-yea,
for some years, once after another--continually been tempted to do
it, and yet hath, by grace and good counsel, well and virtuously
withstood that temptation, and been in conclusion clearly delivered
of it. And their tribulation is not known abroad and therefore not
talked of.

But surely, cousin, a horrible sore trouble it is to any man or
woman whom the devil tempteth with that temptation. Many have I
heard of, and with some have I talked myself, who have been sore
cumbered with it, and I have marked not a little the manner of
them.

VINCENT: I pray you, good uncle, show me somewhat of such things
as you perceive therein. For first, whereas you call the kind of
temptation the daughter of pusillanimity and thereby so near of
kin to the night's fear, methinketh on the other hand that it is
rather a thing that cometh of a great courage and boldness. For
they dare with their own hands to put themselves to death, from
which we see almost every man shrink and flee, and many of them we
know by good proof and plain experience for men of great heart and
excellent bold courage.

ANTHONY: I said, Cousin Vincent, that of pusillanimity cometh
this temptation, and very truth it is that indeed so it doth. But
yet I meant not that only of faint heart and fear it cometh and
growth always. For the devil tempteth sundry folk by sundry ways.

But I spoke of no other kind of that temptation save only that one
which is the daughter that the devil begetteth upon pusillanimity,
because those other kinds of temptation fall not under the nature
of tribulation and fear, and therefore fall they far out of our
matter here. They are such temptations as need only counsel, and
not comfort or consolation, because the persons tempted with them
are not troubled in their mind with that kind of temptation. but
are very well content both in the tempting and in the following.
For some have there been, cousin, such that they have been tempted
to do it by means of a foolish pride, and some by means of anger,
without any fear at all--and very glad to go thereto, I deny not.
But if you think that none fall into it by fear, but that they
have all a mighty strong stomach, that shall you well see to be
the contrary. And that peradventure in those of whom you would
think the stomach more strong and their heart and courage most
bold.

VINCENT: Yet is it marvel to me, uncle, that it should be as you
say it is--that this temptation is unto them that