For to gather life’s roses, unscathed by the briar,

Is granted alone to the Barefooted Friar.

The Barefooted Friar

I’ll give thee, good fellow, a twelvemonth or twain, To search Europe through, from Byzantium to Spain ; But ne’er shall you find, should you search till you tire, So happy a man as the Barefooted Friar.

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