Quamvis de hac re diversae hominum nationes diversa sentiant, atque alia custodire videantur; Romanorum tamen semper ab antiquioribus usus fuit, post admixtionem propriae coniugis, et lavacri purificationem quaerere, et ab ingressu ecclesiae paululum reverenter abstinere.
Though of this thing divers countries are of divers minds, and some keepeth one way, some another; yet the manner of the Romans was ever of ancient time, after the company of their own wives, both to purify themselves in the bath and of reverence awhile to forbear coming into the church.
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