[Donatus moralisatus]

alongside its verb.

If, indeed, you spend so much time in the evening in feasting, drinking, or other such pleasure, that because of excessive sleep you cannot rise in the morning to hear Mass or to exercise any other good work, thus changing night into day and vice versa, without a doubt you do not place the adverb rightly alongside its verb.

The comparison of this adverb is to be made thus. The rich should give alms more freely and generously than the poor, in proportion to how much richer they are. Thus is the comparison to be made among them: those who possess knowledge, power, or dignity should do according to what they are able, some more, some less.

One person can give gold; another, cold water; another, a word of consolation. One [serves] by providing assistance, another by teaching. One is strong and can keep all things; another is infirm and needs mercy so that a dispensation may be made for him. One burns with such charity that he considers little whatever he suffers; another is so infirm