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aldind cid fogluasa iyiA. Hoenacht ind 

 accoljar co>«bi todiusead accotir in 

 membris bes beith focbet6ir son lasan 

 p/-(?ind. Baoes beith inda ligiu eiiir 

 codlad 7 een eotlatt. Bes iwmagaba 

 ceit CO matain mco morbrig laisim and 

 acbt ni eowetestar dond accobar ma 

 dogabtAar chetamus a fit is imfolang 

 galir son 7 f ice secda brond A mesmgud 

 do neucb tra buddesin la eolus ind fita 

 arnara' focbund galii' mat robecc. Xarap 

 altram dualchi mad romor. Xi iaxum 

 notlortnigetar 7 nat furea galir. A 

 timmarcad fo reii- na ndaonnnc^i ar is 

 ecsamaU reim daonacA^a caich. IS &ed 

 file irriagail doi>«ine abbatis romse is 

 feiT lais 7 is inildiu do aTlmi?^ neich 

 i;id fit bee mi» qjuam i;id fit mor de 

 tuari anmi'n Fobitlun is ferr do fulang 

 duine 7 da blatb ambecc min 7 is liigui 

 dodiisci ind daon«c/i< h'i miaceobar c[«««/ 

 amm6r den gantuarai 



§ 64. Andand as crdd tra Aon chacli 

 fy/sambi immalde de aos r43''] sruith. 

 ne»»chomaite(;A<doib im cao?«cl6d p/'aindi 

 no a tdrmacA 7 temet ipsaw* castigas do 

 traothad do tole 7 do accobair 7 ni 

 airigetdr sam on. Anda leosow wimurgu 

 isarabstinait deitsiu. IS inildiu laisiom 

 iar«w nemchomitecht doibsiom cid cr«d 

 doib 7 coch be a sruithe indas ni bes 

 epiltiu anme dit 7 indas nad pende a 

 ehinta Dogniat arale immiwgo guchoib- 



butter (that is, the half loaf and the 

 quarter or other quantity), and the 

 [proper amount of] drink, even though 

 human weakness may stir desire, so that 

 5 there is an excitation of desire in his 

 members (perhaps it may happen im- 

 mediately with meals, or it may happen 

 in bed, whether he be asleep or awake, 

 or perhaps he may escape it until 



10 morning) — he counts it no great matter, 



provided there be no yielding to desire. 



If a man's allowance be suddenly 



diminished, that will cause sickness and 



diy internal piles. Everyone should 



15 regulate his pittance for himself, 

 knowing the proper amount, that it 

 cause not sickness, if it be too little ; 

 neither nourish vice, if it be too much : 

 as much then as suffices him, and does 



20 not induce sickness. It should be 

 limited according to men's natures, for 

 the course of nature differs in each man. 

 This is what is laid down in the Eule of 

 Doimine, Abbot of Rome; he holds it 

 better and safer for a man's soul to use 

 a small light pittance rather than a large 

 pittance of coarse food : for the small 

 light diet is better to sustain a man 

 and make him healthy, and it excites 

 human nature to iU desires less than 

 the large diet of coarse food. 



§ 64. "When it is grievous for anyone 

 in regard to such elderly people as live 



25 with him not to indulge them with 

 a change or increase of diet, while 

 thou art chastising thyself to subdue 

 thy desires and propensions, and they 

 do not observe this — (they suppose, 



30 however, that it is by way of abstinence 

 on thy part) — he considers it safer in 

 such a case not to indulge them, even 

 though it be grievous to them, and 



' Mead ami rob 



