amp; place / than all thynges y^t ben done / all that ben &s;ayd / &amp; al that ben herde / ben alway taken / applyed / con&s;trued / vnder&s;tonde vnto y^e wor&s;te &s;o that y^e hatred &amp; enemytry is euer multyplyed &amp; en|creaced.
<PB N="lxxv" REF="90"> And the moo&s;t euyll / is moo&s;t &s;oone byleued &amp; en&s;ued. But our lord badde leue the oblacyon before y^e awter / &amp; fyr&s;t be reco~&s;yled vnto thy felewe. Yf than he wold for that tyme of that holy &s;acrefyce / haue it lefte rather than the reco~&s;ylynge &amp; agrement: how moche more wolde he haue y^t done at other tymes? We ben co~mau~ded in an other place.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph~. iiij</NOTE> Sol non occidat &s;u&abper; ira|cundia~ ve&s;tra~. Let not the &s;onne go downe vpon your wrath. as though he &s;ayd / ye &s;hold neuer go vnto re&s;t out of charite. But alas many &abper;&s;ones ben not content with one daye or twayne / but ouer y^t to &s;tudy &amp; yma|gyn how to do more di&s;plea&s;ure / &amp; eyther by wordes or dedes to &s;upplant &amp; deceyue theyr felowes / to back byte / &s;clau~dre / &amp; eche to ete other / whiche is a playne token of madde men / &amp; furyous &abper;&s;ones. For they byte theyr owne armes / &amp; in dyuer&s;e places &amp; membres of theyr owne body they hurte them&s;elfe. So doubtles doth euery chry&s;tyan that hurteth y^e neyghbour. For we ben all &s;pu~all membres eche vnto other. Tho per|&s;ones therfore be no thynge fruytfull for y^e mona&s;tery that ben full of di&s;corde &amp; debate. For they do neyther drede our lord / ne appea&s;e hym w^t ony &s;acrefice / ne ony thynge done they &abpro;fyte by theyr werkes / all though they were good werkes of the~&s;elfe. The lettre. Pro|uide vobis / a verbis durioribus parcite: que &s;i emi&s;&s;a fuerint de ore ve&s;tro: no~ pigeat ex ip&s;o ore &abpro;ferre medi|camenta: vnde facta &s;unt vulnera. That is. Therfore be you well ware / &amp; kepe your &s;elfe from harde &amp; gre|uous wordes. And yf (by chau~ce) ony &s;uche (of frayl|ty) do pa&s;&s;e your mouth / be you not lothe w^t the &s;ame mouth to make the &s;alue &amp; medicyne / wherw^t ye made the &s;ore &amp; offence. Here ye may perceyue y^e cou~&s;eyle of
<PB REF="91"> &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn vnto bothe y^e &abper;&s;ones y^t before I &s;pake of vnto y^e &abpro;fyte &abper;&s;ones / he &s;ayth. Beware &amp; kepe your &s;elfe from al greuous wordes. Vnto y^e frayle per&s;ones yf ye do &s;peke amy&s;&s;e / make amendes / &amp; that without lothnes.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Fyr&s;t religious &abper;&s;ones mu&s;t w^t all dilige~ce be ware they trouble no &abper;&s;one by theyr wordes. For the wy&s;e man &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rou. xv.</NOTE> A &s;ofte &amp; gentyl an&s;were / doth &s;wage yre. And rough or harde &s;peche / moueth dy&s;plea&s;ure. A &s;wete worde dothe mytygate &amp; appea&s;e an enemy / &amp; multiplyeth &amp; encreaceth frendes.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ala. vj.</NOTE> Saynt Paule. You that ben &s;pirituall &abper;&s;ones / &s;hold in&s;tructe &amp; enfourme all other in the &s;piryte &amp; &s;peche of gentylnes. So than it becometh &s;pirytuall per&s;ones to be ware of all gre|uous wordes. And yf ony tyme they fall by chau~ce or fraylty thervnto / they mu&s;t forthw^t in all goodly ha&s;te ordre them&s;elfe to make amendes. And than to &s;peke agayne fayre wordes / gentyll wordes / &s;wete &amp; pea&s;y+ble wordes. So that the medicyne of mea culpa / and of meke confe&s;&s;yon may hele the wou~de of ha&s;ty com|mocyon. But (as we &s;ayd before) it is better to auoy|de beforehande the offence / than after to amende that is amy&s;&s;e / how be it / to amende is alwaye well / but the very religyous per&s;one &s;holde euer be ware / and put (as the p&s;almi&s;t &s;ayth) a cu&s;tody and porter vnto his mouth / that he neuer offende in the tongue or &s;pe+che / and &s;pecyally whan brawlers / quarellers / hygh mynded and enuyous per&s;ones ben pre&s;ent / that wyll (of purpo&s;e) moue y^e well di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ones vnto di&s;|corde.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">. xxxviij.</NOTE> Therfore &s;ayth the wy&s;e man.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Eccli.</ABBR> v.</NOTE> Yf thou haue vn+der&s;tandynge &amp; di&s;crecyon / than make thou an&s;were. And yf thou haue not / &s;toppe thy mouth w^t thy hande
<PB N="lxxvj" REF="91"> le&s;t thou be confou~ded by thyne owne wordes / &s;poken contrary vnto di&s;cyplyne and good maner.</P>
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</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>&para; The &s;euenth chapytre of the rule.</HEAD>
<P>_QVando aute~ nece&s;&s;itas di&s;cipline in mori|bus coercendis:<NOTE PLACE="marg">lxxxvj. d<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+&s;ti~. Qua<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+do.</NOTE> dicere vos verba dura co~|pellit (Si etia~ ip&s;i vos modu~ exce&s;&s;i&s;&s;e &s;en+titis) non a vobis <ABBR>exigit:</ABBR> vt a vobis &s;ubdi+tis / veniam po&s;tuletis: ne apud eos quos oportet e&s;&s;e &s;ubiectos:<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. dum nimia.</NOTE> dum nimiu~ <ABBR>&s;eruat</ABBR> humilitas / regendi fran+gatur auctoritas. That is. But whan the nece&s;&s;ite of di&s;cyplyne &amp; correccyon for euyl maners &amp; defautes to be refourmed / doth compell you that be &s;oueraynes to &s;peke harde &amp; &s;harpe wordes / though al&s;o ye do per|ceyue your &s;elfe that ye haue exceded and pa&s;&s;ed good maner / or me&s;ure therin / yet is not required of you y^t ye &s;hold&abis; axe forgyuenes of your &s;ubiectes / le&s;t therby in y^t opinyon of them y^t mu&s;t nede be vnto you &s;ubdued your auctorite to rule / to gouerne (by the &s;trayte ob&s;er+uynge of mekenes) be letted / broken / or dimyny&s;&s;hed. Here doth &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn ordre the &s;ouerayne vnto y^e &s;ubiectes / &amp; than wyll he ordre the &s;ubiectes vnto the &s;ouerayne / vnto the fynall ende &amp; conclu&s;yon of y^e rule that is due obedience / &amp; for that cau&s;e he putteth fyr&s;t the &s;oueraynes in auctorite / for y^t is nece&s;&s;ary / yet wyl he theyr auctorite &s;holde be v&s;ed by charite / for the due correccyon of y^e &s;ubiectes &amp; reformacyon of them / more by &s;piritual loue / than eyther by drede or carnall affec+cyon.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Expo&s;i.</NOTE> And y^t is well declared by</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The di&s;po&s;icyon co~munly of louyng &s;oueraynes / &amp; of all charitable may&s;ters and techers / is &s;omwhat to &s;eme di&s;plea&s;ed / &amp; the more they loue / y^e more to threte
