Nam quosdam fratrum ex monasterio suo, qui eum gratia germanae caritatis ad regiam urbem secuti sunt, in tutamentum coepit observantiae regularis habere; videlicet ut eorum semper exemplo, sicut ipse scribit, ad orationis placidum litus, quasi anchorae fune restringeretur, cum incessabili causarum saecularium impulsu fluctuaret, concussamque saeculi actibus mentem inter eos quotidie per studiosae lectionis roboraret alloquium.
For he began to have with him certain brethren of his monastery (which for the sake of brotherly love followed him to the imperial city) for the better keeping of the monastic observance; namely, that alway by their example (for so he writeth) he might be fastened as with the cable of an anchor to the peaceful shore of prayer, whensoever he were tossed by the restless rushing of worldly cares, and might strengthen his mind by the daily communing of diligent reading with them, whensoever it should be shaken with worldly affairs.
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