Part, Chapter

 1    1, 3 |   devotion.~In one 'twas said, "Abstinence profits not;~Sincerity in
 2    1, 3 |       thyself into the pangs of abstinence."~In one 'twas said, "Give
 3    1, 7 |    gains health from practicing abstinence is safe;~The poor disciple
 4    1, 9 |      that desert (of thoughts).~Abstinence is the prince of medicines,~
 5    1, 9 |         only aggravates a scab.~Abstinence is certainly the root of
 6    1, 9 |      root of medicine;~Practise abstinence, see how it invigorates
 7    5, 3 | concupiscence there could be no abstinence.~Where no antagonist, what
 8    5, 3 |       endurest not the pains of abstinence~And fulfillest not the terms,
 9    5, 10|        the power of fasting and abstinence to subdue the carnal lusts
10    5, 12|        that of a child.~Age and abstinence have added infirmity to
11    5, 12| infirmity to infirmity,~And his abstinence has yielded him no rejoicing.~
12    6, 1 |    their experience and vows of abstinence according to the text, "