<PB REF="92"> or do correccyon / &amp; to &s;peke &s;harply / and all in due pa|cyence / by the very flambe of charite / not &s;o moche for the puny&s;&s;hement as for the good reformacyon of the &abper;&s;one. For y^t whiche is a notable doctryne in &s;cripture Our lorde god by his &abpro;phete Moy&s;es gaue a precept vnto y^e chyldre of i&s;rael / &s;ayenge.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Deut.</ABBR> xix</NOTE> Yf ony &abper;&s;one wyll go with his frende or felowe vnto y^e wode to hewe downe trees / and (by chau~ce) the hatchet or axe fall out of his hande / &amp; &s;o do hurt or &s;lee his felowe &amp; frende / let hym flee vnto one of the &s;anctuary townes &amp; &s;aue his lyfe / le&s;t perauenture y^e neyghbours &amp; kynrede of y^e per&s;one &s;layne / do in theyr hete of di&s;plea&s;ure pur&s;ue &amp; folowe hym / &amp; &s;o take hym &amp; &s;lee hym agayn / &amp; do vengeau~ce for vengeau~ce.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> good ex+<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o&s;icyo~ of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">his &s;crip+<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ure.</NOTE> A &abper;&s;one goth vnto y^e wode w^t his frende whan &s;o euer he doth apply hym&s;elfe after good ordre to loke vpon y^e co~uer&s;acion of theyr lyf. And he heweth downe wode playnly w^tout ony deceyte / whan he cut|teth awaye &amp; blameth (w^t due maner &amp; good entent) y^e vyce &amp; defautes of y^e gylty &amp; tre&s;pacer. But &s;omtyme (by chau~ce) the axe or hatchet flyeth of y^e &s;tele or hafte / whan &s;o euer in rebukynge the vyce / he doth excede &amp; &s;peke more &s;harply than nede requireth / &amp; than dothe the hatchet &s;tryke his frende / whan &s;o euer y^t wordes ben harde &amp; rigorous. And yf they growe vnto contu|mely &amp; vnto &s;hamefull vpbraydes &amp; infamous rebu|kes of y^e per&s;one / than do they kyll &amp; &s;lee y^e per&s;one / the cau&s;e is / for by y^e herynge of &s;o harde wordes / &amp; &s;o ex|treme rebukes / the &abper;&s;one is not recouered nor refour|med / but rather ferther departed out of good loue / &amp; from y^e &s;pirite of charite. For y^e mynde of y^e per&s;one y^t is &s;o rebuked / dothe therby growe rather vnto hatred &amp; di&s;plea&s;ure / than to good reformacion / therfore mode|rate
<PB N="lxxvij" REF="92"> and meane correccyon is alway be&s;t. For who &s;o euer do excede by y^e &s;harpnes of tongue &amp; hard wordes (as is before &s;ayd) he mu&s;t nede (after y^e &s;cripture) flee vnto y^e &s;ayd thre cytees / &amp; in one of them (at the le&s;t) be &s;aued. the cytees ben fayth / hope / &amp; charite. So than who &s;o euer do offende / &amp; yf he be &s;ory therfore / &amp; wyll folowe (by fayth) the ordinau~ce of y^e chirche / hauynge good hope in our lord / &amp; hole charite vnto y^e per&s;one / he &s;hall (w^tout doubte) be as gyltles / &amp; his pur&s;uers / y^t is to &s;aye / our &s;auyour Ie&s;u &amp; his membres wyll neuer take vengeau~ce vpon hym y^t hath taken &s;ent wary in ony of y^e &s;ayd thre cytees / fayth / hope &amp; charite. Notw^t+&s;tandynge / bycau&s;e y^e fraylty of man dothe ofte excede in correccyon / &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn wyllyng y^e &s;oueraynes &s;holde knowe them&s;elfe &amp; theyr owne defaut / addeth. Sed tame~ pete~da e&s;t venia / ab oi~m dn~o qui nouit eos quos plus iu&s;to forte corripitis: quanta beneuolentia diligatis. That is. But notw^t&s;tandynge / ye mu&s;t axe forgyuenes of god / lord of all / y^e knoweth w^t how grete benyuolence &amp; good mynde ye fauoure them / whome (perauenture more than ryght requyreth) ye done &s;o blame &amp; correcte. Here the &s;oueraynes may lerne / y^t all theyr chalen&s;es &amp; correccyons &s;holde procede of loue / more for y^e good reformacyon / than for y^e puny&s;&s;heme~t of y^e &s;ubiectes. And that al&s;o they may not excede due maner therin w^tout &s;ome offence vnto god. Take hede vnto</P>
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<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The &s;oueraynes may &s;omtyme excede due maner / by the zele of malyce agayn&s;t the &abper;&s;one. Somtyme by the zele of iu&s;tyce / but this is euer done of &s;tudy &amp; pur|po&s;e by &s;ome co~&s;yderacyon &amp; deliberacyon of wordes / but y^e other is euer w^tout deliberacyon / by ha&s;tynes or
<PB REF="93"> by to many wordes.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n origi~ali ad|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">unt&abur; Hinc lr~e q~ <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">uuntur. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">a~ q~ faciu~t pu|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">oris i~memo|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s etia~ femi|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s femine io|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ndo turpiter <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">lude~do: no~ &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s viduis<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ctis ancillis, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> in &s;eto~ &abpro;po|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;titutis: &s;z <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">no / nec a mu|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rib&abus; nuptis / <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">c a <ABBR>vginibus</ABBR> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ut facienda <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ipturis.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">his latyn is <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> the originall <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">yned vnto <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">is &s;entence. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ut amo~g you <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ay be no car|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">all loue / but al <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;i al. for &s;uche <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">lges as &s;ome <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ones among <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n &s;uche as be~ <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rgetful of ba&s;+<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ement / hone|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e &amp; good wo|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">a~hod / or that <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">n &s;hameles / <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ne v&s;e and do <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he vnto other <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ome~ vnto wo|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">en / that is to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">eane / ky&s;&s;e / <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">pe / &amp; &s;hewe <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">malite / and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">at full &s;hame <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">lly / al though <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> playe or di&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rte / &s;hold ne|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">r be done of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y pure wydo+<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> / nor of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ene &amp; vntou|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ed &s;eruau~tes <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">f god virgyns <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">at be~ ordred <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> the holy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ur+<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;e of religion <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">r yet of ma|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ed wome~ / or <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">che virgyns <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">don purpo&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">be maryed.</P></NOTE> But our lord god doth more hede and wey the entent &amp; my~de / than y^e wordes or &s;peche. And therfore y^e amendes is y^e &s;ooner made / where the entent is pure w^tout ony malyce. The lettre. No~ aute~ carnalis / &s;ed &s;pu~alis debet e&s;&s;e i~ter vos dilectio. That is. But amonge you may be no carnall loue / but all &s;pi+rytuall. Parcialite is neuer good amonge relygyous &abper;&s;ones / &s;pecyally in y^e &s;ouerayne / as to fauour one per+&s;one more than an other / bycau&s;e of kynne / cou~tree / or acqueyntaunce: nor yet for bodyly &s;eruyce &amp; plea&s;ure. But y^e fauour of religyous &abper;&s;ones &s;holde all be groun|ded in vertue / &amp; for vertu / more to loue is lawful. The carnall loue (all though it be naturall) &s;holde in &abper;fyte religyon be clene forgoten. So done we rede in y^e lyues of the olde faders / y^t many &abper;&s;ones wold neyther &s;e nor here / nor in ony wy&s;e meddle w^t theyr owne parentes ne kynne. For carnall frendes done moche hyndre the &abper;feccyon of good religyon / &amp; oft done cau&s;e grete mur|mure &amp; grudge amonge the company. But &s;e now</P>
