Chapter

 1 For |  FOREWORD~OFTEN the hearts of men and women are stirred, as
 2 II  |      rivals, and some of them men of influence among the great
 3 II  |       This he had done, or so men said, in order that he might
 4 VI  |    cast down even the noblest men to utter ruin. And in order
 5 VII |      who have stood out among men as sincere philosophers.
 6 VII |  their lives were called wise men, but he, on being asked
 7 VII | sobriety and continence these men lived it is not for me to
 8 VIII|   again hold up my head among men, when every finger should
 9 VIII|      in such abomination that men thus maimed are forbidden
10 IX  |  large convocation of learned men should determine, on the
11 X   |      the most miserable among men. Indeed that earlier betrayal
12 XI  |       and the crowded ways of men. And so, as Quintilian says,
13 XII |       their fear of these two men. ~ God is my witness that
14 XIV |       this iniquity among all men that those who wish to have
15 XIV |   angel (Acts viii. 27). Such men, in truth, are enabled to
16 XIV |       likewise in the eyes of men. Within himself each one'
17 XIV |    Methinks the spite of such men as these my enemies would
18 XIV |         Why, finally, do such men refrain from slandering
19 XIV |       placed in charge of the men, abbesses now are given
20 XIV |  accept the same rules as the men. Yet in these rules there
21 XIV |      such women exercise over men, the more easily can they
22 XV  |       I do not seek to please men. For if I yet pleased men
23 XV  |     men. For if I yet pleased men I should not be the servant
24 XV  |     who have been pleasing to men have been confounded, for
25 XV  |       says: 'If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant
26 XV  |     no longer seeks to please men, and so is made Christ's
27 XV  |      Wherefore rightly do all men say: "Thy will be done."