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When God offending, Who's advanced
Thee now so much. His arm's not maim'd
Or shorten'd tow'rd thee: sinfulness
Of life He'll blot when once reclaim'd

Thy heart. Ask pardon: readiness
Our Lady'll show her nobleness
Is still thy cry: to her appeal.
Thy saints, too, on thee'll fav'ring glance.
No more on thee sin's slumber steal,

Most Christian, frank, kingdom of France.

P. 62, line 20. Committing no transgression about guests in life, to

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its end to come.

25. Mark no man, question no man; for the sight

Of strangers is unusual here, and cold

The welcome by this people shown to such.

(Cowper.)

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jecture, I think you exotics.

8. Error of a most unskilful Burgundian.
10. If he even were a Burgundian, yet unwisely would
thy arrogance ascribe the name of his nation as a
reproach to him; since the breath of the Lord
breathes where He will and on whom He will,
and the Lord's is earth, and all who dwell upon it.
15. Whom by way of opprobrium you name a Burgun-
dian, as if God could not have His servants in
Burgundy.

18. Receive the priestly garment by which charity is
understood; for God is open to increase for thee
charity and perfect work.

25. To stranger any one.

33. God says, "Depart :" the laws forbid to go,

And he who leaves is deem'd his country's foe. 38. For many have well conducted their own and the public affairs far from their fatherland: many who spent their life at home are therefore reprobated.

CHAPTER IV.

THE ROAD OF THE COMMONALTY.

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41. All honour ye: the brotherhood love ye.

32. For to be 'custom'd to a life with equals
Is better

35. Live to thyself, and far the great names fly.

last two. Not well agree, nor in one seat abide

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Greatness and love.

22. Almost no man of the nobles favours our industry : by no endeavours of ours can we allure their goodwill: as if by birth and kind they were separated, so do they differ from us in mind and will.

18. From pride of life free us, O Lord.

21. As to what, in fine, are Christians by themselves?

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29.

He will not, I think, be a legitimate Christian

who is not a brother or a son.

33. An ill for gift you ask.

35. This is mine and my brethren's privilege to have

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no privilege on earth, but to obey all and account ourselves lower than all.

73, 2. Virtue consists in the middle of things.

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6. It behoves a private man to live on equal terms with his fellow-citizens, neither grovelling and abject, nor extolling himself; and to wish those things in the commonwealth which are quiet and respectable.

40. If they have made thee ruler, do not be puffed up : be among them as one of them.

28. Rather to be saved in a lowly station than endan

gered in a high one.

37. Yes, truly, if in the fear of God they have resolved to walk, they are afflicted more than poor men.

4. Not without great virtue can a smiling fortune be borne.

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24. The cobbler and the financier.

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Are a weak rampart for a tower;
For with the great 'twould best be firm,
And, great, be 'stablished by the less.

But 'tis not possible of these

The sense to teach th' unwise.

6. In dearness of brotherhood mutually loving, in

honour mutually preventing.

11. All in house of heaven dwell in most noble fellowship: they dwell in most orderly disparity, in most agreeing dearness. Such is that brotherly citizenship.

24. Wherefore they ought not either to demand a personal and principal fortune, or to refuse a common

one.

37. For the trade and common good of the people. 80, 15. Patriot as he was, he had been all his life touched

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81, 1. Good men's distinction is not to hate persons but

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with the misery of the people.

faults.

30. Almighty and eternal God, and our unlimited and infinite Lord, I suppliantly beseech Thy divine Majesty, through the merits, death, and passion of Jesus Christ, our Good, Thy Son, and through the merits of His most holy Mother, that Thou wouldst be propitious, and have pity on Thy Christian people and save them.

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38. That he would pity His poor little creatures.

41. Lord, for Thine infinite goodness pity Thy Christian

people.

10. That Thou wouldst vouchsafe to preserve all Chris

tian people redeemed with precious blood.

12. We beseech Thee, hear us.

13. That He would pity His people.

39. I have not paid honour nor reverence to my bro

thers and sisters from Eve and from Adam, for I

have prized none other besides myself only.

84, 8. All workmen are employed in a mean art.

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11. Fishmongers, butchers, cooks, sausage-makers,

24. Courteous of mouth, hand to the hat,

33. Unanimously with the first chiefs of all my domi

anglers.

13. It is not very blameable.

Costs little and is good.

nion, noble and ignoble.

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24. Holy rusticity.

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rustics all.

44. Shepherds are we from our childhood till now, both we and our fathers.

13. You too, if lawful, O plebeian hands,

Receive our songs red with repulse's blush.
-22, Note. Of the Government of Rustics, or of the Duty,
Virtues, Manners, and Praises of Agricultural
Christians.

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90, 18. God Himself made little and great.
Note. Art of always rejoicing.

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39. At whose proposal of holy warfare come not only free men, but also for the most part of servile condition, or on account of this rather to be freed. They come also out of rustic life, and out of the exercise of workmanship, and out of plebeian toil, so much the more happily as more strongly reared: if these be not admitted, 'tis a serious fault.

91, 34. If so thou thinkest, thou ignorest the whole way of glory. To be a dear citizen, to deserve well of the commonwealth, to be praised, to be respected, to be beloved, is glorious. But to be feared, and to be an object of hate, is invidious, detestable, weak, and corrupt.

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40. O those who ought to go to-day into the heavenly paradise, ought to have a fiery chariot already prepared. The fiery chariot is the fiery force of charity.

17. The brotherhood love ye.

92,

93, 1. But if it happen in that wise life that in affluent plenty of all things he consider and contemplate, with greatest leisure, all that is worth knowing; yet if the solitude be so great that he cannot see man, let him depart out of life.

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20. An ass invited to a wedding where water is drunk, ought to carry it thither.

25. Honouring similarity and equality.

31. Many things are common to citizens among themselves, the market, temples, porticoes, roads, laws, rights, judgments, suffrages, besides customs and familiarities, and many things and principles shared with many.

38. Because in the face often kindness is denoted.

94, 18. For it is not the places that show men honourable,

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32. Wherefore he was familiar with this court.

95, 34. They very often preferred ignoble men's manliness

to nobility's sluggishness.

97, last line. To all one rest from works, one toil to all.

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P. 99, line 5,9. So as one of the people.

24. He used common clothing.

100, 7. Therefore let this forsaken and untilled and shut-up

path be now left to boughs and shrubs.

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40. Greatness of mind, removed from human intercourse and society, must be a certain wildness and barbarism. So it is that association and intercourse

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