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<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Many &abper;&s;ones done loue well theyr felowes / but y^t is for affeccyon of kynrede / or carnall acqueyntaunce. And all though &s;uche loue be not agayn&s;t holy &s;criptu+re / yet is it of lytell &abper;feccyon. For grete difference is by+twene the meryte of y^t thynge we do of our owne good wyll after y^e di&s;po&s;icyon of nature / &amp; that we do of cha+rite by y^e co~mau~dement of our lord for obedience. For y^e one is &s;pirytuall / &amp; the other carnall. And y^e &s;pirytuall loue y^t is charite / doth proue y^e religyous &abper;&s;ones to be the &s;eruau~tes of god. He &s;ayd hy~&s;elfe. In this thynge onely may all men knowe y^t you be my di&s;ciples / yf ye eche loue other. Whiche loue (yf it be holy in y^e herte)
<PB N="lxxviij" REF="93"> wyll appere by the&s;e two thynges / y^t is to &s;aye / yf we loue our fre~des in god / &amp; our foos or enemyes for god. But many ben deceyued in y^e loue of theyr enemyes / &s;ayenge &amp; &s;uppo&s;ynge they loue them well ynough / but the very profe therof is / whan we ben no thynge grudged ne greued with the welthe &amp; profyte of our enemyes / nor ony thynge gladde to here of theyr hyn|derau~ce. Charite dothe begyn at two groundes / two preceptes. The loue of god / and the loue of the neygh|bour / but this charite dothe appere &amp; &s;hewe it &s;elfe in thynges innumerable / &amp; dothe extende vnto infynyt<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> goodnes. The loue of god is co~maunded to be ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in thre maners / of all the herte / all the mynde / &amp; all for|tytude and myght. So that who loueth god perfyt|ly / and &s;o wolde plea&s;e hym / they leue no thynge vn|to them&s;elfe / but all they done gyue frely vnto hym. And the loue of the neyghboure &s;tandeth in two pre|ceptes of the two te&s;tamentes. The fyr&s;t is.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tobi. iii<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></NOTE> That ye wolde not were done vnto you / do not you vnto ony other. The &s;econde is of the go&s;pell.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. vij.</NOTE> Que vultis vt faciant vobis homines. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> what ye wolde other per|&s;ones &s;holde do vnto you / do you the &s;ame vnto them. By the fyr&s;t all malyce and euyll wyll is re&s;trayned. For whan a &abper;&s;one wyll not do / that he wolde not &s;uf|fre / he wyll no thynge noye ne hurte his neyghbour. And by the &s;econde all benignite and kyndnes is nou|ry&s;&s;hed. For whan he dothe that he wolde were done vnto hym / by that kyndnes he &s;hall &abpro;fyte his neygh|bour / and multiply charite. And &s;o in leuynge that he &s;holde not do / &amp; in doynge that he &s;holde do / he moche encreaceth all maner of vertue. For in auoydyng that he wolde not were done vnto hym / he hath hym&s;elfe
<PB REF="94"> in a good awayte that his countenau~ce or behauyour be not to hygh vnto the occa&s;yon of his neyghboure: nor that he neyther moue / ne lyghtly be moued vnto ony di&s;plea&s;ure / ne &s;ay or here ony euyll of his neygh|bour / ne ony thynge &s;peke contrary vnto good maner and edyfycacyon of vertue. Ne ony tyme de&s;yre his neyghbours goodes / wyfe / doughter / or &s;eruaunt: ne yet be negligent in ony thynge that louynge kyndnes requireth to be done. And on the other behalfe / whan a per&s;one &s;tudyeth to do that good &amp; &abpro;fyte vnto other per&s;ones / that he wold were done vnto hym / than is he euer be&s;y to do good for euyll / and for kyndnes to &s;hewe more kyndnes / to edyfye all vertue / and to de|&s;troy all vyce / and &s;o euer in correccyon to be moderate and di&s;crete / that y^e &s;ubiectes be neuer remoued from iu&s;tyce. And euer to lay all parcialite on parte / y^t none be notably fauoured before an other / excepte they be knowen of more notable vertue: ne ony more &s;traytly delte w^t than an other / excepte they be knowen more than other my&s;ordred. And yf the &s;ouerayne can not lyghtly refourme the defaute / yet make it not open yf it be preuy. And yf it be open &amp; knowen / &s;o rebuke or correcte it / that the &s;ylence or want of iu&s;tyce &s;hold not &s;eme to con&s;ent vnto the &s;ynne. And in all that they do let them beware of pryde / do no thynge for the laude &amp; pray&s;e of the worlde / but all for y^e loue &amp; honour of god So may ye &s;e &amp; perceyue that charite is in many ma+ners.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co. xiij.</NOTE> Saynt Paule. Charitas benigna e&s;t. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> Cha|rite is very gentyll / benygne / mercyfull / &amp; pyteous / &amp; charite wyll do no wronge.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. Honore &s;eruato: ne il|lo offendatur de&abus;. multo ma+gis. <ABBR>&amp;c</ABBR>.</NOTE> The lettre. Prepo&s;ito / tan&abquam; patri obediatur. multo magis pre&s;bitero / q^i oi~nt ve&s;tru~ cura~ gerit. That is. Let due obedience be gyue~
<PB N="lxxix" REF="94"> vnto the &s;ouerayne / as vnto the fader or moder: mo|che more vnto the gho&s;tly fader / ordynary / or by&s;&s;hop that of you all hath ferther charge. Here is y^e expre&s;&s;e co~maundement of obedyence / the thyrde e&s;&s;encyall of the rule / and moo&s;t princypall lady and may&s;tres / vn|to whome (as ofte we haue &s;ayd) all the other ben or|dred. This latyn (prepo&s;itus) we done engly&s;&s;he and put for the &s;ouerayne / whiche terme may well be ta|ken for a pre&s;ydent / as pryour / &s;ubpryour. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> vnder an abbot. And the terme pre&s;biter / may be taken for the heed or &s;ouerayn / vnto whome obedience is made as abbot / pryour: abbe&s;&s;e / pryoure&s;&s;e. For vnto them after ordre &amp; degre / for tyme and place / all the couent mu&s;t be obedyent. Yf than we &s;holde obey our pre&s;y|dentes as our fader and moder / what obedience &s;hold we than haue vnto our &s;ouerayn? Truly moche more &s;o moche more as the &s;ouerayne v&s;eth the place / rome &amp; per&s;one of our &s;auyour. Ergo our &s;ouerayne is ferre aboue our naturall and carnall parentes / ye as ferre (I &s;aye) as the &s;oule is aboue the body / &amp; the &s;piryte aboue the fle&s;&s;he.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exo. xx.</NOTE> But we ben bounden by the lawe of god / to be obedyent vnto our carnall parentes / and yf we &s;holde be rebellyous agayn&s;t them / we &s;holde &s;uf|fre deth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exo. xxj.</NOTE> Ergo moche more ben we bou~de vnto our &s;pi+rytuall &s;oueraynes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Num~. xij</NOTE> And that is playnly &s;hewed by Mary the &s;y&s;ter of Aaron / that for grudgynge &amp; mur+murynge agayn&s;t her &s;ouerayne Moy&s;es / was made lepre / &amp; &s;o remayned as acur&s;ed from all the company certayne dayes / vnto the tyme y^t by the prayers of her &s;ayd &s;ouerayne / her &s;ynne was forgyuen / &amp; &s;he made hole. It is good therfore that all religyous per&s;ones be well ware how they murmure or grudge agayn&s;t
