monk-hit

Updated: May 25, 2025

Know then I have been like a fish out of water in all those great dungeons. You straightway levant with some old shaveling: so you see not my purgatory." "Forgive me! I have been selfish." "Ay, ay, I forgive thee, little one; 'tis not thy fault: art not the first fool that has been priest-rid, and monk-hit. But I'll not forgive them my misery."

Charles Reade - The Cloister and the Hearth