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 mowe; and that he enforce him to have voluntary displeasure for his sins for the love of God; and that he resist his evil inclination used, in which he hath before taken delectation; and that he do pain to have displaisance as much as he shall mowe, howbeit that it be short. But to the end that he run not into despair [there] ought to be proposed to him and laid before [him] the things that were said in the second part of this present treatise upon the temptation of desperation. He ought also to be admonished to be couraged and strong against all other temptations there declared. Also be he admonished to die as a very and true Christian man (or woman); and that he take heed that he be not bound in the bond of excommunication; and that with all his might he submit him to the ordinance of our Mother, Holy Church, to the end that he be saved.

Item if the sick man have long space of time, and that he be not oppressed of hasty death, the assistants ought to read before him histories and devout orisons, which before he delighted and took pleasure in; and men ought to remember him of God's commandments, to the end that he think the more profoundly if he could find anything in himself that he hath against the said commandments commised and trespassed. And if he be so sick that he hath lost the usage of speech, and hath his knowledge whole and entire, he ought to answer to these things by some sign outward, or by whole consenting of heart, for that sufficeth to his salvation.