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The rule of the most blissed Father Saint Benedict patriarke of all munkes; Regula. English
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Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino.; Gray, Alexia.; Brussels (Belgium). Our Blessed Lady the Perpetuall Virgin Mary (Abbey of Benedictine nuns)
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Signe then by theiâ— voyces neither may any of them presume to speake either of that wich is reade or of any thing els that noe occasion may bee giuen to your ghostly enemy except peraduenture the Superiour will say some what breifely for their edification lett the Reader take some litle pittance in bread and drinke before shee beginn to reade lest peraduenture her fasting night bee ouer greuious to her and afterwards lett her take Refection with those of the kitchin and the other Seruants The Sisters must not read according to their order but onely those that can best edify others by their reading Of the quantitie of their meate CHAPTER 28. VVEE beleiue that two boyled pittances may serue for their dayly Refection in euery Month of the yeare both one the day when the Fast and when there is noe Fast and in respect of the infirmities which may bee incident to diuers of their Complexions that those which cannot eate of the one may make their repast of the other therfore lett two boyled pulmentaryes or pittances suffice for all the Sisters and if there bee any Apples or new Fruytes then make them a third dish of the same one pound of bread must bee their dayly allowance whether they make onely dinner or both dinner and Supper and if they are to receaue their Supper lett the third parte of their pound bee reserued by the Cellarier for their Supper if their labour happen to bee greater then shall it bee in the Abbesses will and power to augment it as shee shall thinke good hauing especially care that all excesse and surfeting bee eschewed that the Religious might neuer bee troubled with indigesture For nothing is more contrary to a Christian then gluttony As our lord himselfe sayeth see that your harts bee not ouer charged with surfeiting and dronkennesse lett not the same quantity bee obserued to the younger sort but rather lesse then those that are greater obseruing frugalitie in all things lett all abstaine precisely from eating flesh of foure footed beasts except those that are sicke and Feeble Of the measure of their drincke CHAPTER 29. EVERY one hath a proper gift from God one after this manner and another after that aÌ„d therefore the measure of other Folks dyett is appoynted by vs with a certayne kinde of scruple and perplexitie not with standing considering the weaknesse of those that are sicke wee beleiue that a pynte of wine may suffice for euery one a day lett them vnderstand that they shall haue a peculier reward vppon whom our lord shall bestow the gift of abstinence But if either the necessitie of the place or their trauyll or the heates of the Summer shall require more lett that bee remitted to the arbitrement of the Superiour who must alwayes duely consider that it bee done without saciety and dronckennesse Althoughe wee reade that wine is noe drincke for those that lead a Monasticall life yet because wee cannot soe perswade these of our tyme at lest wise in this sort lett vs yeald there vnto that wee neuer drinke our sill but moderately for wine maketh euen the wise to become Apostataes where the necessitie of the place soe requireth that the afore sayd measure may not bee had but either much lesse or none at all lett theÌ„ which dwell in those places blesse our lord and beware of Murmuration all wayes warning you in the speciallest sort wee cann that the Sisters euer liue free from all Murmuration At what howers the Sisters must take their refection CHAPTER 30. FROM Easter to whitsontide the Sisters must take their dinner at the sixt hower and their Supper at night But froÌ„ whitsontide forward through the whole Summer let them fast wednesday vntill the Nynth hower except they labour much or that the excessiue heates doe much molest them but vppon other dayes they dyne at the sixt hower the which tyme of dynning at sixt may bee contynued either when they labour oâ— when the heats of the Sommer are excessiue great and lett all these things remayne in the prouidence and discretion of the Abbesse who must soe wisely temper and dispose all things that the Soules of her Sisters may bee saued and that they may doe their dutyes without murmuring But from the â—es of September vntill the beginning of â—nt the Sisters must dine at the Nynth In â—nt vntill Easter they must take their Refeâ—oÌ„ at Euening which Euening must bee soe â—nsidered that those wich eate may not â—ely neede Candle light but moreouer â—at all thinges may bee finished within the â—y light and at all Seasons of the yeare the â—ower of Supper and of their refection â—ust bee soe contynued that by the light of â—e day all things may bee wel dispatched Of Silence in the night CHAPTER 31. AL wayes the Sisters must haue care to keepe silence but especially in the â—asen of the night and therefore at all tyâ—es whether fasting or dining if it bee a â—me to dyne in ymmediately after they â—aue risen from Supper lett them sitt dowâ—e togeather all in one place and lett one â—eade the Colations or liues of the holy Faâ—ers or some what els that may edefy the â—earers but lett them not reade at that tyme â—e siue bookes of Moyses or the bookes of â—e kings for it wil bee litle proâ—itable for â—ose that are of smale Capacitie at that tyme to heare that parte of Scripture but rather lett them reade it at other tymes But if it bee fasting day a litle after Euen song lett them goe to the lecture of the sayde collatioÌ„â— as wee haue said and after foure or fiue leaues haue beene read or as the hower will permit all meeting togeather by the space of the sayâ— lecture if any bee occupyed about any busâ—nee enioyned her by the Superiour lett her then come alsoe and when all are asseÌ„bled lett them make an end and goe to complyne and after none may speake vnto any about any thing for if any bee found to breake this Rule of silence let her bee seuerely punished except it bee vppon the arriuall of some guesse or that the Abbesse should commaund any thing to bee done which notwith standing must bee done with all decency and moderation Of those that come late to the Seruice of God and to the Table CHAPTER 32. LETT euery one runn with all speede leauing what soeuer worke is in her hads soe soone as shee shall heare the Signe to bee giuen vnto the deuine Seruice yet with grauity that scurrilitie may finde â—oe entertaynment among you Therefore â—eware that nothing bee preferred before â—he Seruice of God for if any come not to Mattines before the Gloria of the 94 Psalme â—ee sayd with Psalme for this cause wee will haue sayd in a long aÌ„d leisurely maÌ„ner â—ett her nott stand in her owne order but â—ither the last of all or in some other place â—hich the Abbesse shall appoynte for such â—egligent Sluggerds that soe shee may bee â—eene of