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DIEGO. At down, With favoring breeze she stood to sea. DON CAESAR. But never One prey contents the Moor; say, have they told Of other spoil? DIEGO. A herd that pastured near Was dragged away. DON CAESAR. Yet from the convent's bound How tear the maid unseen? DIEGO. 'Tis thought with ladders They scaled the wall.
'The Living Dead, whose sober brow Oft shrouds such thoughts as thou hast now, Whose hearts within are seldom cured Of passions by their vows abjured; Where, under sad and solemn show, Vain hopes are nursed, wild wishes glow. Seek the convent's vaulted room, Prayer and vigil be thy doom; Doff the green, and don the gray, To the cloister hence away!"
Joanna and the child they can come and visit me there. I have not much to leave; whatever that may cost...." "That is my affair, or the convent's," cried the abbess. "Matters are not so bad as that," said the old man smiling. "I can pay for my own share of the business; your revenue belongs to the poor, noble Mother. You will find more than enough in this wallet, good Gibbus.
Joanna and the child they can come and visit me there. I have not much to leave; whatever that may cost. . . ." "That is my affair, or the convent's," cried the abbess. "Matters are not so bad as that," said the old man smiling. "I can pay for my own share of the business; your revenue belongs to the poor, noble Mother. You will find more than enough in this wallet, good Gibbus.
Do what you will there, and thank the King who frees you from the incumbrance of silly vows and from the circle of a convent's walls." "To give us liberty to starve outside of them. Sir, do you understand your work? For hundreds of years we have sat at Blossholme, and during all those generations have prayed to God for the souls of men and ministered to their bodies.
As you will have occasion to pass a night beneath the convent's roof, Herr von Willading, in your journey to Italy, a little honor shown to the honest and pains-taking clavier will not be lost on the brotherhood, if these churchmen have even a decent respect for the usages of their fellow-creatures."
Ah misery, dear misery, sweet misery!" This mournful song was no sooner ended than supper was served; and the company proved themselves good trenchermen. Hilarius caught sight of the seditious friar making short work of the Convent's victuals, and marvelled to see him in a place to which he had given so evil a name. Martin was unfeignedly glad to see the lad, and listened intently to his tale.
My lord took up the other cup. "This glass," he continued, "as green as an emerald, freckled inside and out with gold, and shaped like a lily, was once amongst a convent's treasures. My father brought it from Italy, years ago. I use it as he used it, only on gala days. I fill to you, sir."
Alban's the tithes of Eglingham, in Northumberland, to help them to make their ale better "taking compassion upon the weakness of the convent's drink," as the chronicler tells us. The small beer of St.
"My son, my son," said the Prior, and his voice was very pitiful, "thou art indeed in evil case; let me shrive thee ere it be too late." He motioned the others to stand back, and raising the heavy head upon his shoulder, bent close to catch the whisper of the parched lips. At first no sound came, and then a hoarse word reached him. "The Convent's hens!"
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