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you? ' --- 'Look at our pictures and books,' they said, and we will tell you, good Father, how we spent the last evening. These are stories of godly children and holy families and romantic sacrifices made in old or in recent times by great and not mean persons; and last evening our family was collected and our husbands and brothers discoursed sadly on what we could save and give in the hard times.' Then came in the men, and they said, What cheer, brother? Does thy convent want gifts? ' Then the friar Bernard went home swiftly with other thoughts than he brought, saying, This way of life is wrong, yet these Romans, whom I prayed God to destroy, are lovers, they are lovers; what can I do? '
The reformer concedes that these mitigations exist, and that if he proposed comfort, lie should take sides with the establishment. Your words are excellent, but they do not tell the whole. Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everything they give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am not so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit. What you say of your planted, builded and decorated world is true enough, and I gladly avail myself of its convenience; yet I have remarked that what holds in particular, holds in
