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aran acht is moo [41*] fogni a tab/rt 

 cloib isind tiuglagin Fecht robai at- 

 conmmc ind tapp roboi i«d hi ropo olc 

 a mblath inda reclesaoli . liiid soot iaxum 

 doclium in coc' 7 dogeni fadesin ind 5 

 tiuglagi?j allae si» dobert tnan for- 

 c/'idi de usoi ar chuid each lae sin' 7 

 rob^;'bi ind usee am dLschaid^ a t>'ian sin 

 la bruith 7 doratt cnoc de imbim ar 

 chuid cacA ae 7 roberbi ar ind usei 7 is 10 

 iarMOT dorad min aire is amlaich sin c&cli 

 di'a roairgsetftr som iar?</» caomclod a 

 mblatha 7 nicowfetadar cid fodruair uar 

 rombi ind fit cetne atcitis ci« c?«ftscug?/r? 

 Antan tra dontio aitherriuch blath 7 15 

 beogud awmarbad cacA la sel 'vxximi do 

 ambeogud indtale dia marbad ind crutli 



§ 53. Aos trog dawo nad ebat amffi7 

 each manip mall* beti occae 7 dia ndeine 20 

 galar gabail ara f ual mani tiasat immacA 

 is deithbir laisim cid oomarlecther 

 f oj-aib do danl immacA amarap galar doib 

 gabail foraib acht ropa techtae adliisat .i. 

 ni argara itid di'ob. Mad f o roebaidecht 25 

 imm;wgo no?? permittit?»- ire. 



§ 54. IS ferr dawo lais 7 is inilliu 

 doneoch na rofaomse coibsena neich mani 

 pendea areir acht ni bes etir la neoch do 

 tsJoiri fair di maith cen airitiw a cobsen 30 

 si qwis Mero sua pecoata alicui coti&ii&iur 

 {ve\ e) 0^ lanpendait fair no a indarpae 

 mani peuda. 



managed, without their knowledge, by 

 telling his servant privately, " Let a 

 seland be brought to them in theii' 

 pottage or on bread" (but it is more 

 usual to bring it to them in the pottage). 

 Once it happened that the abbot who 

 was in lona saw that the recluses had 

 a bad colour. Thereupon he went to the 

 cook and himself made the pottage for 

 that day. He added one-third of water 

 to the daily allowance and boiled 

 the water. When this third had boiled 

 away, he put a lump of butter on each 

 man's allowance, and boiled it on the 

 water, and then put meal over it, and 

 so he did every day. Then they noticed 

 the change in their colour, and knew 

 not what had caused it, since they saw 

 the usual ration unchanged. So when 

 their colour came back and they revived, 

 he continued alternately to mortify and 

 revive them from their dying state after 

 this fashion. 



5 53. Now as to invalids who do not 

 drink like other people, if they do not 

 loiter over it, and if retention of urine 

 causes disease unless they go out, he 

 thinks it reasonable that they should be 

 allowed to go out, lest the constraint 

 upon them should induce disease ; 

 always provided that they drink a 

 proper amount, that is, as much as 

 quenches their thirst. If, however, 

 excessive drinking be the object, they 

 are not allowed to go out. 



§ 54. Now he thinks it better and 

 safer that one should refuse to receive 

 confessions from anyone, unless he does 

 penance at [the confessor's] bidding; but 

 one should do [the sinner] all the good 

 that lies in one's power, short of re- 

 ceiving his confession : if, however, a 



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