92. To Abbot Baldwin.
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other and to himself. Nor should your prayer for me turn cold because mine for you cannot burn equally. Whoever loves anyone or profits him should know that he profits him self more than the other. Now, it is much more important for him to hold on to that very charity than to distinguish himself to the other through his charity. What charity can make possible is granted to the latter only temporarily, whereas that same charity is granted to the former in this world and whatever is due will be repaid to him in the world to come.
I commend to your paternal charity and charitable pater nity our brothers and yours whom we are sending to England1 so that, whenever necessary, they may be sus tained by your help and guided by your counsel. May their lives be examined by your diligence and approved or cor rected by your criticism. c. 1080.
NOTES 1. See Epp 90, 92, 93, 94, which were probably sent at the same time.
92. TO ABBOT BALDWIN.
Anselm recommends the monks he is sending to Saint Neots to Abbot Baldwin's kindness and charity.
TO HIS LORD AND REVEREND FATHER, ABBOT BALDWIN1: BROTHER
ANSELM, WISHING THAT HE MAY LIVE A LIFE HOLY IN THIS WORLD
AND BLESSED IN THE NEXT.
ALTHOUGH I KNOW that I have deserved nothing from your holiness except through your goodwill alone, yet your well-known kindness causes me to expect it, so that, when the need is great, I do not doubt it would be appropriate for me to solicit it of you. Indeed I acknowledge that my will is prepared to render you obedience should your pater nity demand to have anything done by my lowliness. In