Nakedness is thought by some to possess, of itself, a degree of sanctity, [391], & seq.
Account of several of its practitioners, ibid.
The strong arguments of Cardinal Damian in its favour, [389].
Is after all but an incomplete act of penance, [395].
Navarre (the Tales of the Queen of), quoted, [188], [330], [331].
Nuns, their confinement and amorous visions, [107], [108].
Settled days on which they are to inflict disciplines upon themselves, [120], [121].
Power of the Abbess to inflict disciplines upon them, [167], & seq.
Cases in which she is directed to use that power, ibid.
The spirited manner in which certain Nuns assert the honour of their Convent, [322], & seq.
O.
Orbilius (the flogging), [71], [160].
Ovid, his advice to Lovers, [341].
Again quoted, [407].
P.
Pardulph (St.) affords an instance of voluntary discipline, in early times, [198].
Pavillon, his verses to the praise of Iris’s Bum, [286].
Penance, or Penitence, is a Sacrament among Catholicks, [22];
its essentials, ibid.
The hundred years penance, what it is, [203], & seq.
Is sometimes performed in twenty days, ibid.
Was but a trifle for Rodolph of Eugubio, and Dominic the Cuirassed, ibid.
The Widow Cechald likewise performs it, [221].