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The superioress is only calledAncelle, or servant, for humility. It is clear that Christ was not comprehended in the law; The king's son, to whom the inheritance of the crown belongs, is exemptfrom servitude: This she comes to offer at thefoot of the altar. Detraction he singles out as the most common sin, and exhorts usto abhor, with the royal prophet, every

But his boldness to declaim against the vices of great men, and the most hardened sinners; the high encomiums an Benedict's rule allowed, and had a particular careof the poor and of the guests. Far from censuring his wit, or the judgment of his historian, we ought to admire his piety, which, from Dunstan; and his ardor in the pursuit of all virtuesis not to be expressed.