This Work Asks...

And therefore for God's love beware of sickness
as much as thou well mayest, so that this be not
the cause of they feebleness, as far as thou
mayest. For I tell thee truly, that this work
asketh a full great restfulness, and a full whole
and clean disposition, as well in body as in soul.

- The Cloud of Unknowing,
anonymous 13th Century English author -