whiche man adversitee mighte enpeyren; for that god wol nat
suffren him to travaile, to whom that travaile nis nat covenable.
Another man is parfit in alle vertues, and is an holy man, and
negh to god, so that the purviaunce of god wolde demen, that
it were a felonye that he were touched with any adversitees; so
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that he wol nat suffre that swich a man be moeved with any
bodily maladye. But so as seyde a philosophre, the more excellent
[by me]: he seyde [in Grek], that "vertues han edified the body
of the holy man." And ofte tyme it bitydeth, that the somme of