By his rule he obliged allhis monks to assiduous manual labor in the spirit of penance: he allowedthem the use of no cattle to ease them at their work in tilling theground. What do I here, my God, distant from thee,separated from thee? And to those about him: Weep not, my children;must not the will of God be done? One suggesting to him the prayer ofSt. 15, 16, 17. His body was interred atLilleshult, in Shropshire; but afterwards translated to Derby, where hewas honored with great devotion as patron of the town, on the 19th ofMarch.
Quel est le meilleur Gouvernment, &c. The critics find the like supply for restoringparts of these ancient versions also in the spurious homilies in theappendix of this volume, compiled by some other ancient Greek preacher. See Malmesbury, Brompton, abbot of Jorval, inYorkshire, and Ranulf Higden, in his Polychronicon, published by Gale. That he ought to have been admonished by them, but his charitywould not suffer him to be silent: wherefore he prevents them, byadmonishing first, that both might meet in the will of God.
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