<PB REF="95"> theyr &s;oueraynes / for drede of the vengeaunce of god. Of this lady dame obedyence we haue wryten vnto you more largely in y^e fyr&s;t boke of y^e e&s;&s;encyall vowes Ye &s;hall now therfore here your</P>
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<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Obedyence alone is the vertue that graffeth &amp; en|gendreth all other vertues in the mynde and herte of man.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Re. xv.</NOTE> So obedience (as &s;cripture &s;ayth) is better than &s;acrefyce or oblacyon. For by &s;acrefyce / is offred the fle&s;&s;he or body of bee&s;tes. But by obedience is the &s;elfe per&s;one hooly bothe in &s;oule &amp; body offred. Salomon &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prou. xxj.</NOTE> Vir obedie~s loquitur victorias. The obedient per&s;ones may &s;peke of grete victory. For where they &s;ubdue them&s;elfe vnto the co~maundement of an other per&s;one / in that done they vaynquy&s;&s;he them&s;elfe and wynne the victory in theyr hertes. For the co~mau~de|ment of obedyence is gyuen vnto religyous per&s;ones not for a daye or a yere / but vnto deth. And all though the religyous &abper;&s;one &s;holde neuer by obedience do euyll yet may a good dede &s;omtyme be lefte or dyfferred by obedyence / or for obedyence. Somtyme tho thynges ben co~maunded by obedyence that ben of plea&s;ure / as honour / offyce / dignite / or degre: and than yf the ap|petyte and wyll of y^e per&s;one do enclyne thervnto / the obedyence is as no thynge / of very lytell meryte. And &s;omtyme tho thynges ben co~maunded that ben gre|uous and dy&s;plea&s;aunt / and than yf the wyll &amp; de&s;yre of the per&s;one be not thervnto / the meryte is al&s;o very lytell. Therfore the very true obedyence mu&s;t in all thynges of plea&s;ure haue no wyll ne de&s;yre of the per+&s;one. And contrary / in all thynges greuous &amp; peniten+cyall / it mu&s;t haue good wyll &amp; con&s;ent / &s;o the glory &amp; pray&s;e of obedyence &s;tandeth in that it is alwaye cou|pled
<PB N="lxxx" REF="95"> &amp; knytte vnto the wyll and ordynau~ce of an other per&s;one. And the beauty of obedyence is the innocency of the mynde / whan a &abper;&s;one as a bee&s;t wyll do what they ben co~maunded or &s;et vnto. Our lorde doth a&s;&s;y|myle y^e obedient per&s;one vnto a &s;hepe / &s;ayenge.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioan. x.</NOTE> Oues mee / voce~ mea~ audient. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> My &s;hepe (&s;ayth he) wyll here my voyce / and I knowe them / and they wyll fo|lowe me &amp; kepe my co~maundement. Without doubte the per&s;one that is not innocent / &s;hall neuer truly be obedyent. And who &s;o is not obedyent / is neuer inno|cent. They mu&s;t euer be coupled togyder. The lettre. Vt aute~ cu~cta i&s;ta &s;eruentur / precipimus: vt &s;i quid &s;eruatum minus fuerit: non negligenter pretereatur: &s;ed vt emendandu~ corrigendu~&abque; / a prepo&s;ito curetur. Ad prepo&s;itum precipue pertinebit / vt ad pre&s;biteru~: cuius e&s;t maior auctoritas / referat: quod modum vel vires eius excedit. That is. We therfore done &s;traytly co~mau~de and charge you / that all the&s;e premy&s;&s;es be ob&s;erued and kepte: &s;o that yf ony artycle or poynt be not hooly kepte / it be not neglygently ouerpa&s;&s;ed / ne di&s;&s;ymuled / but that for y^e reformacyon / amendement and correccyon of the &s;ame / cure and hede be gyuen of the &s;ouerayne. For vnto the &s;oueraynes &s;hall apper|tayn / that yf ony thynge pa&s;&s;e or excede theyr wyttes or power / they &s;hewe it playnly vnto the pree&s;t / ordy|nary / or vi&s;ytour / that hath the more large auctorite. This lettre dothe moche charge the hedes and &s;oue|raynes / to gyue dylygence and to &s;e that this rule be kepte. And al&s;o yf ony poynt be broken therof and not kepte / they do due correccyon for y^e reformacyon ther|of. Alas where ben y^e &s;oueraynes of this rule? where done they dwell? In the graunges I &s;uppo&s;e / or in
<PB REF="96"> theyr gaye maner places. For in the cloy&s;ter is no rule kepte / and in &s;ome couentes they haue no rule / except it be clo&s;ed vp vnder locke and key / for &s;ome profe&s;&s;ed per&s;ones dyd neuer &s;e nor here tell of ony rule / and &s;o as they profe&s;&s;ed they wote not what / &s;o they kepe it they wote not how. But (I tell you) the hedes &amp; &s;oue|raynes &s;hall make &s;trayte accou~t therof / &amp; paye ther|fore euery peny. For vnto them belongeth to &s;e y^e rule kepte / and to do correccyon for the tran&s;gre&s;&s;yon and brekynge therof. And therfore the &s;ubiectes &s;holde not thynke the &s;oueraynes cruell nor harde herted / whan they done correct. For (as ye here may &s;e) they ben bou~+den thervnto / vnto the vtterme&s;t of theyr power. And yet ferthermore / yf it pa&s;&s;e theyr power / they be not &s;o excu&s;ed / but they ferther complayne vnto theyr &s;upe|ryours. And this poynt of the rule in many places / is moche ouerpa&s;&s;ed / &amp; lytell heded. For yf a &s;ubiecte be vpholden / and borne out by &s;eculer kynne or frendes / and &s;o be (in maner vncorrygyble and vnreformable) the &s;oueraynes / rather than they wyll dy&s;plea&s;e the &s;eculer per&s;ones / wyll dy&s;&s;ymule the defautes of the &s;ubiectes / and &s;uffre them to do what they wyll / and neyther wyll they correcte ne complayne / where (as I &s;ayd) they ben bounde vnto bothe / as the cau&s;e is gyuen / but euer in due maner / with pyte and compa&s;+&s;yon / not as a lorde and may&s;ter / but rather as a py|teous and moo&s;t charytable parent / a fader or moder / and that foloweth. But fyr&s;t here</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The preceptes and co~maundementes of this holy rule were gyuen and ordeyned to be kept in dede / and not to be onely redde or herde: how be it they mu&s;t al|&s;o
<PB N="lxxxj" REF="96"> bothe be redde and herde. And yf ony poynt be ouer pa&s;&s;ed and not kepte / it mu&s;t &s;hortly be refourmed and amended. For y^e &s;oueraynes may not negligently ouer pa&s;&s;e ony poynt without peryll and ieoperdy of &s;oule / and the &s;ubiectes haue by vowe profe&s;&s;ed and &s;worne to kepe all. The p&s;almi&s;t &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">&abpre;s. cxvi</NOTE> Tu manda&s;ti man|data tua cu&s;todiri nimis. Good lorde thou ha&s;t co~mau~+ded all thy co~mau~dementes to be &s;traytly kepte. And the apo&s;tle &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iaco. ij.</NOTE> Yf a per&s;one kepe all the hole lawe / and offende but in one poynt alone / he is culpable and gylty of all the hole lawe. Therfore it dothe apper|tayne vnto the pre&s;ydentes as kepers of the ordre and religyon / to &s;hewe vnto the &s;oueraynes: and vnto the &s;oueraynes appertayneth to &s;hewe vnto the ordyna|ry all maner of doubtes / that by the expre&s;&s;e rule be not determyned. For y^e prelates ben ordeyned in Chry|&s;tes chirche to con&s;erue and kepe the well ordred &s;ta|tutes / and to refourme that is amy&s;&s;e / and &s;pecyally that by the example of theyr wordes and werkes the lyfe and good maners of the &s;ubiectes &s;holde be edy|fyed vnto good religyon and vertue / after y^e doctryne of &s;aynt Paule / &s;ayenge vnto his di&s;ciple.<NOTE PLACE="marg">ij. Ti. ii</NOTE> Argue / ob+&s;ecra / increpa. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> Reproue thou (&s;ayth he) and praye thou or entreate / and blame &s;ome other per&s;ones. All he ment for the tyme and place / and as the mater re|quireth &amp; the &s;tate of the per&s;one: now to &s;peke &s;harp|ly / &amp; an other tyme gentylly. Reproue y^e rude / wylde / and vnre&s;tfull &abper;&s;ones. And curtey&s;ly entreate y^e meke obedyent &amp; pacyent per&s;ones. And the proude / negly|gent &amp; &s;louthfull per&s;ones <ABBR>&s;hold</ABBR> the &s;ouerayne eyther blame or correcte forthwith / and neuer dy&s;&s;ymule the defautes of the &s;ubiectes / le&s;t they fall in the daunger
