t I have suffered already, with some other
considerations upon my part besides--rehearse you therefore the
griefs and pains that you think in this tribulation possible to
fall unto you. And I shall against each of them give you counsel
and rehearse you such occasion of comfort and consolation as my
poor wit and learning can call unto my mind.

VINCENT: In good faith, uncle, I am not wholly afraid in this case
only for myself, but well you know I have cause to care also for
many others, and that folk of sundry sorts, men and women both, and
that not all of one age.

ANTHONY: All that you have cause to fear for, cousin, for all of
them, have I cause to fear with you, too, since almost all your
kinsfolk are likewise kin to me. Howbeit, to say the truth, every
man hath cause in this case to fear both for himself and for every
other. For since, as the scripture saith, "God hath given every man
care and charge of his neighbour," there is no man who hath any
spark of Christian love and charity in his breast but what, in a
matter of such peril as this is, in which the soul of man standeth
in so great danger to be lost, he must needs care and take thought
not only for his friends but also for his very foes. We shall
therefore, cousin, not rehearse your harms or mine that may befall
in this persecution, but all the great harms in general, as near as
we can call to mind, that may happen unto any man.

III

Since a man is made of the body and the soul, all the harm that any
man can take, it must needs be in one of these two, either
immediately or by the means of some such thing as serveth for the
pleasure, welfare, or commodity of one of these two.

As for the soul first, we shall need no rehearsal of any harm that
may attain to it by this kind of tribulation, unless by some
inordinate love and affection that the soul bear to the body, she
consent to slide from the faith and thereby do herself harm. Now
there remains the body, and these outward things of fortune which
serve for the maintenance of the body and minister matter of
pleasure to the soul also, through the delight that she hath in the
body for the while that she is matched with it.

Consider first the loss of those outward things, as being somewhat
less in weight than the body itself. What may a man lose in them,
and thereby what pain may he suffer?

VINCENT: He may lose, uncle, money, plate, and other movable
substance (of which I should somewhat lose myse