But I soon had him advertised of our great danger.

Whereupon he went directly to the window of his chamber of reception and looked out on the court-yard.
"Ring the abbey bell for full service," he commanded; "throw open the outer gates and great doors, and lead these horses to the secret crypt beneath the mortuary chapel." For the Abbot Tobias was a man of the readiest resource, and in other circumstances would have made a good soldier.
He hurried us off to the robing-rooms, and made us put on monastic and priestly garments over our several apparels.

Never, Got wot, had I expected that I should be transformed into a rope-girt praying clerk.

But so it was.

I was given a square black cap and a brown robe, and sent to join the lay brethren.