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XVIII
OF THE RELIGIOUS WHO WERE CONQUERED BY SLOTH[1]
After a While some of
the Religious began to
sigh most lamentably for the*
- ↑ In this terrible picture of Religious life at its lowest ebb, some allowance must be made for the fervid imagination and righteous wrath of the holy writer ("quidam sanctus doctor hujus sanctae Paupertatis professor et zelator strenuus"). But even with sloth, gluttony, intemperance, greed of gain, hypocrisy, and ungodliness running riot in a whole Community, it is profitable to the historian to note that there is not a hint of unchastity, the truth being that a Community wholly