<PB REF="97"> of god / as dyd Hely the pree&s;t of the olde lawe.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Re. ij.</NOTE> They mu&s;t therfore warne the hone&s;t &amp; lerned / or wy&s;e per|&s;ones / ones or twy&s;e before ony open correccyon / and the co~mune dayly tre&s;pacers y^t ben proude / frowarde di&s;obedient / and that lytel done fere or drede to offende god &amp; the &s;tatutes / they mu&s;t be &s;hortly &amp; &s;harply cor|recte with di&s;cyplynes / fa&s;tynges / and (yf it nede) by impry&s;onment.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. xix.</NOTE> For y^e wy&s;e man &s;ayth. A fole or a fro|warde per&s;one / is not corrected by wordes. And in an other place.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. xxiij</NOTE> Correcte and bete thy childe with a rodde and &s;o thou &s;halte delyuer his &s;oule from dethe. The lettre. Ille aute~ qui vobis pree&s;t: non &s;e exi&s;timet po|te&s;tate domina~te / &s;ed charitate &s;eruiente / felice~. That is. And as vnto your &s;oueraynes that ben aboue you all / let not them thynke them&s;elfe happy or well at ea&s;e for the power and auctorite of theyr dominacyon and hygh rome / but rather for the charite / good wyll and de&s;yre they haue (in our lorde) to be as myni&s;tres and to do &s;eruyce. Here appereth that I &s;ayd before / the &s;oueraynes &s;holde not thynke them&s;elfe lordes or may&s;ters ouer theyr &s;ubiectes / but rather as faders or moders.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. xx</NOTE> For (as our &s;auyour &s;ayd) Pri~cipes gen|tium dominantur co&abrum;. That is. the maner and beha|uyour of worldly prynces and pote&s;tates is that they ben extolled and enhau~ced in pryde by theyr power &amp; dominacyons: but amonge religyous &abper;&s;ones it may not be &s;o. But rather the &s;oueraynes there and &s;upe|ryours mu&s;t be as myny&s;tres and &s;eruauntes. It is an olde &s;ayenge. Vinum et magi&s;tratus / o&s;tendunt hominem. Good drynke and hygh rome / wyll &s;oone &s;hewe what the per&s;one is. For the brayne and wytte of many per&s;ones done &s;eme very good tyll they come
<PB N="lxxxij" REF="97"> vnto the &s;tronge wyne or good ale / and than ben they &s;oone gone. And the maners of many per&s;ones done &s;eme full &s;obre whyle they be vnder: but yf they come ones aboue / than they &s;hewe them&s;elfe. Take hede now vnto your holy</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The &s;oueraynes that ben gladde &amp; ioyfull of theyr power and hygh rome / ben not very &s;oueraynes / but rather (as our &s;auyour &s;ayd) mercennaryes and wa|ged &s;eruauntes / y^t haue more appetyte to haue hygh place &amp; plea&s;ure / than to edyfye and profyte the chir|che of Chry&s;t:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioan. x.</NOTE> they coueyte more to haue temporall lu+cre / than the helth of &s;oules: and more to haue tempo|rall honour / than eterne and euerla&s;tynge glory. And therfore (as our &s;auyour &s;ayd) Receperu~t mercede~ &s;uam. They receyue here theyr rewarde.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. vj.</NOTE> But the pre+lates that ben gladde and Ioyfull to myny&s;tre and do &s;eruyce for charite / tho&s;e ben very prelates / and tho&s;e done theyr offyce after the lawe and wyll of god. For they done folowe the doctryne of our &s;auyour / that came rather to do &s;eruyce / than to take &s;eruyce.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math~. xj</NOTE> And they done labour with all dylygence to brynge many &s;oules vnto our lorde: moche more glad to take charge and labour / than honour and plea&s;ure. Charite plea|&s;eth them / and not the rome ne power / and with bet|ter wyll done they &s;erue other per&s;ones / than take of them ony &s;eruyce. So &s;aynt Paule techeth / &s;ayenge. Whan I was at free lyberty / I made my &s;elfe a bon|de &s;eruaunt vnto all per&s;ones / that I myght wynne many.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co. ix.</NOTE> And yet notwith&s;tandynge he was had in due honour and reuerence of his &s;ubiectes / and &s;o &s;holde the good prelate be had of his &s;ubiectes / &amp; &s;o foloweth in the lettre. Honore coram vobis / prelatus &s;it vobis.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. coram hominib&abus;</NOTE>
<PB REF="98"> That is. Let your &s;oueraynes. in all due honour and reuerence be your prelates and aboue you all. Here ye may perceyue that by expre&s;&s;e commaundement the di&s;cyples of this rule ben bou~den to do reuerence and honour vnto theyr &s;oueraynes: and &s;o mu&s;t than fo|lowe that they ben al&s;o bou~den to loue theyr &s;oueray|nes. For as loue without honour is chyldy&s;&s;he &amp; doth appertayne vnto chyldren / &s;o is honour without loue mockery / and dothe appertayne vnto mockers &amp; &s;cor|ners. Herken now</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The &s;oueraynes mu&s;t haue due honour / bycau&s;e they in the mona&s;tery done v&s;e the rome and per&s;one of our &s;auyour Ie&s;u.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luce. x.</NOTE> So he &s;ayd hym&s;elfe. Who &s;o hereth you and dothe obey you / dothe here &amp; obeyeth me. And who &s;o de&s;py&s;eth &amp; is vnto you di&s;obedyent / dothe de&s;py&s;e and is inobedyent vnto me. The true &s;eruauntes of god wyll therfore honour in theyr pre|lates / theyr lorde and may&s;ter Ie&s;u. For who&s;e loue they toke them to be theyr may&s;ters and &s;oueraynes / whiche prelates &s;holde notwith&s;tandynge haue euer vnto our lorde a reuerent drede. And the more they be honoured outwarde / the more &s;holde they inwarde thynke them&s;elfe vnworthy &amp; moo&s;t vyle of all other. &s;o foloweth in the lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. non <ABBR EXPAN="habet">h&z;</ABBR> timore. &s;z cora~ deo.</NOTE> Timore coram deo / &s;it &s;ub|&s;tratus pedibus ve&s;tris. That is. But in reuerent dre+de before our lorde / let them lye pro&s;trate before your fete. That texte let them lye / is not referred vnto the &s;ubiectes / that they &s;hold loke for ony honour of theyr &s;oueraynes / but it is &s;poken vnto y^e &s;oueraynes / that they &s;holde (as is &s;ayd) thynke them &s;elfe moo&s;t vn|worthy / and no thynge to preferre them &s;elfe in theyr owne opynyon before god / for theyr rome &amp; offyce.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="lxxxiij" REF="98">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Sapyence &s;aythe.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Eccli.</ABBR> iij.</NOTE> The more thou arte in reputa|cyon / the more &s;holde&s;t thou meke thy &s;elfe. And in an other place.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Ecc.</ABBR> xxxi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></NOTE> The people haue made the theyr heed &amp; &s;ouerayne / be thou no thynge proude therof / but be amonge them as one of them.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Luc.</ABBR> xiiij</NOTE> And our lord in the go&s;|pell. Who &s;o dothe humble and make lowe them&s;elfe &s;hall be exalted. And who &s;o wyll exalte and enhau~ce them&s;elfe / &s;hall be brought downe full lowe. For the more lowe a &abper;&s;one be in his owne opynyon / the more hygh is he before god. Now foloweth what condy|cyons the &s;oueraynes &s;holde haue. The lettre. Cir|ca omnes / &s;eip&s;um bonorum operum: prebeat exem|plum. That is. Let the &s;oueraynes vnto the edifyca|cyon of all per&s;ones / make them &s;elfe example of all good werkes. The example of the &s;ouerayne / is the be&s;t le&s;&s;on vnto the &s;ubiectes.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Act.</ABBR> j.</NOTE> Our &s;auyour hym&s;elfe (&s;aythe &s;aynt Luke) I began fyr&s;te to werke and do well / and after to teche and preche. The good hou&s;|bonde &s;aythe vnto his &s;eruau~tes: come and let vs go vnto the felde. And the euyll hou&s;bonde &s;aythe vnto his &s;eruauntes: go you vnto the felde / and he is &s;er|ued therafter.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Ari&s;totel.</ABBR> in econo.</NOTE> &para; There was a per&s;one axed a good hou&s;bonde / what thynge wolde make an hor&s;e fatte &amp; fayre. And he an&s;wered / &s;ayenge. The eye or &s;yght of his may&s;ter. &para; An other axed what wolde make a fatte muckhepe / or a good dunghyll. And he &s;ayd. The &s;teppe of the good hou&s;bonde. The &s;oueraynes of this rule ben bounde to go before / and fyr&s;t kepynge the rule them&s;elfe / bydde theyr &s;ubiectes and co~maun+de them to folowe. But this marreth all relygyon / whan the &s;oueraynes bydde them go / and they wyll
