D were disposed for it. None did awake them, none did constrain them to
eat, drink, nor do any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it.
In all their rule, and strictest tie of their order, there was but this
one clause to be observed: _Fay ce que vouldras_. Because men that are
free, well born, well bred, and conversant in honest companies, have
naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions
and withdraws them from vice, which is called honor. Those same men,
when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept
down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were
inclined to virtue, to shake off the bond of servitude; for it is
agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden. JOHN
CALVIN Born in France in 1509, died in Geneva in 1564; studied in Paris
and Orleans; became identified with the Reformation about 1528; banished
from Paris in 1533; published his "Institutes," his most famous work, in
Latin at Basel in 1536, and in Fre
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