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Phil. I will do it, and that in few words.¹ First that ye may unfeignedly have Humility engrafted in your breasts, it is expedient that we consider, what ye are of your selves. As touching your body, ye are men. Now what other thing is man concerning his body, but only,² as S. Bernard saith,³ a stinking sperm or seed, a sack of dung, & the meat of worms. Consider this deeply with your selves, and it shall cause you to delight but little in your body, be it never so strong, valiant, fair, goodly, pleasant in aspect, procere & tau•l. It is, saith S. Bernard, nothing but a stinking sperm or seed, a sack of dung, & the meat of worms. What mean we than ⟨image 35⟩to be sumptuous in the adorning & garnishing of the body?⁴ God to cover our nakedness at the beginning gave us cotes of Leather. S. John Baptiste also according to the first appointment of God,⁵ went clad in a Camels skin with a girdle of leather about his loins,⁶ But leather & cloth both can not suffice us at this time, be it never so fine & costly, except we add thereto all kinds of silks & velvets. But what do I speak of these things? Gold, Silver, Pearl, precious stones, Ouches & what not is now and days worn even of inferior persons, when the poor members of Christ have neither wherewith they may cloth themselves, nor yet comfort their hungry and thirsty bodies. O lamentable case. And what shall I say of the manifold & strange fashions of the garments, that are used now a days? I ⟨image 35⟩think Satan studieth not so much to invent new fashions to bring christen men into his snare,⁷