Ipse autem extra auctoritatem propriam episcopos Galliarum iudicare non poteris; sed suadendo, blandiendo, bona quoque opera eorum imitationi monstrando, pravorum mentes ad sanctitatis studia reforma: quia scriptum est in lege: Per alienam messem transiens, falcem mittere non debet, sed manu spicas conterere et manducare.
But you yourself outside your own authority shall not be able to give judgment upon the bishops of France; but by persuading, by courteously entreating, by giving example also of good works for them to follow, reform to the pursuits of holiness the minds of the evil disposed: for why? it is written in the Law: He that passeth through another mans field shall not thrust his sickle in the corn, but rub the ears with his hand and so eat them.
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