PRAYER.
Lady: I offer you, together with the bouquet of
gillyflower the vanilla, emblem of continence and the
restrain that I promise to put over all my passions.
Receive my flower and grant that my flesh may be
controlled by the holy fear of God.
1. This plant fills the whole garden with a very strong
fragrance; its flower has no beauty, but it serves to adorn the
bouquet and perfumes it. It can not stand by itself, it needs
someone to support it.
II. Continence
2. Temperance, as the …
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