Et quidem, ubi opportunum comperiebat, peccantes regulari disciplina coercens, sed magis tamen ingenita diligendi consuetudine sedulus admonens, ne qui peccare vellet, et limpidissimam vultus eius lucem nubilo sibi suae inquietudinis abscondere.
It is true that, when he found it convenient, he would check sinners by the discipline of the rule, but with the natural affection he was wont to shew he would rather diligently admonish them, that none should be willing to sin, and cloud the fair light of the abbots countenance with the shadow of their own disquietness.
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