“Thou art utterly irregular,” said the Prior; “one of those disorderly men, who, taking on them the sacred character without due cause, profane the holy rites, and endanger the souls of those who take counsel at their hands; lapides pro pane condonantes iis , giving them stones instead of bread as the Vulgate hath it.”

“Nay,” said the Friar, “an my brainpan could have been broken by Latin, it had not held so long together.⁠—I say, that easing a world of such misproud priests as thou art of their jewels and their gimcracks, is a lawful spoiling of the Egyptians .”

“Thou be’st a hedge-priest,” 46 said the Prior, in great wrath, “ excommunicabo vos. ”