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Habes opes, facile tibi est indigentibus victus subsidia ministrare. Quod luxuriae parabatur, virtus insumat; nulla nuptias contemptura timeat egestatem. Redime virgines, quas in cubiculum salvatoris inducas, suscipe viduas, quas inter virginum lilia et martyrum rosas quasi quasdam violas misceas; pro corona spinea, in qua mundi Christus delicta portavit, talia serta compone. Laetetur et adiuvet vir nobilissimus, pater tuus; discat a filia, quod didicerat ab uxore. Iam incanuit caput, tremunt genua, dentes cadunt et frontem obscenam rugis arat, vicina est mors in foribus, designatur rogus prope: velimus nolimus, senes sumus. Paret sibi viaticum, quos longo itinere necessarium est. Secum portet, quod invitus dimissurus est, immo praemittat in caelum, quod, ni caruerit, terra sumptura est.
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