quin potius animam male sibi consciam et per horas ad recordata poenalis vitae debita contremiscentem frequentissimis tuis illis et valentissimis orationum munerare suffragiis, precum peritus insulanarum, quas de palaestra congregationis heremitidis et de senatu Lirinensium cellulanorum in urbem quoque, cuius ecclesiae sacra superinspicis, transtulisti, nil ab abbate mutatus per sacerdotem, quippe cum novae dignitatis obtentu rigorem veteris disciplinae non relaxaveris.
Nay rather, my sin-laden soul, trembling as hour after hour it recalls the trangressions of a guilty life, craves the gracious help of those unceasing and potent prayers of yours; for you are versed in the orisons of the island brethren, and you have brought them from the training-ground of the hermit congregation and from the conclave of the monks of Lrins right to the city in which you control the religious life of the church; in your episcopal office you remain an abbot still, for you have not made your new dignity a pretext for relaxing the rigour of the old discipline.
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