Now as to speak of bodily pain, it is in prayer, in wakings, 5160 in fastings, and in virtuous teachings. Of orisons ye shall understand, that orisons or prayers is to say a piteous will of heart, that redresseth it in God, and expresseth it by word outward, to remove harms, and to have things spiritual and durable, and sometimes temporal things. Of which orisons, certes in the orison of the Pater noster hath our Lord Jesus Christ enclosed most things. Certes, it is privileged of three things in its dignity, for which it is more digne 5161 than any other prayer: for Jesus Christ himself made it: and it is short, for 5162 it should be coude the more lightly, 5163 and to withhold 5164

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