Discourse

 1  Marc |     that they should go on to continence, and from continence to
 2  Marc |       to continence, and from continence to virginity, when, having
 3  Marc | openly drawing His hearers to continence and chastity, sings on this
 4  Marc |    and sisters, it went on to continence; and we have now left for
 5 Theoph|       of child-bearing and of continence; for it is written, "Upon
 6  Thal |      lest, professing perfect continence, ye be constantly tempted
 7  Thal |      giving the preference to continence. For, taking himself as
 8  Thal |      I have to say respecting continence and marriage and chastity,
 9 Thall |   impatient of the control of continence as a driver, who checks
10 Agathe|     their works, the light of continence was not extinguished among
11 Agathe|     the light of prudence and continence, full of ethereal splendour.~
12 Arete |    here to profess purity and continence, and there to pollute it
13 Arete |      show that he who retains continence, though concupiscent, excels