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mine enemies, visible and invisible, in the hour of my death. Amen.

And if the sick man or woman may, nor can not, say the orisons and prayers beforesaid, some of the assistants[1] ought to say them before him with a loud voice, in changing the words there as they ought to be changed. And the sick person, as far as he hath the usage of reason, ought to hearken and pray with his heart, and desire as much as he shall mowe; and so praying, render and yield his soul to God and without fail he shall be saved.

CHAPTER V

[an instruction unto them that shall die]

Yet ought it to be known that every person having the love and dread of God in himself, and also the cure of souls, ought much busily and diligently induce and admonish the sick person constituted in peril of body or of soul, that first, hastily and principally, he purvey for him, without any delay, for remedy of medicine ghostly and spiritual. For it happeth oft that the infirmity and sickness of the body taketh his beginning of[2] the languor of the soul. And therefore the pope commanded straitly to all leeches and physicians of the body that to no manner sickness they minister nor give bodily medicine till that they have admonished and warned them to get and take

  1. i.e bystanders.
  2. i.e from.