<PB REF="99"> not go forth them &s;elfe before. Whan they bydde the &s;ubiectes do this / do that / and they no thynge wyl do them &s;elfe. They wyll take more lyberty than they wyll gyue. Our &s;auyoure complayned vpon them / &s;ayenge.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. xxz.</NOTE> They wyll put vnto y^e people greuous char|ges / but they wyll not put to a fynger / they wyll not do the lee&s;t labour / to &s;hewe the example in theyr de|des. They &s;holde (&s;ayth the lettre) make them &s;elfe example of all good werkes.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> And that: circa omnes. that is / for the charge / and vnto the cure and edifyca|cyon of all the &s;ubiectes. By that (me &s;emeth) that the &s;ouerayne &s;holde folowe the maner of &s;aynt Paule / that &s;ayd of hym&s;elfe.<NOTE PLACE="marg">j. Co. ix.</NOTE> Factus &s;um iudeis / tan&abquam; iu|deus. hijs qui &s;ub lege &s;unt / qua&s;i &s;ub lege e&s;&s;em. hijs qui &s;ine lege erant. <ABBR>&amp;c.</ABBR> I ordred my &s;elfe (&s;ayth he) vn+to y^e iewes as a iewe / to wynne them vnto them that were bounde vnto the lawe / as though I hadde ben bounde thervnto. And vnto them that were without lawe / as though I had ben lawles. I al&s;o ordred my &s;elfe vnto feble per&s;ones / as a feble per&s;one. And &s;hort+ly to co~clude / I made and ordred my &s;elfe vnto all per|&s;ones / in all thynges after theyr behauyour &amp; dy&s;po|&s;ycyon / to the entent to wynne them vnto Chry&s;t. So &s;holde all hedes and prelates do vnto theyr &s;ubiectes in all pacyence and louynge maner / not folowynge ne fauourynge them in ony &s;ynne or my&s;behauyour. For that dyd not &s;aynt Paule / but al to wynne them from vyce / or to edyfye them in vertue. Take hede vnto</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; As the &s;oueraynes done precede and go before the &s;ubiectes in ordre and degree / &s;o &s;holde they precede &amp; go before them in &s;anctite and holynes / that by theyr
<PB N="lxxxiiij" REF="99"> example of lyuynge / the &s;ubiectes &s;holde lerne how to lyue. The lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> Corripiat inquietos / con&s;oletur pu|&s;illanimes / &s;u&s;cipiat infirmos / patiens &s;it ad omnes. That is. Let the &s;oueraynes blame and correcte the vnre&s;tfull and be&s;y per&s;ones. And the feynt herted / &s;crupulous and ferefull per&s;ones / let them conforte &amp; make bolde. The infyrme / frayle / and incon&s;tau~t per|&s;ones / they mu&s;t bere with pyte and compa&s;&s;ion / and take them vnto mercy. And they mu&s;t be pacyent vn|to all per&s;ones.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> &para; A notable doctryne vnto the &s;oue|raynes / or rather a commaundement / foure &s;ynguler le&s;&s;ons. The fyr&s;t / that they do correccyon: but vnto whome? vnto the vnre&s;tfull. For they be enemyes vn+to the fyr&s;t precepte of the rule / that was / that they &s;holde be re&s;tfull / peacefull / of one mynde and wyll / of one herte and loue in our lorde. The &s;oueraynes that done rule more of charite than of power / &amp; that done gyue the good example of theyr werkes / may well &amp; rea&s;onably do correccyon. For they ben the very &s;oue|raynes of this rule: &s;o the lettre &s;heweth nexte before this le&s;&s;on. The &s;econde le&s;&s;on. Let them conforte the feynt &amp; &s;crupulous per&s;ones. The per&s;ones that done offende and make many defautes worthy correccyon / yet whan they &s;o do / not of wyll / but by fere of con|&s;cyence / and by a &s;crupulous mynde / they had more nede of co~&s;olacyon / than of eyther rebuke or correccyon For that &s;elfe pa&s;&s;yon / is vnto them more paynfull than ony correccyo~. The &s;oueraynes therfore mu&s;t by wy&s;e coun&s;eyle &amp; confortable maner &s;tudy to &s;trength them / to make them bolde agayn&s;t all &s;uche doubtfull dredes. And this is the &s;econde le&s;&s;on of dy&s;crecyon. The thyrde le&s;&s;on. Su&s;cipiat infirmos. That is. Let
<PB REF="100"> the &s;oueraynes al&s;o take y^e frayle per&s;ones vnto mer|cy. This lettre is tran&s;lated in &s;ome bokes that the &s;o|ueraynes &s;holde take y^e &s;eke per&s;ones vnto theyr cure and charge / meanynge y^e bodyly conforte of &s;uche as ben dy&s;ea&s;ed. But that is contrary vnto the mynde of the auctour / as vnto this place. For he &s;pake before of the nedes of the body / and now he &s;peketh all of the ordre of the maners and behauyour / as well of the &s;o|ueraynes as &s;ubiectes / eche vnto other. He meaneth therfore that y^e &s;oueraynes mu&s;t haue pyte and com|pa&s;&s;yon vpon y^e frayle per&s;ones. For in very dede they le&s;&s;e done offende / than the&s;e done that done tre&s;pace of purpo&s;e / or yet by neglygency / and that all though they do more often offende. For the frayle per&s;one en|tendeth euer to amende / &amp; &s;o oftentymes wyll fayth|fully promy&s;e / and yet whan y^e occa&s;yon cometh / they fall ouerca&s;t by very fraylty / and than ben they bothe &s;ory and a&s;hamed of theyr incon&s;tauncy. They mu&s;t therfore be receyued vnto mercy. I &s;aye not vnpuny&s;|&s;hed / but at y^e le&s;t whan they be puny&s;&s;hed / they <ABBR>&s;hold</ABBR> be taken to grace / and (theyr fraylty con&s;ydered) to be the more gentylly entreated / and not hagged and tag+ged by ony furious or ha&s;ty maner. And this &s;entence and expo&s;ycyon bryngeth in the fourth le&s;&s;on for the &s;oueraynes / that is to &s;ay / that they <ABBR>&s;hold</ABBR> be pacyent vnto all per&s;ones.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> This terme / all per&s;ones / is refer|red and applyed vnto the&s;e thre maners of per&s;ones / whiche (as I touched before) ben the ob&s;tynate per|&s;ones / the ignoraunt or neglygent per&s;ones / and the frayle per&s;ones / vnto all the &s;oueraynes mu&s;t be pa|cyent / and yet &s;hall they do due correccyon / accordyng vnto the defaute. The maner wherof dothe folowe
<PB N="lxxxv" REF="100"> in the lettre / as ye &s;hall here after</P>
