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The barons groaned, the shavelings wept, while near and nearer drew, As death-birds round their scented feast, the raven flags of Rou. Then said King Charles, "Where thousands fail, what king can stand alone, The strength of kings is in the men that gather round the throne.
Devil take it, we haven't been bowling over the roads at this hour of the day to eat you, Jeanbernat. The old man calmed down a little. 'I don't want any shavelings here, he grumbled. 'They're enough to make one croak. Mind, doctor, no priests, and no physics when I go off, or we shall quarrel. Let him come in, however, as he is your nephew.
"What mean you?" she repeated adding with a sinister smile, "in your zeal, Sir Abbot, you are forgetting that my men are within call." "So, madame, are mine," was his astounding answer, and he waved a hand towards the array of monks, all standing with bowed heads and folded arms. At that her laughter rang shrill through the chamber. "These poor shavelings?" she questioned.
The monasteries devote themselves to the education of little monks. They are taught from an early age to hold a wax taper, wear a frock, cast down their eyes, and chant in Latin. If you wish to admire the foresight of the Church, you should see the procession of Corpus Christi day. All the convents walk in line one after the other, and each has its live nursery of little shavelings.
Ye are sibbe to each other, some five times removed; and therefore an old man at Rome saith that ye ought not to wed. When the shavelings obey the old man at home, and put aside their own wives and frillas , and abstain from the wine cup, and the chase, and the brawl, I will stoop to hear of their laws, with disrelish it may be, but without scorn.
It is a hamlet on a hilltop, surrounded by mountains covered with fir being the ancient Cartusia whence our neighbors the monks took their name; the Great Chartreuse lies close by, an hour's walk perhaps: this hamlet is in their district, 'the Desert, as they call it; their walks are confined to it, and you meet on a certain day a procession of white-clothed shavelings, absolved from their vow of silence, and chattering like magpies, while vigorously engaged in butterfly-hunting.
"I never saw any good come to a gentleman from those accursed books," said the Nevile, "fit only for monks and shavelings. But still, for your father's sake, though I am ashamed of the poorness of the gift " "No; God be with you, sir, and reward you." She stopped short, drew her wimple round her face, and was gone.
Wherefore go to school, speak respectfully of thy betters, the monks and shavelings, who with us are often brave captains and sage councillors, and learn that a full head makes a weighty hand." "Thy name, young knight?" said the ecclesiastic, in Norman French, though with a slight foreign accent.
That letter is courteously addressed "To the Generation of Anti-Christ, the Pestilent Prelates and their Shavelings within Scotland, the Congregation of Jesus within the same saith." The gentle Congregation saith that, if the clergy "proceed in their cruelty," they shall be "apprehended as murderers."
He paled, and half raised the gauntleted hand in which he carried his whip. But he controlled himself, and barked an order to his followers: "Ride on, there!" When they had drawn off a little, and we were alone again, "I do not lie, sir," he said. "It is a practice which I leave to shavelings of all degrees." "If you say that she took aught from you, then you lie," I repeated.
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