, caveant sibi a
malo visu et frequentia mulierum et nullus cum eis
consilietur solus. Sacerdos honeste loquatur cum eis
dando penitentiam vel aliud spirituale consilium._

Text of the _Speculum_, 189 ff.

_Omnes fratres ubicunque sunt et vadunt caveant se a malo
visu et frequentia mulierum et nullus cum eis concilietur
aut per viam vadat solus aut ad mensam in una paropside
comedat. (!!) Sacerdos honeste loquatur cum eis dando ...
etc._

This passage is sufficient to show the superiority of the text
of the Speculum, which is to be preferred also in other
respects, but this is not the place for entering into these
details. It is evident that the phrase in which we see the
earliest friars sometimes sharing the repast of the sisters and
eating from their porringer is not a later interpolation.

[2] _Tribul._, 12b; _Spec._, 54b; _Arbor._ V., 3; _Spec._, 8b.

[3] Cf. _cap._ 17 and 21.

[4] 2 Cel., 3, 136.

[5] See below, p. 354, text in the _Firmamentum_, 19 ff.;
_Speculum_, Morin, tract. iii., 214a ff.; cf. _Conform._,
137 ff.

[6] _Cum facit (subditus) voluntatem (praelati) dummodo benefacit
vera obedientia est. Admon._, iii.; _Conform._, 139_a_, 2.--_Si
vero praelatus subdito aliquid contra animam praecipiat licet ei
non obediat tamen ipsum non dimittat._, Ibid.--_Nullus tenetur
ad obedientiam in eo ubi committitus delictum vel peccatum.
Epist._, ii.

[7] 2 Cel., 3, 89; _Spec._, 29b; _Conform._, 176b, 1; Bon., 77.

[8] _Per caritatem spiritus voluntarii serviant et obediant
invicem. Et haec est vera et sancta obedientia. Reg._, 1221, v.

[9] _Tribul._, Laur. MS., 14b; _Spec._, 125a; _Conform._, 107b, 1;
184b, 1.

[10] Wadding gives it (_Epist._ xvi.), after the autograph
preserved in the treasury of the Conventuals of Spoleto. The
authenticity of this piece is evident.

[11] This plural, which perplexed Wadding, shows plainly that
Brother Leo had spoken in the name of a group.

[12] This date for the new communications between them seems
incontestable, though it has never been proposed; in fact, we
are only concerned to find a time when all three could have met
at Rome (2 Cel., 3, 86; _Spec._, 27a), between December 22, 1216