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<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Who &s;o kepeth the rome and place of the &s;oueray|nes / may do none euyll: it becometh not them to do amy&s;&s;e: notwith&s;tandynge they may &s;omtyme &s;uffre and bere that is done amy&s;&s;e / that by theyr pacyence and mylde behauyour / they may re&s;trayne the ha&s;ty|nes of other per&s;ones. For they ben the phi&s;ycyons of the &s;oule / and therfore they mu&s;t agayn&s;t y^e pa&s;&s;yons of vyces / myny&s;tre the medycynes of vertue. So it be+longeth vnto them to &s;erche the maners of the &s;ubie|ctes / &amp; &s;o to dele with eueryche accordynge vnto theyr di&s;po&s;ycyon. The lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">a. l. libet habeat. metuen impona</NOTE> Di&s;ciplina~ libens adhibeat metuendus imponat. Et &abquam;uis vtru~&abque; &s;it nece&s;&s;arium tamen plus a vobis amari appetat &abquam; timeri / &s;emper cogitans: deo &s;e pro vobis rationem e&s;&s;e redditurum. That is. Let the &s;oueraynes al&s;o be dilygent to gyue di&s;cyplyne / and to make reformacyon / and &s;o let them do correccyon / that they be had in reuerent drede. And all though bothe loue &amp; drede be nece&s;&s;ary / yet &s;holde they coueyte and de&s;yre more to be of theyr &s;ubiectes beloued than dreded / remembrynge alwaye that for them all / they mu&s;t rendre accounte / &amp; make an&s;were before our lorde. Saynt Augu&s;tyn wyll the &s;oueray|nes &s;holde not be negligent / &s;lowe / or (as many &s;oue|raynes ben) lothe to do correccyon / but they &s;holde do it (as the lettre &s;ayth) libens / with good wyll and fa|uourably.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The origy<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> hath here<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> tuc~s. died y<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> so though &s;oueraynes<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> doynge of<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+reccyon &s;ho<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> euer be dre<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+full.</NOTE> So they may notwith&s;tandynge be had in drede / and the &s;ubiectes may well perceyue the correc+cyon to procede of charite / and for due reformacyon / &amp; not of di&s;plea&s;ure / ne for puny&s;&s;hement of the per&s;one And &s;o the appetyte of y^e &s;oueraynes &s;hall playnly ap|pere
<PB REF="101">
/ more to be of the &s;ubiectes beloued than dreded.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>&para; Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; Dy&s;cyplyne (after may&s;ter Cipryane) is an ordy|nate correccyon / or reformacyon of maners: and an ob|&s;eruaunce or folowynge of the olde religyous faders. It is therfore nece&s;&s;ary / that the &s;oueraynes of rely|gyon &s;holde be wy&s;e and well ordred in all di&s;cyplyne and religyous behauyour. For than may they iu&s;tly and of ryght teche di&s;cyplyne and good maner / whan they lyue therafter them&s;elfe / and whan they gyue the example in them&s;elfe of that thynge they wolde haue kepte and exercy&s;ed in other.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hebre. xij.</NOTE> I co~maunde you (&s;ayth the apo&s;tle Paule vnto the Hebrew&s;e) that ye per&s;euer / and do co~tynue in di&s;cyplyne / that our lorde god may offre hym&s;elfe vnto you as vnto his childre. And the chylde (we knowe well) is blamed of the fa|der whan he dothe amy&s;&s;e / or els he &s;holde not be ac|counted as a chylde. It is therfore nece&s;&s;ary that eue|ry &s;ouerayne myny&s;tre vnto the &s;ubiectes bothe loue and drede. Drede &s;holde they myny&s;tre and &s;hewe vn|to the proude / hygh mynded / &s;tyffe &s;tomacked and re|bellyous per&s;ones. And vnto the meke and lowly per|&s;ones / &amp; &s;pecially vnto them that with gladde mynde dylygence &amp; deuocyon / done &s;erue god / and kepe theyr ob&s;eruau~ces and duty / &s;holde they &s;hewe loue and fa|uour. And yet all though (as is &s;ayd) bothe loue and d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ede ben nece&s;&s;ary / y^e &s;oueraynes &s;holde alway haue appetyte and de&s;yre to be more of theyr &s;ubiectes be|loued than dreded. For the more the prelate is beloued the better is he herde &amp; obeyed. And that &s;eruyce that is done of loue and with good wyll / doth more plea&s;e our lorde / than the &s;eruyce that is done for drede. And
<PB N="lxxxvj" REF="101"> therfore our &s;wete lorde &amp; moo&s;t gentyll may&s;ter &s;ayd vnto his di&s;cyples.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioan. x.</NOTE> I wyl not (&s;ayth he) call you now &s;eruauntes / but frendes. For our lorde wyll not that we loue hym as a bonde &s;eruaunt dothe his lorde / but rather as a chylde y^e fader. And that we kepe his com+mau~dementes / not for drede of payne / but for the loue of Iu&s;tyce. The &s;oueraynes &s;holde therfore alwaye thynke and remembre they haue a &s;ouerayne &amp; iudge ouer them&s;elfe / vnto whome they mu&s;t gyue a &s;trayte accounte for theyr &s;ubiectes / and therfore &s;holde they be the more dilygent in gyuynge hede vnto theyr rule and charge. For who &s;o dothe well remembre the la&s;t ende / wyll doubtles gyue y^e more hede and dylygence vnto theyr cure and charge. Wherof the wy&s;e man &s;ayth.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><ABBR>Eccli.</ABBR> vi</NOTE> In omnibus tuis / memorare noui&s;&s;ima tua / et ineternum non peccabis. In all that appertayneth vnto the / remembre well thy la&s;t ende / and thou &s;halt not for euer offende god / that is / thou &s;halt not fynal|ly in conclu&s;yon offende god. The lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Texte.</NOTE> Vnde &amp; vos magis obediendo: non &s;olum ve&s;tri / &s;ed etiam ip&s;ius mi&s;eremini: qui inter vos quanto in loco &s;u&abper;iori / tan|to in periculo maiori ver&s;atur. That is. And therfore &s;holde you by more lowly obedyence / haue pyte and compa&s;&s;yon / not onely vpon your &s;elfe / but al&s;o vpon your &s;oueraynes. For the more hygh place and rome they bere and occupy amonge you / the more ben they in peryll and ieoperdy. &para; Many per&s;ones in religyon &s;et moche by theyr owne labours / and &s;o haue pyte and compa&s;&s;yon vpon them&s;elfe / and &s;tande &s;o moche in theyr owne fauour / that they &s;uppo&s;e and thynke veryly theyr meryte and de&s;eruynge is aboue the &s;o|ueraynes. And therby in iu&s;tyfyenge them&s;elfe / they
<PB REF="102"> take the more vpon them / and ben the le&s;&s;e obedyent. And that wyll not &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn in ony wy&s;e / but that rather the &s;ubiectes &s;holde con&s;ydre the grete pe|ryll and ieoperdy / wherin the &s;oueraynes ben / that mu&s;t not onely gyue accou~t for them&s;elfe / but al&s;o for all the &s;ubiectes. And therfore &s;holde they be the more meke and lowly vnto theyr &s;ouerayne / and haue com+pa&s;&s;yon vpon theyr labours / although they &s;eme le&s;&s;e more than vpon theyr owne. Herken now vnto</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Saynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; They ben &s;urely in grete peryl that ben &s;et in hygh rome of gouernaunce. For the hygher the degree be / the more peryllous is the fall. For more &s;hall be requi|red of them that done receyue moche / than of them that lytell haue receyued. A grete ieoperdy to an&s;we|re for the lyfe of other per&s;ones / and theyr owne bothe And a grete labour and charge / to prouyde for all ne|ce&s;&s;aryes. And &s;o is it bothe ieoperdy / labour &amp; charge vnto the &s;oueraynes to &s;aty&s;fye all partyes / bothe in &s;pirytuall thynges and temporall. And &s;o to cure and hede them&s;elfe / that they be not neglygent of theyr &s;ubiectes. And &s;o agayne to thynke vpon them / that they forgete not them&s;elfe. And &s;o to myny&s;tre tem|poralytees / that in no wy&s;e they waxe colde and dull in &s;pirytualytees.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; And thus endeth the expo|&s;ycyon of holy &s;aynt Hugh.</HEAD>
<P>&para; The re&s;ydue is the lettre / with our poore notes. The lettre.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">. l. hec oi~a <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">um dile|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">tione.</NOTE> Donet igitur deus: vt ob&s;eruetis hec oi~a tan&abquam; &s;piritualis pulcritudinis amatores / &amp; bono odo|re Chri&s;ti de bona co~uer&s;atione fragrantes: non &s;icut
