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The monasteries and nunneries are turned into dwelling-places for the rich folk and favourites of the court." She told them of the tournaments held in the great street called "Chepe;" of the pageants on the river; the bull-baiting, bear-baiting, and morris-dancing, and the plays at the theatres. She had an entranced audience of two until Morgan and Jeffreys returned from their ramble.
'Oh, swear not, Cicely mumbled, 'all the world knoweth thee to be that make of fool. 'I would well to get me made a nun but first I will bring nunneries back from across the seas to this dear land. Cicely laughed again for a long and strident while. 'You will come to no nunnery if you wait till then, she said. 'Nuns without their heads have no vocation.
For, by the immediate consecration of four hundred bishops, and a countless number of priests, he betrayed a disposition to multiply an idle and unqualified priesthood; and by the construction of convents and nunneries, and spending the last of his days in a solitary cave, he showed that he was ready to foster the monastic spirit of his age.
But to return to the clergy. While the monasteries and nunneries are going to the ground in superstition-saturated Spain; while eager workmen are demolishing the last hiding-places of monkery, and letting the daylight into places that have well kept the frightful secrets of three hundred years, and turning the ancient cloister demesne into public parks and pleasure-grounds, the Romish priesthood here, in free Bavaria, seem to imagine that they cannot only resist the progress of events, but that they can actually bring back the owlish twilight of the Middle Ages.
The rippling undercurrent of satire is always there; but it is Chaucer's own peculiar satire mellow, amused, uncondemning, the most subtle kind of satire, which does not depend upon exaggeration. But the historian knows; he has all sorts of historical sources in which to study nunneries, and there he meets Chaucer's Prioress at every turn. Above all, he has the bishop's registers.
Monasteries and nunneries could not be constructed fast enough, although they contented themselves with the lightest fabrics wattles being the ordinary materials for walls, and slender laths for roofs. Nor was this an ephemeral ardor, like a fire of stubble or straw, flashing into a momentary blaze, to relapse into deeper gloom.
It is by no means always mere regard for the securing of the necessaries of life which has brought them to the thankless and toilsome occupation. We have all read of nunneries in which women immured themselves, anxious to sequester themselves from all association with the outer world and to devote themselves to a life of penance and devotion.
I am starting the revolution, because only a revolution can open the doors of the nunneries." "Ay!" sighed Basilio, clasping his hands. "You've come late, too late!" "Why?" inquired Simoun with a frown. "Maria Clara is dead!" Simoun arose with a bound and stood over the youth. "She's dead?" he demanded in a terrible voice. "This afternoon, at six. By now she must be "
I think there are ten convents and three nunneries within and without the walls of Nice; and among them all, I never could hear of one man who had made any tolerable advances in any kind of human learning. All ecclesiastics are exempted from any exertion of civil power, being under the immediate protection and authority of the bishop, or his vicar.
Here let me remark, that since I left the nunnery, I have heard of another class of people who find it convenient to have a slide in their door; and if I am not very much mistaken, the character of the two houses, or rather the people who live in them, are very much alike, whether they are nunneries of private families, Catholics or Protestants.
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