For my hair grew thick as a mat on top and there was no time to tonsure it.
Now, Dessauer being bald and quite practicable as to his topknot, they endued him with the full dress of a monk.

But at that time I saw not what was done with the Prince.

For my conductor, a laughing, frolicsome lad, came for me and carried me off all in good faith, telling me the while that he hoped we should lodge together.

There were, he whispered, certain very fair and pleasant-spoken maids just over the wall, that which you could climb easily enough by the branches of the pear-tree that grew contiguous at the south corner.
As we hurried towards the chapel, the monks were streaming out of their cells in great consternation, grumbling like soldiers at an unexpected parade.
"What hath gotten into our old man ?" said one.

"Hath he overeaten at mid-day refection, and so is not able to sleep, that he cannot let honest men enjoy greater peace than himself ?" "What folly!" cried another; "as if we had not prayers enough, without cheating the Almighty by knocking him up at uncanonical hours!" "And the choir summoned, and full choral service, no less! Not even a respectable saint's day--no true churchman indeed, but some heretic of a Greek fellow!" quoth a third.
Nevertheless, obediently enough they made their way as the bell clanged, and the throng filed into their places most reverently.