<PB N="lxxxvij" REF="102"> &s;erui &s;ub lege: &s;ed &s;icut liberi &s;ub gratia con&s;tituti. That is. Almyghty god therfore grau~t / that all you may ob&s;erue and kepe all the&s;e co~maundementes and iniunccyons / as louers of &s;pirytuall beauty / and by good and holy co~uer&s;acyon &s;mellynge of the good and moo&s;t plea&s;aunt odour &amp; &s;mell of Chry&s;t / not as bonde &s;eruauntes vnder the lawe / but as louynge chyldre vnder the lyberty of grace. Whan &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne had ended all the preceptes and co~maundementes of his rule / and ordred al&s;o bothe the &s;oueraynes &amp; &s;ub|iectes therunto. He now here dothe &s;hewe vnto what ende / and for what cau&s;e / or wherfore the dy&s;cyples of this rule &s;holde perfourme and kepe the &s;ame / that is to &s;ay / for the loue of god / and vnto the edyfycacyon of the neyghbour / for that is the loue of y^e neyghbour. In the begynnynge he &s;hewed how we ben bounde to loue god and our neyghbour. And here he wylleth that for tho&s;e two cau&s;es we &s;holde vndertake the&s;e labours / and kepe the&s;e preceptes. And that the di&s;cy+ples of this rule may kepe y^e &s;ame / he doth fyr&s;t praye &s;ayenge. Our lorde god graunt. For lawes and ordy|naunce made / and not kepte / ben all voyde. And than dothe he adde the cau&s;e (as we &s;ayd) vnto the mery|tes of the kepers.<NOTE PLACE="marg">In y^e or<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+gynall<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> with lo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> as the<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+uers of<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+rytual<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+auty. &amp;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></NOTE> Sayenge / as the louers of &s;piry|tuall beauty. Spirytuall beauty is our lorde and his heuenly Ioye. Than who &s;o kepeth y^e rule as louers of &s;pirytuall beauty / done kepe it for the loue of god. And than foloweth / and as &s;mellynge / that is / as &s;u|che per&s;ones that done &s;mell by holy con&s;eruacyon of the odour and &s;mell of Chry&s;t. The odour and &s;mell of Chry&s;t / is his lyfe and behauyour. To &s;mell than of Chry&s;t / is to folowe his example of lyuynge / and
<PB REF="103"> that is the edifycacyon &amp; very loue of the neyghbour. The&s;e lawes &amp; &s;tatutes than / mu&s;t (after the mynde of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne) be kepte for the loue of god / and (as we &s;ayd) vnto the edifycacyon of the neyghbour. And not as bonde caytyues done kepe the lawes of theyr lordes / ne yet as the chyldre of I&s;rael kepte the olde lawe for fere and drede of payne / but as louynge chyldre done kepe the co~maundementes of theyr py|teous and kynde parentes / hauynge theyr fauour &amp; grace. So mu&s;t y^e di&s;cyples of this rule take all theyr labours for loue / bycau&s;e they &s;tande vnder a double lawe of grace / that is to &s;ay / the co~mune lawe of chry+&s;tyanite / and al&s;o the lawe of perfeccyon / and moo&s;t hygh meryte / the lawe of holy relygyon. The lettre. Vt autem vos in libello hoc / tan&abquam; in &s;peculo po&s;&s;itis in&s;picere / ne per obliuionem aliquid negligatur:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">. l. negli|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">atis.</NOTE> &s;e|mel in &s;eptimana vobis legatur. That is. And for by|cau&s;e you in this lytell boke may &s;e and beholde your &s;elfe / as in a myrrour or gla&s;&s;e / let the &s;ame boke ones in the weke (le&s;t ony thynge pa&s;&s;e you by negligence) be redde amonge you. Lawes can not be kept / except they be knowen / and therfore ben the prelates &amp; pre|chers bounden to &s;hewe vnto the people the lawe of god / that they may knowe it and kepe it. Soo wyll &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn this rule be redde / and &s;o knowen &amp; kepte. And yet that thynge that is well knowen / may &s;oone be forgoten / and &s;o negligently ouerpa&s;&s;ed / ex|cepte it be well renewed and grounded in the memo|ry. And therfore he wylleth it be redde euery weke ones / whiche commaundement is full euyll kepte in many places / &amp; in &s;ome places no parte therof kepte. For neyther is it redde ones in the weke / ne yet ones
<PB N="lxxxviij" REF="103"> in the yere: ne in &s;ome place ony tyme / they neuer herde tell of ony rule / but as other lyued there before they folowe without rule. For they ben clene out of rule. Kepe you the rule I praye you / and let it be redde ones a weke at the lee&s;t. And I thynke it may be mo|che profytable for you to rede this boke euery quarter ones / or thre tymes a yere at the lee&s;t in your fratour. For &s;aynt Augu&s;tyne dothe a&s;&s;ymule this rule vnto a myrrour or gla&s;&s;e / wherin euery per&s;one may &s;e to re|fourme and redre&s;&s;e / yf ony thynge be amy&s;&s;e.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE> It is an olde &s;ayenge / ofte rekenynge holdeth longe felaw|&s;hyp. Than do you reken and make account with our lorde / whan ye loke vpon your owne werkes / &amp; that is to loke in this gla&s;&s;e / where ye may &s;oone &s;e &amp; per|ceyue wheder ye haue done your duty or no / and than what ye &s;hall do / the lettre &s;heweth. Vbi autem vos inueneritis ea que &s;cripta &s;unt facientes: agite domi|no gratias / bonoru~ omnium largitori: vbi autem &s;ibi quicun&abque; ve&s;trum / vidit aliquid dee&s;&s;e: doleat de pre|terito / caueat de futuro / orans: vt &s;ibi debitum dimit|tatur / et in tentationem non inducatur. Amen. That is. And where ye fynde and perceyue ye haue perfour+med &amp; fulfylled all that in this rule ben wryten / gyue you vnto our lorde / the gyuer &amp; rewarder of all good|nes due thankes therfore and pray&s;e. And where ony of you done fynde and perceyue they lacke or wante ony poynt of the &s;ame / let them be &s;ory for that is pa&s;|&s;ed / and be ware of that is to come / be&s;echynge our lorde theyr defaute may be forgyuen / and they neuer be brought vnto the con&s;ent of &s;ynne. Amen. &para; By re|dynge this rule / ye may (as in a myrrour or gla&s;&s;e) &s;e and beholde your &s;elfe. And yf ye fynde no thynge a|my&s;&s;e
<PB REF="104">
/ but all ye &s;uppo&s;e well / a&s;crybe neuer that in ony wy&s;e vnto your &s;elfe / but vnto our lorde / &amp; thanke his goodnes / and knowlege it came of his &s;pecyall grace. And yf ye perceyue ye haue not done your duty be dy&s;content with your &s;elfe / and thynke veryly ye wyll ordre your &s;elfe to amende. Than be&s;eche our lord of mercy for all your offences and negligence / and that ye neuer wylfully and by delyberacyon fall vn|to the con&s;ent of &s;ynne. This rekenynge oftentymes made / &s;hall not onely delyuer you from &s;ynne / but al|&s;o obteyne you many &s;ynguler graces / and &s;pecyall loue of our lorde god and moo&s;t &s;wete &s;auyour Ie&s;u / who euer pre&s;erue you all in the dayly encreace of the &s;ame by the profyte of religyon. Amen.</P>
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<TRAILER>&para; Valete.</TRAILER>
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<TRAILER>&para; Thus endeth this poore labour of the rule of &s;aynt Augu&s;tyn / bothe in latyn and engly&s;&s;he / with our &s;ymple notes / and the profytable ex|po&s;icyon of y^e holy &s;aynt Hugh de &s;ancto Victore by the wretche of Syon Rycharde whytforde.</TRAILER>
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<P>&para; Imprynted at London in Flete&s;trete / at the &s;ygne of the Sonne / by me Wynkyn de Worde. The yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC.xxv. the xxviij. daye of Nouember.</P>
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