On the different functions of modesty. How it
should qualify both speech and silence, accompany chastity, commend our
prayers to God, govern our bodily motions; on which last point
reference is made to two clerics in language by no means unsuited to
its object. Further he proceeds to say that one’s gait
should be in accordance with that same virtue, and how careful one must
be that nothing immodest come forth from one’s mouth, or be
noticed in one’s body. All these points are illustrated
with very appropriate examples.